Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Heritage Key (Helen Atkinson) With three photos. People were just as silly 4,000 thousand years ago as they are now, but they manifested it in different ways, of course, which is what makes it interesting. The Ancient Egyptians, for example, had a well-known obsession with how to get ahead in the afterlife, and the wealthier citizens and royalty poured a lot of money, time, and thought into the items...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts closes the 2009 exhibition year and welcomes the new with Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on view in the Ingram Gallery from Oct. 2, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Featuring 45 paintings and eight photographs by such American masters as Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles...
Illicit Cultural Property (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
At the ARCA Conference in Amelia back in July, Francesco Rutelli gave a very interesting talk elaborating in some detail on the wave of repatriations from many museums to Italy; and of course this resulted in many North American museums and even a collector returned works of art to Italy. The Met, the MFA Boston, the Getty, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Princeton University, and Shelby White have all...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Titian�s 'Rape of Europa' is part of the Isabella Stewart Gardner�s permanent collection. At the MFA Boston, view the temporary exhibition of Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese.
Art Weekly (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
oil on canvas Number twelve is a square divided by six. Two trees make a diagonal; the center two colors are lighter than the rest. There are subtle textures between the sections. Some people prefer directly observed landscapes/pictures compared to invented and vice versa, but both are informed by everything I see and have seen. The Red Window Sill makes me thing of the game Mastermind which I recently...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
1.) Over 60 percent of Williams College students take an art/art history class. 2.) WCMA might consider re-photographing this van der Hamen still-life , because it's really quite exceptional. 3.) The only museums I visited all week that did not have a Sol LeWitt wall-drawing on view were (I think...) the under-construction MFA Boston and the Clark. WCMA's is right in its lobby, in its staircase. Typically...
Selectism.com (Free subscription) | 27/05/2009
Harnessing the grand tradition of print making in Mexico, modernist artists gravitated to the graphic arts as a way to explore indigenous and pre-Hispanic past. Vida Y Drama presents a concise selection of work produced between 1926 and 1932 by Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Together these men defined [...] This article originally appeared on Selectism.com...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 15/03/2009
BOSTON, MA.- Amidst high drama and intense rivalry, the great triumvirate—Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese—dominated the landscape of Venetian painting in the 16th century for almost four decades, propelling the Venetian School to new creative heights. This dynamic relationship has been recreated in Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, the first
Supreme Fiction (Free subscription) | 13/03/2009
Titian, Supper at Emmaus, 1533-43 ART & ANTIQUES March 2009 Pictures at an Exhibition by James Panero Behind the scenes at the MFA Boston's Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese As the march 15 opening approaches for his exhibition “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals...
Slog (Free subscription) | 24/12/2008
This weird, off-scale Tintoretto nativity scene (imagine how huge Mary and Anne would be if they stood up!) in fact used to be a crucifixion— Tintoretto cut up an old death scene and reworked it into a birth , according to a brand new discovery by the conservators at the MFA Boston . And please enjoy "Naughty Nativity" news here .
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
I hear that the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is hiring the MFA Boston's Thomas Rassieur as its new prints and drawings curator. Rassieur as recently curated high-profile shows on Rembrandt and early 20thC British prints. This is on top of a number of other high-profile MIA hires, including OCMA's Elizabeth Armstrong to run contemporary art. The MIA has a dedicated source of local government funding....
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Suddenly it's not just art made by artists that's hot, it's stuff collected (and installed) by artists that's hot. First example: Francis Alys' Fabiola paintings , which are on view now at LACMA. Also on view now: Rachel Whiteread's dollhouses (left), at the MFA Boston. Other artist-collections-o'-stuff that come to mind: Andy Warhol's time capsules (the Warhol Museum put Time Capsule 21 online),...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), recently acquired three paintings by leading African-American artists of the 20th century at the African-American Fine Art Sale at Swann Auctions (NY): Untitled (about 1960–64) by Norman Lewis; The Juggler #1 (about 1964) by Hughie Lee-Smith; and 715 Washington Street (1947), by Walter Simon. The MFA purchased the Lewis for
Eye Level (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Alex Katz's Black Scarf Eric Widing, head of the American Paintings and Sculpture Department for Christie's since 1998, kicked off the 2008 Collector's Roundtable series with his talk, "Buying at Auction," offering us a capsule of his years in the...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
BOSTON, MA.- Ashurnasirpal II, Assyria's self-proclaimed “great king, mighty king, king of the universe,” invited 70,000 guests to a 10-day housewarming party in 860 BC to show off his impressive new home at Kalhu. Constructed on 900 acres in northern Assyria—now modern-day Iraq—it was the most magnificent palace the ancient Near East had ever seen. Almost three
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