Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
10.9.22

À mon chevet: Adriatic

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À mon chevet is a series of posts featuring a quote from whatever book is on my nightstand at the moment. Great art should affect you phy...
11.7.16

Cool Summer Suggestions

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Summer is upon us in western New England, and baby, it's hot out there! The first thing that comes to my mind is a nice nude swim to coo...
6.7.16

New Paleolithic Sculpture Discovered

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The prehistoric era is a period of art history where major discoveries remain to be made. A paleolithic sculpture has turned up in the cave ...
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24.6.16

Christo's 'Floating Piers'

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As his first solo work after the death of his wife, Jeanne-Claude, Christo has installed The Floating Piers , a floating dock covered with...
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20.6.16

18th-Century Fakes Uncovered

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Le Figaro has knocked the arts and antiquities world for a loop by uncovering a "vast scandal" involving the sale of fake objects...
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30.9.15

Royal Family Memorabilia

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Descendants of Louis-Philippe, the last king of France, are selling a trove of over two hundred objects that belonged to their family, rais...
16.9.15

Fragonard Still Naughty

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The Musée du Luxembourg in Paris is opening an exhibit on Fragonard tomorrow called Fragonard amoureux, galant et libertin . An article by...
28.8.15

Quirinale Boxer *NOT* Coming to Washington

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We are looking forward to an exhibition, Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World , currently at the Getty in Los Angeles...
19.8.15

Stunning Composition: Whistler at the Clark

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As you cross through the roundabout in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and bear right onto South Street, you will notice a long line of cars p...
29.5.15

For Your Consideration: 'Dark Star: HR Gigers Welt'

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Anyone who watched Ridley Scott's space horror film Alien will remember being creeped out by the world it evoked: a hideous alien spe...
6.5.15

Three Years of Cartoons about François Hollande

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(Rémy Molinari) François Hollande has been President of France for three years. Lest you think that all French cartoonists are focused on...
27.4.15

A New Home for American Art -- Whatever It May Be?

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In 1908 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened the Whitney Studio Gallery on West 8th Street, where she also had her own studio, to showcase th...
25.4.15

Le Corbusier and Fascism

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In France it has been customary to sweep the Vichy period under the rug, except when a major cultural figure's connections to that part ...
23.4.15

A Pollock in Venice

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"[It's] a stampede... of every animal in the American West, cows and horses and antelopes and buffaloes. Everything is charging acr...
3.4.15

For Your Consideration: 'Effie Gray'

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The only thing I did not like about Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner , a film that should have been in the running for Best Picture this year, w...
31.3.15

Modern Inroads in Versailles

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Architectural innovation is difficult at Versailles, the town designed by André Le Nôtre as a backdrop for the stage-palace of Louis XIV, bu...
25.12.14

For Your Consideration: 'Mr. Turner'

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Mr. Turner , directed by Mike Leigh, T. Spall Mike Leigh's latest feature, Mr. Turner , made a run for the Palme d'Or at the Can...
27.11.14

Giving Thanks for Shock Art

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Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers! In case you needed any further evidence that shock art is still a thing, there are two maj...
26.11.14

Sabine Weiss, 90, on Photography

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For an exhibit in honor of photographer Sabine Weiss, La Maison européenne de la Photographie asked other photographers to make a photograp...
5.11.14

Things I've Seen Lately

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At the turn of the last century, Louis Vuitton began his career with a novel idea, a steamer trunk for the fashionable and wealthy who were ...