Tag: art

Italy Day 4: A private Vatican tour and elegant dinner

We woke up a bit earlier than normal this morning because we needed to be at the entrance to the Vatican Museums at 09:30 for our private tour of the Vatican. This particular tour company (run by a wonderful woman named Livia) was absolutely a pleasure to work with, and our tour guide, Claudia, couldn’t …

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Graduating Class – The New Yorker – 30 May 2016

Today I saw the cover of the 30 May 2016 edition of The New Yorker, which was designed by artist R. Kikuo Johnson, and it really hit home for me. The illustration depicts the graduating class of 2016 walking out of their commencement ceremony whilst a member of the 2015 graduating class is working as …

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2012 Google Doodle winner – Dylan Hoffman

If you used Google at all today, you undoubtedly noticed the awesome logo featured above the search box. Today’s art was the work of second grader Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, WI, United States. He was the winner of the 2012 Google Doodle contest, in which there were over 100,000 entrants! Not only did he earn …

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