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Art Exhibits
Monday 15 February 2010
PAINTING INSPIRED BY THEATRE: TWO HUNDRED WORKS AT THE MART IN ROVERETO
Painting Inspired By Theatre: Two Hundred Works At The Mart In Rovereto
Theatre and stage as the keys of interpretation to narrate in a new and curious way the course of painting towards modernity. This is the vision of the exhibition From stage to painting. The magic of theatre in 19th-century ...
by Elena Lanzanova
Flashnews
Thursday 4 February 2010
Met Museum Investments Fall, Deficit Widens To Record
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art shed 14 percent of its staff in the year ending in June amid a record operating deficit. At least 250 employees were fired or took buyouts as the museum reported that its investments declined ...
by arcadja
Work of the Week
Thursday 28 January 2010
VISITOR TRIPS OVER AND DAMAGES PABLO PICASSO’S WORK ‘THE ACTOR’
Visitor Trips Over And Damages Pablo Picasso’S Work ‘the Actor’
A curious mishap for a famous painting by Picasso, The actor, displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A visitor – the woman was part of a group enrolled in a school for ...
by arcadja
Art News
Tuesday 21 April 2009
THE NEW ANTI-CRISIS STRATEGIES OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS
The New Anti-Crisis Strategies Of American Museums
No fear for the museums in crisis. On rainy days even the roles of places of art and of who attends them can be reviewed and inverted: according to the New York Times, this is what many American ...
by Silvia Bosi
Flashnews
Monday 30 March 2009
Louvre’s 8.5 Million Visitors Keep It As No.1 Museum Worldwide
The Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London were the world’s most visited museums last year, drawing 8.5 million and 5.93 million people respectively, the Art Newspaper said in an annual ranking. The Louvre was also in first ...
by arcadja
Flashnews
Monday 23 March 2009
Arts Guide: Exhibits In Italy
The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's top art exhibitions: AREZZO - Museo Statale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna: 130 works by Renaissance master terracotta-making Della Robbia family and contemporaries like Donatello and Ghiberti; plus five itineraries around ...
by arcadja
Flashnews
Friday 13 March 2009
Metropolitan Museum Cuts Staff, Closes Shops As Visitors Drop
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said it’s cutting 10 percent of its staff, about 250 jobs, as its endowment and gift-shop revenue shrink. The museum also said yesterday that it’s firing 74 retail workers immediately and closing seven of its ...
by arcadja
Flashnews
Tuesday 16 December 2008
Brooklyn Museum’s Costume Treasures Going To The Met
After three years of negotiations, the financially strained Brooklyn Museum has arranged to transfer its rich collection of American and European costumes and accessories to the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that it can be properly cared for and exhibited. ...
by arcadja
Flashnews
Thursday 4 December 2008
A Multicultural Swift Of Africa, The Americas And Even Outer Space
It is said that multiculturalism won the 2008 presidential election. So why does contemporary art in New York feel so unicultural these days? A decade ago exhibitions linking Africa and the Americas were not uncommon. They are now, though, which ...
by arcadja
Flashnews
Monday 24 November 2008
Silver Girdle, Lifted Skirts Reveal Love, Rennaissance-Style
It’s wonderful to see Cupid’s arrow hit home. Even better to watch Venus disrobe. So it goes this holiday season at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its new exhibition, “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy,” offers continuous bodice-ripping and much ...
by arcadja
Flashnews
Monday 17 November 2008
Sumptuous Italian Reneissance Works Celebrating Art And Love In New Exhibition At The Met
Key moments in the lives of Italian men and women in the Renaissance were marked by celebrations carried out with the greatest possible degree of magnificence. Of these, betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child were of the utmost ...
by arcadja
Art Market
Thursday 30 October 2008
TWO SIENESE PANELS RECOVERED IN AN ENGLISH CHURCH
Two Sienese Panels Recovered In An English Church
Two Sienese panels dating from the 15th century have been recovered in an English parish church, in a village in Yorkshire, just outside the town of Sheffield. More precisely this extraordinary discovery occurred in St. John e S. Mary Magdalene’s ...
by Elena Lanzanova
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