Michelle Marder Kamhi passed away on April 27, 2025 at the age of 88.
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Posts Archive
Piero and Perspective: Art and Science January 18, 2025
Where I’m Coming From January 6, 2024
Art Education Update August 20, 2022
Honoring America’s Promissory Note July 4, 2022
Debunking Jasper Johns January 31, 2022
Delving into an Incomparable Work of Renaissance Portraiture October 8, 2021
Lessons on Education from Books Our Children Read September 4, 2021
Revisiting Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini “Wedding” Portrait November 17, 2020
Remembering Howard McP. Davis October 20, 2020
Art History Gone Amuck October 2, 2020
Art Critics or Political Agitators/Activists? (redacted) June 27, 2020
The Rehumanization of Public Art January 23, 2020
The Art of Critical Spinning June 4, 2019
Teaching (New) Media Art May 12, 2019
What Semmelweis Taught Me April 14, 2019
Build Kindness not Walls—More Art Ed Nonsense January 30, 2019
My Contrarian View of Contemporary Art December 18, 2018
An Open Letter to the Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art October 5, 2018
Devotion to Drawing August 7, 2018
Old and New Art — Continuity vs. Rupture June 7, 2018
Whither Saudi Art? April 16, 2018
The Truth about Pop Art March 1, 2018
What’s Wrong with Today’s Protest Art? February 11, 2018
A Toilet Is a Toilet Is a Toilet January 27, 2018
Award-Winning Critic Maligns Ayn Rand’s Theory of Art January 16, 2018
Chinese Translation in Progress January 11, 2018
Michelangelo's Humor November 11, 2017
National Arts in Education Week—Should We Celebrate? September 10, 2017
How Not to Teach Art History August 7, 2017
Contemporary Art Worth Knowing June 9, 2017
Fake Art—the Rauschenberg Phenomenon May 24, 2017
Lively NAEA Debate on 'Who Says That’s Art?' March 12, 2017
Valentin Who?—A Neglected French Master Spotlighted at the Met October 19, 2016
“See something, say something” Redux September 23, 2016
How NOT to Be an Arts Advocate September 1, 2016
Healthy Debate in Academia August 3, 2016
Jousting with Mark Rothko’s Son June 22, 2016
Barking Up the Wrong Trees in Art Education May 12, 2016
Met Rooftop Folly: Cornelia Parker’s 'PsychoBarn' April 26, 2016
Kudos for This Student Protest! April 5, 2016
Little Mattress Girl Moves On and Up in the Artworld February 19, 2016
Response to My Stuckist Critics January 9, 2016
“If you see something, say something.” December 7, 2015
An Open Letter to Art Educator Jerome Hausman November 16, 2015
That’s Not What I Wrote October 23, 2015
The Creative Process behind an American Masterpiece—Bingham's 'Fur Traders Descending the Missouri' August 27, 2015
Duchamp or the Baroness?—What Difference Does It Make? August 2, 2015
"Public Art" for Whom? May 5, 2015
Two Exhibitions Worth Praising April 22, 2015
Folded Paper and Other Modern "Drawings" March 31, 2015
About For Piero's Sake March 27, 2015
Is Ai Weiwei an Artist? February 11, 2015
Cy Twombly in Mr. Morgan's House? February 3, 2015
In Memoriam: Lucylee Chiles (1941-2013) December 23, 2014
Slings and Arrows (not the TV variety!) December 11, 2014
Who Says That’s Art? A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts. November 8, 2014