Last Day in New England - Brookdale, New Jersey, United States
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
First Northeast Trip
- add comment
- send to a friend
- Explore : Culture, Museums
Wadsworth Atheneum
+Vote!
+Vote!
False Memories of True Patriots
Walking the Berkshires (Free subscription) | 13/01/2008
In 1786, American artist Jonathan Trumbull painted "The Death of General Montgomery in Attack on Quebec, December 31 1775". The original is now in the Yale Art Gallery, with what is evidently a later copy in Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. The...
- add comment
- send to a friend
- Explore : Components, Culture, Memory, Museums, Painting, Patriot, Quebec
+Vote!
The Great Collection
idle speculations (Free subscription) | 27/11/2007
Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765) Interior of a Picture Gallery with the Collection of Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga 1740 Wadsworth Atheneum Art Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut Giovanni Paolo Panini was one of the leading painters of vedute , or topographical views, in Rome during the eighteenth century. His views of modern Rome, as well as his capricci based on the better-known ruins, had an enormous...
- add comment
- send to a friend
- Explore : Culture, Museums, Painting, Rome
+Vote!
Mir solves painting myth-teries
Connecticut Art Scene (Free subscription) | 06/10/2007
Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main St., Hartford, (860) 278-2670 Christopher Mir: Dreams, Memories, Reflections Oct. 4, 2007—Jan. 6, 2008 There was a good crowd for Chris Mir 's opening talk Thursday night in the MATRIX 157 Gallery at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Dreams, Memories, Reflections is Mir's first solo museum show; he has had several solo gallery shows. Mir spoke off the cuff about his artistic practice,...
- add comment
- send to a friend
- Explore : Culture, Museums
+Vote!
Friedrich Petzel Gallery (537 West 22nd): Thomas Eggerer, The Call of the Wind
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 04/10/2007
Friedrich Petzel Gallery (537 West 22nd) 537 West 22nd Street, 212-680-9467 Chelsea October 5 - November 10, 2007 Opening: Friday, October 5, 6 - 8PM Web Site Thomas Eggerer [1] This poem is based upon the words of Thomas Eggerer whom I recorded speaking about his painting, Thomas Eggerer lives and works in New York. His work has been shown internationally and has been the subject of a recent solo...
- add comment
- send to a friend
- Explore : Culture, Painting
+Vote!
Christopher Mir painting show opening at Wadsworth
Connecticut Art Scene (Free subscription) | 01/10/2007
Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main St., Hartford, (860) 278-2670 Christopher Mir: Dreams, Memories, Reflections Oct. 4, 2007—Jan. 6, 2008 Opening reception Thurs., Oct. 4, 5—8 p.m. Hamden-based painter Christopher Mir has had a few solo gallery shows the past few years in New York. And he has had work included in group shows, including the 2001 Emerging Artists Exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary...
- add comment
- send to a friend
- Explore : Culture, Museums
+Vote!
Thursday night opening at Wadsworth Atheneum
Connecticut Art Scene (Free subscription) | 27/09/2007
Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main St., Hartford, (860) 278-2670 again: serial practices in contemporary art Sept. 22—Dec. 30, 2007 Opening reception Thurs., Sept. 27, 7 p.m. Press release A 2004 major gift from celebrated art collector Mickey Cartin has inspired a new exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. A selection from the 125 contemporary photographs gifted to the Atheneum will be on exhibit...
- add comment
- send to a friend
- Explore : Culture, Edward Burtynsky, Museums, Photographers
+Vote!
The Feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi
Catholic Fire (Free subscription) | 17/09/2007
St. Francis in Ecstasy CARAVAGGIO c. 1595 Oil on canvas Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford, Connecticut The Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi In the year 1224 as he was rapt in deep contemplation on Mt. Alverna Christ the Lord by a stupendous miracle imprinted the marks of his passion on the saint's body. ~Taken from the Proper Offices of Franciscan Saints Prayer Almighty God, You renewed the marks of the...
- add comment
- send to a friend
- Explore : Culture, Museums
+Vote!
Chemistry puts the color back in art
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 21/04/2007
A special cadre of chemists can turn back the clock on cultural treasures, rescuing masterpieces from the deterioration that builds up over centuries.
