Monthly Archives: January 2017
Above and beyond realism
The past year has been a period of upheaval for the Cantor Arts Center, with the departure of Executive Director Connie Wolf and the reinstallation of the permanent collection galleries. It seems appropriate, therefore, that the museum ended 2016 on … Continue reading
Autour du Nouveau Réalisme (Celebrating New Realism) – E
Autour du Nouveau Réalisme (Celebrating New Realism) February 3–May 28, 2017 Les Abattoirs 76 Allées Charles de Fitte31300 ToulouseFrance www.lesabattoirs.org The 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) is an opportunity to present for the first time in Toulouse a … Continue reading
Sydney Festival: Push and shove in physical theatre of Still Life
The Greek artist-performer Dimitris Papaioannou is in Paris, propped up in bed having just eaten his breakfast. Given he has spent much of the past two years manhandling what appears to be a gigantic lump of concrete across stages in … Continue reading
A novelist at the fringe of realism
NEW YORK• Emma Tennant, who blended fantasy, science fiction and social satire in dozens of novels that explored the borderland between daylight and dreams, anatomised contemporary Britain and updated the works of Jane Austen and other classic writers in sequels … Continue reading
Finding the Beauty in American Still-Life Painting at the MFAH
Because they’re beautiful. That’s the main reason for most of us to go see the paintings that make up the exhibition “Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection,” now on view at the Museum of … Continue reading
Emma Tennant, Who Wrote Beyond the Fringe of Realism, Dies at 79
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Overlooking the Outback: Australia’s Impressionists
John Russell, In the Morning, Alpes Maritimes from Antibes, 1890-1, Oil on canvas, 60.3 × 73.2 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 1965 © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Australia’s Impressionists, currently on show at the National Gallery, is … Continue reading
Guggenheim Bilbao explores Abstract Expressionism
A Willem De Kooning art work. — AFP picNEW YORK, Jan 30 — February 3 to June 4, 2017, the Spanish outpost of the Guggenheim is paying homage to the artistic movement known as Abstract Expressionism with an exhibition featuring … Continue reading
A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde By Josh Varlin 30 January 2017 A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde, at the Museum of … Continue reading
Scene and Heard: Galas support social culture that embraces artists – Winston
John Wilson, left, Matt Kendrick, Matthew Troy, Kevin Timmons at A Night at the Caberet gala at Old Town Club to benefit Piedmont Wind Symphony Article source: http://www.journalnow.com/community/scene_and_heard/scene-and-heard-galas-support-social-culture-that-embraces-artists/article_e92fe9cc-611e-56c5-b5f9-22286d088c77.html