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Posting about exhibitions, museums, and objects Posts by: Christa and @jsntlr.com We create software for museums, collectors, and artists objectsandorder.com EXH.CAT is our exhibitions database

View of an object page in a digital exhibition. The image, at left, is of a color lithograph of a large brown tabby cat reclining on a salmon-colored pillow. On the right is object information and placeholder label text: Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923) 1909 Lithograph in 6 colors (red, ochre, yellow, black, gray-brown, brown) from two stones, with scraping on stone The Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection Lorem ipsum felis domesticus, consectetur adipiscing vibrissae et feles purrata magnificat. Miau miau in sole dormiens gaudium sit amet, sed do eiusmod tempurr incididunt ut ludere et saltare felinus amore tuna magna aliqua. Ut enim ad maximum saltus super fenestram, quis nostrud exercitation novem vitae felix nisi ut nutrire ex ea capsa chartaria benignus. Duis aute gratia nepeta cataria in delectare plantae pedum voluptate velit esse calidus somnium sub tecto eu contentus omnia pariatur striatus maculosus.
Hand-colored satirical print depicting a comically crowded exhibition gallery filled with elaborately dressed visitors. Women wear enormous, plumed hats and voluminous colorful gowns. Visitors press closely together trying to view paintings hung salon-style. Open Access image: William Heath ("Paul Pry"), We Have the Exhibition to Examine, 1827–29, hand-colored etching. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967
Home page of a digital exhibition entitled Meow What? Cats in Prints. There are three items in the site menu at upper right: Sections, Object List, and About. The page also features a print of a monumental tabby cat (Cornelis Visscher, The Large Cat, ca. 1657, engraving. National Gallery of Art).
Video showing the process of making a shrinkable plastic reproduction of Albrecht Dürer’s Rhinoceros in 7 steps. Step 1: Find a high quality, public domain image. Woodcuts work well. Step 2: Crop as desired, scale the image, and then flip it horizontally. Scale the image to the size of the plastic sheet(s). I decided to use 2 sheets for this (each 5 x 4 in.). My scaled image is 5 x 6.99 in. Step 3: Print the image and secure it to a surface. I printed in blue and used a watercolor block and artist tape. Step 4: Secure your plastic sheet(s) (rough side up) in place over your image with the tape. Step 5: Start tracing. I used a black pen (.38 mm). Step 6: When finished, remove the plastic sheet(s) and bake per shrinkable plastic instructions. Step 7: Document your tiny new object. I added this work to my “Plastic Prints Collection.”
List of 10 exhibitions currently on view in the US: Beyond the Object: Women in Abstraction Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA Bold Women Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS Capturing Her Environment: Women Artists, 1870–1930 Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Modern Women: Visionary Artists New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Southern Modern Women Artists Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Women at War North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND Women in Focus Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
View of a gridded group of photos of 12 egg-related objects: 1) James Sowerby, A Bird's Egg, n.d., watercolor over graphite. Yale Center for British Art; 2) "Baby in Egg" Still Bank, early 20th century, lead, pigment. Minneapolis Institute of Art; 3) Denis Martinot (designer), attributed to Theodor de Bry (decoration), Engraved Egg Watch, 1590–1600, silver, steel, and rock crystal. The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4) Attributed to Peter Carl Fabergé and House of Fabergé, Lapis Lazuli Easter Egg, ca. 1885–90, gold, enamel, lapis lazuli, pearls, diamonds, rubies. The Cleveland Museum of Art; 5) William Blake, At Length for Hatching Ripe He Breaks the Shell, 1793, etching and engraving. From For Children: The Gates of Paradise, pl. 8. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; 7) Ira Blount, Handmade Wooden Egg, 1992, wood. Anacostia Community Museum, Gift of Ira Blount 8) Paul Wolff, Egg in Cup, ca. 1930, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Digital image courtesy of Getty’s Open Content Program; 9) Egg, 1865, colored egg. The Art Institute of Chicago; 10) Odilon Redon, The Egg, 1885, lithograph. The Art Institute of Chicago 11) Netsuke of Bird in an Egg, 19th century, ivory. The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and 12) Egg, late 18th–early 19th century, glass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Five sample search results for a search for "Your Favorite Museum" in the EXH.CAT exhibitions database. Results include a future exhibition, a current exhibition, an exhibition that's about to close, a digital exhibition, and a past exhibition.
The French artist Maurice Quentin De La Tour points at a portrait of his glasses-wearing cat on an easel.