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Art historian Jeff Wassmann surveys the era of the pioneering, if apocryphal, Leipzig modernist and sewerage engineer Johann Dieter Wassmann (1841-1898).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Dieter_Wassmann
… and of course, the Bauhaus Museum Weimar café.
October 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Van Gogh and the End of Nature
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September 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Kelly’s Marina, Brighton, Oregon.
August 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Attributed: Frederick Alexcee (1854-1944), txaldzap'am nagyeda laxa (carved wooden angel), baptismal font, 1886. Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
August 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A couple of Arthur Erickson’s fabulous buildings in Vancouver: the MacMillan Bloedel, 1968 and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, 1976, inspired by the post-and-beam architecture of the northern Northwest Coast First Nations people.
August 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
June 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM