Category: Art

Women crucified in art, also comes to mind when this artist shares her life situation along with a popularity contest between her "Super Girl" painting and her painting of "Venus - Goddess of Love."

We question if Barbara Wurden is painting "women crucified in art" instead of "warrior angel art" with her passionately narrated canvases. She calls them "video diaries" and it's where she shares her current life situation as she summons the goddesses for assistance through this art form.

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"Venus - Goddess of Love"

National publicity expands for Austin metaphysical artist Mickie Bellah. Bellah’s oil paintings and art can be found in four recent publications.

Metaphysical artist Mickie Bellah's oil paintings are continuing to gain national recognition. First, Mystic Pop Magazine featured her art in an extensive article in the November/December issue. Then Innerchange, a magazine about mindful living, selected "Purple-2" from Bellah's new Luminescence series for the cover of its December/January issue, on newsstands and online now.

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"Purple" by Mickie Bellah

Whatever the purpose of an inscription, when writing appeared on ancient Greek pottery, it became performance art.

A "communication explosion" in the early days of the Greek alphabet brought both writing and figure scenes onto pottery in the eighth century B.C.E. Whatever the purpose of an inscription, when writing appeared on ancient Greek pottery, it became performance art.

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Alexandra Pappas, assistant professor, classics,University of Arkansas

It used to be good to be "banned in Boston." Before the 1950s, publishers used to rush their adult themed books to Beantown, hoping to be able to plaster a coveted "banned in Boston" logo on the cover before releasing the book nationwide. By the 1960s, producers of movies and Broadway-bound shows often worked hard to get their work banned, because being "banned in Boston" meant increased box office receipts elsewhere.