Art History at Canisius University

08/26/2026

Check out the amazing exhibit proposals created by my students in ANZ 535 Framing the Animal this summer. They are on view in the Peter A. and Mary Lou Vogt Student Art gallery on the second floor of the Student Center. Canisius University

08/20/2026

If we had a bazillion dollars…

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FWoHuc2T3/?mibextid=wwXIfr

This September and October, Bonhams is selling items from one of the most extensive private collections of cat-related artworks, decorative objects, jewelry, and collectibles: the Sandy Lerner Cat Collection.⁠
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Lerner, co-founder of tech company Cisco Systems and founder of cosmetics label Urban Decay, has been collecting feline-related objects, which she calls “caticons,” for more than 40-year years. She attributes her idea for creating the collection to being “forced to be catless,” due to her then-husband’s allergies. In a statement, Lerner said she had personally chosen every object in the collection, but “they need to be rehomed, now, to others who will care for, cherish, and respect them as icons of the human achievement and – in the case of the caticons – affection that created them.”⁠
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The fall sale, which features 1,000 lots (not all cat-focused), will take place in four parts in New York and Massachusetts.⁠
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Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sandy-lerner-cat-themed-art-collection-auctioned-bonhams-1234795289/

08/13/2026

We study other self portraits by Paula Modersohn-Becker in FAH 481Art of the Selfie - I’d love to include this one too!

Now on view! Neue Galerie New York and The Museum of Modern Art jointly own Paula Modersohn-Becker’s iconic “Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand” (1907), which is now on view at MoMA in “Collection: 1880-1950.” In this emblematic self-portrait, the artist stares out at the viewer with a steady gaze. She holds two flowers, symbols of fertility, in her left hand. Her right hand rests on her pregnant belly. This would be one of her last paintings. The same year she completed it, she died of complications just 20 days after giving birth to a daughter. She was 31 years old.

Plan your visit at
moma.org ✨

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand,” 1907, oil on canvas. Jointly owned by The Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Debra and Leon Black, and Neue Galerie New York, Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. Conservation was made possible by the Bank of America Art Conservation Project

08/07/2026

We visit this historic space in FAH 271 Art in Buffalo, and it is a critical component to our region’s history. Thank you Senator Schumer, for urging the NPS to send the much-needed operating funds!!

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer released an open letter Friday to Acting National Park Service Director Jessica Bowron, calling on NPS to release operating funds to Buffalo's Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site.

Site Superintendent Spencer Morgan told BTPM News earlier this week that the site was the only national park in the country that has yet to receive operating support for 2026.

Schumer cited BTPM News' reporting in pushing for the release of funds.

"If the site does not receive these funds by the end of September, it risks being unable to cover its bills and meet payroll, threatening not only the continued operation of the site and employment of the staff, but also public access to one of New York’s, and the nation’s, treasured historical sites," he wrote.

Read more at the link below.

07/01/2026

This is incredible! Thanks to the National Gallery for a stunning look into the past!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaNRSbJHTlj/?igsh=Y21hZG1iOXBvbXJ2

06/25/2026

The magic of happenstance! Visit CEPA Gallery to enjoy these beautiful photographs!

06/12/2026

We marvel at his work and insight into the processes taken by artists to record their lives and world.

The Yorkshire-born maestro had been a cultural star to reckon with, and a pioneer of new figurative formats, since making headlines at the New Contemporaries exhibition in London in 1961

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/12/david-hockney-an-artist-of-brio-and-versatility-with-global-recognition-beyond-the-art-world-has-died-aged-88

06/06/2026

Wow!! That will be a mighty undertaking! Challenge Accepted!

Lego has unveiled its biggest set yet— a 12,060-piece Sagrada Familia model that stands two feet tall and is designed to let light pass through it like real stained-glass windows: http://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/lego-biggest-set-sagrada-familia-12000-pieces/507-374c8a44-e239-46ec-9871-d38d8c8825fa?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WGRZ_-_Channel_2,_Buffalo