Paul Klee's Birthday, 2012 Culture Quiz, 'Beast Jesus' On EBay And More!

December 18, 2012 Subscribe · Forward Happy Birthday, Paul Klee! Today is the birthday of Swiss-German painter, Paul Klee. The expressionist artist and Bauhaus professor would turn 133 years old if he were still magically alive.  Continue reading... Test Your Knowledge Of 2012 Arts&Culture Incredible Images Of Tornadoes 'Beast Jesus' Artist Sells Big On EBay Body Painting: 19th Century Masterpieces Painted On The Human Form (PHOTOS) Attic Owl Painting Sells For Nearly $1 Million At Christie's Victorian Art Sale (PHOTO) Best Art Books Of 2012: Our List Of The Year's 50 Greatest Creative Publications (PHOTOS) Body Painting: 19th Century Masterpieces Painted On The Human Form (PHOTOS) Attic Owl Painting Sells For Nearly $1 Million At Christie's Victorian Art Sale (PHOTO) Attic Owl Painting Sells For Nearly $1 Million At Christie's Victorian Art Sale (PHOTO) Body Painting: 19th Century Masterpieces Painted On The Human Form (PHOTOS) Best Art Books Of 2012: Our List Of The Year's 50 Greatest Creative Publications (PHOTOS) MICHAEL KAISER What I Want for Christmas I do hope we can bring together managers, musicians and board members from orchestras large and small and begin a coherent, comprehensive, solution-focused discussion on how we are going to maintain and build this vital sector of the arts ecology Continue reading... HILARY HARKNESS Fiber Arts Shine as Public Art Making things out of yarn used to be the realm of grannies, but fiber arts have evolved in the past few decades into a cutting-edge discipline. Continue reading... BRIAN GLENNEY, PHD More Powerful Than Words The current handicap symbol is not a symbol that represents people, or even "access," to my mind. The figure's arms and legs are drawn like mechanical parts and its entire look is one that makes the chair, not the person, important and visible. Something is really wrong here. Continue reading... BETHANNE PATRICK Reading Through A new week begins and a nation mourns, as nations have done since the dawn of time: Wherever humans gather, there will at some point be tragedy. Continue reading... FERN SIEGEL Stage Door: Golden Boy, Glengarry Glen Ross Golden Boy is a knockout. It's a magnificent exploration of what it means to be an American and how we define success. Set in a lower-class New York neighborhood in 1936, it tells the story of Joe Bonaparte. Like an earlier Bonaparte, he, too, wants to be king of the world. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.