Joseph Kellard

1 week ago | shorturl.at | Joseph Kellard |Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design Martin KempV&A Publications (2006)This catalog for a 2006 exhibit explores da Vinci's thinking processes through his notebooks, where he concretized ideas on paper. It’s among the best books I’ve found on his integrative methodology. "Drawing served as the primary tool of analysis and as the most potent way to demonstrate the essential unity of all things designed by nature," writes author Martin Kemp. (p.

3 weeks ago | shorturl.at | Joseph Kellard |In ART |Da Vinci

Leonardo by Leonardo Martin Kemp Callaway (2019)In his first book devoted exclusively to the paintings, Martin Kemp delivers a volume rich with the information and insights expected of a top da Vinci scholar. Kemp analyzes each work with a skillful balance between compelling origin stories, debatable attributions and ambiguous provenances, along with da Vinci’s incorporation of keen observations of nature and profound scientific findings into his art.

2 months ago | shorturl.at | Joseph Kellard

Last summer, I visited Prospect Park in Brooklyn for the first time in decades, photographing the zoo's animals and walking through neighboring areas: Grand Army Plaza and Park Slope. I also stopped by the Brooklyn Museum of Art to finally see a pair of statues flanking its entrance: Manhattan and Brooklyn, by my favorite American sculptor, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931). Capturing these allegorical female figures had long been on my bucket list.

Mar 10, 2025 | kellardmedia.com | Joseph Kellard

“Take me to that large fountain in the middle of the city,” I told a cab driver parked outside my hotel during a weekend trip to Philadelphia last summer. The day before, I spotted the fountain from a taxi, my refuge from the unforgiving June sun, humidity and temps flirting with triple digits, en route from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to a Marriott downtown.

Feb 13, 2025 | shorturl.at | Joseph Kellard

My favorite 16 photos I snapped in Central Park last fall capture diverse scenes and people: a geisha posing gracefully for pictures, Schiller's bust framed by blazing autumn leaves, sleek Billionaires Row skyscrapers looming above Wollman ice rink, a woman crafting poems on her vintage typewriter, and musicians making melodies on wind and string instruments.