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Category: Art

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This Week: Aluminum Powder Masterpieces and the Etch A Sketch Pop Art Movement

  • by Todd Coopee
  • Posted on January 18, 2021

Invented by the late French inventor, André Cassagnes, Etch A Sketch was launched by Ohio…

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Digital Resources from The Strong’s Women in Games Initiative

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 25, 2020October 27, 2020

Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ralph Baer, Jordan Mechner, Will Wright, Hideo Kojima, John Romero. These…

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Cute as Button

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on August 14, 2020December 22, 2020

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by buttons. Often small…

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Activity Sets: Playing with Glass, Foil, Plastic, and Goop

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 3, 2020June 4, 2020

Spending most of my time at home with my young children has revealed that I’m…

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Down the Rabbit Hole

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 15, 2020June 4, 2020

Working at The Strong museum sometimes involves surprises—of the good kind. That was the case…

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Collection of Street Photographer Martha Cooper

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on February 28, 2020

The Strong recently acquired the photographica collection of world-renowned photojournalist Martha Cooper. Kodakgirl, the nickname…

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  • Art

A $91 Million Toy; How’s that for a Hot Price Point?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 22, 2019

Take a look at the sculpture depicted above. That 3-foot "Rabbit is by the artist,…

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Competitive Hobby Horse, Yes There Is Such a Thing

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 1, 2019

Hobby Horses date back to the middle ages so maybe this is the moment the…

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  • Art

The Artist, Pieter Brueghel’s “Children’s Games (1560 AD)

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 25, 2019

I recently came across this wonderful painting by Pieter Brueghel entitled "Children's Games" (in order…

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  • Art

Those Colorful Crayons

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on December 6, 2018

Think of the ubiquitous crayon—generally a three-inch-long, likely worn down (or possibly broken!) waxy object.…

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Finding Nemo? No, Not That One…”Nemo in Slumberland”

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on November 5, 2018

One of the great comic strip illustrators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

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Russia’s Wooden Toys; A Little History

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on July 13, 2018

Erastus Corning was nice enough to give us some of his insights on traditional Russian…

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Toyetic Robots in Art

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 16, 2018

I love toy robots and I love art so I thought it would be fun…

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  • Art

Art + Toys = Art-Toys?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 17, 2018

Plastic was invented in the late 19th century, but not until after World War II…

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The Frida Kahlo Barbie Doll and the Importance of Eyebrows

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 14, 2018

I love it when Mattel steps out and takes Barbie into edgy territory. A few…

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