PARIS
(AP).- Edvard Munch plumbed the depths of humanity's anguish with
"The Scream," but that iconic painting is but a moment in the life of the
Norwegian artist. A Paris exhibit — entitled the "The Anti-Scream" — looks at
another Munch, whose experiments, including subjecting his works to
rain or snow or scratching through the canvas, reveal a complex artist who
surpassed his inner torment to cut a path into modernity. On exhibition
through 18 July at the Pinacotheque in
Paris. ...
PARIS (AP).- Edvard Munch plumbed the depths of humanity's anguish with "The Scream," but that iconic painting is but a moment in the life of the Norwegian artist. A Paris exhibit ? entitled the "The Anti-Scream" ? looks at another Munch, whose experiments, including subjecting his works to rain or snow or scratching through the canvas, reveal a complex artist who surpassed his inner torment to cut a path into modernity. The exhibit of more than 170 paintings, lithographs...
New York, NY - The Frick presents a special
exhibition of loans from Dulwich Picture Gallery, one of the major collections of Old Master paintings in the world.
Heralding the London museum’s bicentenary
in 2011, the exhibition will introduce American audiences to this institution’s
holdings and history through nine of its most important and best-loved
works.Indeed, Masterpieces of European Painting from
Dulwich Picture Gallery, to be shown exclusively at the Frick from March 9
through Ma...
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LONDON.- On Tuesday, 30 March, 2010 Sotheby’s
London will offer a range of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints.
Printmaking has been at the heart of artistic production for over 500 years. The
spring sale will present an exciting opportunity to acquire works by a group of
important Old Master artists such as Rembrandt, Dürer and Goya. The
sale also demonstrates the importance of the medium to later artists with
examples by Modern and Contemporary printmakers, including Joan Miró, P...
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-- Cold case: The FBI is hoping advances in DNA analysis will help it catch the art thieves responsible for the 1990 super-heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. (Boston Globe)
--Drama award: Santa Monica writer Julia Cho's "The Language Archive" has won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which is given to the best new English-language play written by a woman. (Los Angeles Times)--Legal action: The son of photographer Ansel Adams has filed suit to stop the now-close...
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FRANKFURT.- When the Botticelli exhibition closed
its doors on Sunday, 28 February, altogether 367,033 visitors had seen the
presentation on the Florentine Renaissance artist. “Botticelli” was thus by far
the most successful show in the Städel’s history. Previously, the exhibitions at
this museum with the highest visitor numbers were “Rembrandt Rembrandt” (2003)
with 245,000 visitors and “Cranach the Elder” (2007/08) with 205,000.
With its daily average of more than 3,920, the Botticelli ...
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What is an American? Today, as the 20th century -- the so-called "American Century" -- recedes in memory, the question can seem immodest or even grandiose. If we don't know now, after decades wielding almost unimaginable superpower status around the globe, will we ever?
Still, there's another way to look at it. The question arises anew because of the conflicted place in which the United States finds itself today.
With the national nervous breakdown unleashed by the 9/11 terro...
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FERRARA, ITALY - The spring exhibition at the Palazzo dei Diamanti presents the engravings of Giorgio Morandi with a collection of over 130 works made by the artist over the course of his career. From Dürer to Parmigianino, from Rembrandt to Piranesi, from Goya to Picasso; the history of etching is an important chapter in the history of art. For Morandi, this was true. He regarded etching as an medium of artistic expression on par with oil painting at a time, which was only a century ag...
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EDINBURGH.- A collection of iconic prints, by some of
the finest European artists of the past 500 years, will be on show at the
National Gallery of Scotland this spring. "The Printmaker’s Art"
will highlight the enormous skill of artists such as Rembrandt, Piranesi,
Hogarth, Manet and Whistler, and will include some of the most beautiful
and accomplished prints ever made. On view 20 February through 23
May, 2010. ...
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ICA, LondonPunk's not dead, and neither is skiffle in the quaintly timeless art of Billy Childish. A more appropriate moniker might be Billy Perpetual Adolescent for a man who seems stuck in the depressions and self-pity of his teenage years. A placard on which he's written a kind of manifesto for Childishness paints a picture of a genuinely miserable existence, a scenario for the devil's sitcom.And yet his music, playing nearby, is likable stuff, and so are the record sleeves te...
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Published 19-Feb-10
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