Jamie Malanowski

Art

CIVIC VIRTUE?

There is an article in the Times today by Sarah Maslin Nir about “Civic Virtue,” am immense marble sculpture by Frederick MacMonnies. First unveiled in 1922 in City Hall Park, the statue, depicts a broad-chested nude man representing Virtue standing above two vanquished naked women representing Vice. From the beginning the statue, whose main, triumphant …

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MORT KUNSTLER

It’s rare to get a phone call from a fan; it’s totally unprecedented when the caller is Mort Kunstler, one of the premier artists of Civil War themes, and one of the premier illustrators of his era. Kunstler has been reading the Disunion series in the Times, and much to my delight, offered me a …

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AWESOME!

On a visit to National Geographic‘s website, I found this incredible photograph of volcanic lightning taken by Italian photographer and scientist Marco Fulle as flew over Iceland’s erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano last April. Who could imagine such terrible beauty?