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i heart art (cup and table)
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:06:00 GMT

... color or art to your february, check out some of my favorite sites: seed capsules yes:archive the painting spac e le louvre national portrait gallery uk moma gagosian gallery color and light. inspiration. levity and gravity. all worthwhile. you can lose yourself for hours immersed in beautiful art and then spring will be here before you know it. that's my plan, and i'm...

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The Many Fascinating Faces of History (Word Wenches)
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:03:17 GMT

Cara/Andrea here, One of the things I love about browsing through a museum or gallery exhibit is that serendipitous discovery of some new item or person that adds yet another reason to be fascinated by the past. It’s those tiny colorful threads that make the rich tapestry of history come alive for me, and deepens my appreciation of the human spirit’s creative energy. I recently stumbled...

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Art In Review: On Kawara’s ‘Date Painting(s)’ at David Zwirner Gallery (New York Times)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:54:04 GMT

Canvases that consist of the day, month and year of its making, recorded in simple white sans-serif text on a solid background, make up many of the works on view in On Kawara’s show “Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities,” at the David Zwirner Gallery.

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The history of American gay writers as they emerged from the literary closet (Beattie's Book Blog)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:12:00 GMT

How Gossip Became History: Eminent Outlaws by Christopher Bram The Daily Beast - Brad Gooch From Gore Vidal to Tony Kushner, a new book, ‘Eminent Outlaws’ by Christopher Bram, traces the history of American gay writers as they emerged from the literary closet. Brad Gooch on how gossip became history. Plus, a gallery of the most famous. Once a month or so during the 1970s I had dinner at...

Source : Beattie's Book Blog

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Beautiful, Aesthetic, Erotic (The New York Review of Books)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Richard Dorment The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement by Allen Staley Edward Burne-Jones: The Hidden Humorist by John Christian The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain, 1860–1900 an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum,...

Source : The New York Review of Books

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High Museum to feature folk artist Bill Traylor (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:44:31 GMT

High Museum to feature folk artist Bill Traylor Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 09:56 a.m., Thursday, February 2, 2012 ATLANTA (AP) — A new exhibition set to open at Atlanta's High Museum of Art showcases the work of Bill Traylor, who was born into slavery in Alabama...

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Fresh Mona Liza (Coxsoft Art News)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:18:00 GMT

The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, has unveiled a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa which experts believe was painted in his studio by one of his apprentices, possibly Francesco Melzi. The Prado has owned the painting for many years, but two years ago began preparing it for a da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre. An 18th century black background surrounded the Mona Liza. When this...

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Mona Lisa's perfume - L'âme soeur de la Joconde (1000fragrances)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:39:00 GMT

The most famous painting in the world has a twin. It is a contemporaneous copy of Mona Lisa and has been discovered by conservators at the Prado in Madrid, as it was presented during a symposium at the National Gallery in London during the Da Vinci great retrospective. This painting is considered a copy made by one of Da Vinci's pupils and it mirrors how the original was in...

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London 2012: Olympic Park artist’s take on Seurat masterpiece (The Sport Review)
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:30:02 GMT

An artist working on the Olympic Park has paid tribute to the workers involved in the build-up to London 2012 by recreating his own version of an iconic painting by French post-impressionist Georges Seurat. The National Gallery, which houses the original masterpiece, said that Neville Gabie, the Olympic Park’s artist in residence, had imaginatively reinterpreted [...]

Source : The Sport Review

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BNY Mellon to Bring Largest Touring Exhibition of Andy Warhol’s Pop Art to Asia (Art )
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:51:45 GMT

BNY Mellon to Bring Largest Touring Exhibition of Andy Warhol’s Pop Art to Asia ‘Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal’ exhibition will tour Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo throughout 2012/14 “In the future everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes” – Andy Warhol HONG KONG, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – BNY Mellon is bringing the largest touring collection of...

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"Memories of Mark Twain" (Mail Art Projects)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:41:00 GMT

The Geneva Lake Art Association, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, in conjunction with The Big Read, the National Endowment for the Arts program.... "designed to restore reading to the center of the American Culture"...are seeking Mail Art entries to our Mail Art Exhibition responding to the title and theme of "Memories of Mark Twain". This family-based theme is open to interpretation excluding...

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This week on the Post: French painters... (The Persephone Post)
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:01:00 GMT

This week on the Post: French painters and musicians who, in some indefinable way, have influenced our books. Berthe Morisot (1841-95) showed The Cradle , which hangs at the Musée d'Orsay, at the Impressionist exhibition of 1874 that included work by Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, Monet and Sisley; the painting failed to sell, and stayed in the artist's family until bought by the...

Source : The Persephone Post

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art Explores "Van Gogh Up Close" (Art Knowledge News)
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:07:06 GMT

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is proud to be the only U.S. venue for A major traveling exhibition of work by Vincent van Gogh. "Van Gogh Up Close" will be on view at the museum from February 1st through May 6th. “I … am always obliged to go and gaze at a blade of grass, a pine-tree branch, an ear of wheat, to calm myself,” Vincent van Gogh wrote in a letter to...

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Robert Henri - Cumulus Clouds, East River [1901-02] (Gandalf's Gallery)
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:29:00 GMT

Robert Henri - Cumulus Clouds, East River [1901-02] , a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr. Robert Henri (Cincinnati, Ohio, June 25, 1865 – New York City, July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art. He began teaching at the New York School of Art in 1902, where his students included Joseph Stella, Edward Hopper, Rockwell...

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Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, National Gallery in London: review - Telegraph (Wooooooh's Stream)
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:14:00 GMT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/leonardo-da-vinci/8870754/Leonardo-da-Vinci-Painter-at-the-Court-of-Milan-National-Gallery-in-London-review.html Twitter: @wuhlax

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Is that a cat in a canoe in George Caleb Bingham's 1845 painting "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri?" (bookofjoe)
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:01:00 GMT

Sure looks like it to me. I've seen photos of this painting — in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, hanging in Gallery 758 — before, but only yesterday, when it accompanied Eric Gibson's...

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manchester artists' bonfire 2012 (santiago's dead wasp)
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:41:00 GMT

... a Chinese lantern. Louise Woodcock burned a bear originally intended for Everything's Great! - her exhibition with Jennifer McDonald, Helen Shanahan, and Gary Fisher, opening tomorrow (Saturday 28 January) in Rochdale at 2pm. Wearing a fetching dildo the bear was apparently too explicit for the show. Because it's common knowledge that people who visit art shows in shopping districts...

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Olympic Park artist reinterprets French masterpiece as tribute to London 2012 construction workers (Life inside the London 2012 Olympic Park)
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:31:00 GMT

An artist working on the Olympic Park has paid tribute to the workers building the London 2012 Games by recreating his own version of an iconic painting by French post-impressionist Georges Seurat. The National Gallery, which houses the original masterpiece, expressed that Neville Gabie – the Olympic Park’s artist in residence - had imaginatively reinterpreted the famous ‘Bathers at...

Source : Life inside the London 2012 Olympic Park

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Ford Madox Brown - Parisina's Sleep - Study for Head of Parisina (Pre Raphaelite Art)
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:00:00 GMT

This is one of three studies in the Birmingham collection for the painting 'Parisina's Sleep' (now lost). They were made in 1842 when Brown was living in Paris. The picture was based on a poem of the same name by Byron which tells the tale of Prince Azo who executed his wife, Parisina, after discovering her adulterous affair with his illegitimate son, Hugo. The scene Brown chose to depict...

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Eutelsat Satellite Capacity to Broadcast a High-Definition Walk Through the 'Leonardo Live' Exhibition to Cinemas Across Europe (PR News Wire)
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:58:00 GMT

PARIS, January 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 16, art lovers across Europe will be able to experience LEONARDO LIVE, a satellite-delivered HD presentation of the landmark and sold-out exhibition in London's National Gallery, "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan"....

Source : PR News Wire

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