Did anyone catch the recent Newsweek cover? The magazine features Italian artist, Lorenzo Petrantoni, and his trademark collage technique that integrates typefaces and illustrations in the style of early 19th-century signage and advertising combined with modern symbols, icons and what appears to be that decorative scrolly stuff straight out of Microsoft's Wingdings.

President-elect Barack Obama is front and center, arms crossed, exuding confidence, with the words, "The New...

THE RAPE OF EUROPA tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and World War II.

In a journey through seven countries, the film takes viewers into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe.

Kansas Impressions
October 3 - November 14, 2008

Kansas Impressions

This exhibit honors Beth Skoog, and celebrates some of the first artists in Topeka who worked in European traditions. As we were planning the exhibit, Beth's husband, Ralph Skoog, asked "Wouldn't it be great for people to know that we've had really good artists in Topeka for a hundred years, that the artists who are working now aren't a new thing?" The Alice C. Sabatini Gallery is proud to...

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April 4 – May 16, 2008
Cotter Hirschberg Room
Sabatini Gallery 

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Art at the Library

This exhibit traces the history of art collecting at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, shows examples of some of the first purchases and display spaces, and underscores the visionary role the Library has played, since its conception, in valuing art and arts education in a public library context. Curator: Zan Popp

On this out-of-nowhere snowy day (it was a completely different season 24 hours ago), I thought it would be fun to look at some famous winter scenes throughout art history, all of which can be found in the 700s here at TSCPL.

The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1413—16 AD) is often referred to as "the king of illuminated manuscripts". Commissioned by Jean, Duc de Berry, one of the highest nobles in 15th-century France, it was painted by the Limbourg Brothers from Flanders (now Germany) and is a classic example of a Medieval book of hours. The image on the left, February, is from the calendar section and represents winter in a peasant village. The inhabitants of a farm are shown warming themselves by the fire, while in the background, daily life—cutting wood, taking cattle to market—goes on as normal. Much has changed in 650 years but I bet if you looked outside right now you'll see some things are just the same.