Art museum makeover is a visual masterpiece Jul 18, 2008
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, painted in 1747 by Giovanni Paolo Panini, beckons the viewer in the gallery titled European Art Antiquity Rediscovered ... The Cleveland Museum of Art s British collection was started by industrial tycoons eager to fill their mansions with European art, and the finest examples of both genres are well represented in the permanent collection. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
American art's heroic moment Jul 13, 2008
Action/Abstraction wants to measure the Americanness of American painting and in the process it tends to ignore excellent work that still showed the influence of European art ... Masson, but as European artists their role is underplayed. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Rika Burnham, Frick Collection's Ed... Jul 1, 2008
Her methodology ably complements the museum's existing pedagogy regarding its permanent collection of European art and an increasing number of highly successful special exhibitions. Career, Publications and Accolades. (Suite101.com)
Museums of Eastern European Art and... Jun 28, 2008
Museums of Eastern European Art and Folk Culture: The United States is Home to Many Centers Promoting Ethnic Heritage ... Museums of Eastern European Art and Folk Culture ... Museums of Eastern European Art and Folk Culture. (Suite101.com)
Bidder splashes out 40.9m for Monet's water-lilies Jun 25, 2008
According to findings from the Hiscox-Art Market Research, 19th Century European art has seen a 13% rise in value since March 2007. Art expert Charles Dupplin said: "It does seem that the art market is remaining reasonably robust, with some specific segments - such as 19th-Century European art - even undergoing a form of renaissance.". (BBC News -- UK)
Museum benefit to look at historic fashions Jun 19, 2008
It features European art from the 16th to early 19th centuries, along with 18th- and 19th-century American art and the Armor Court. The evening begins with cocktails and gallery tours at 7 p.m. followed by dinner, music, dancing and dessert. (Cleveland.com)
Introducing the new kid on the block Jun 19, 2008
6-million and this includes about 70 lots of European art, mostly middling 19th-century British representational paintings. The European component is a courtesy to Canadian collectors, Kerr-Smith explains. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Pompeii and the Roman Villa Jun 15, 2008
Rediscovery and Reinvention explores the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment and the finds' influence on later European art. On view is Michele Amodio's (ca. (Suite101.com)
Art market faces jittery times, despite Monets making money May 18, 2008
"The art market is a funny market -- it's unlike any other," says Betty Krulik, whose company advises, appraises and brokers American and European art from the 19th and 20th centuries. "If you were to compare it to a world, I'd say that you could compare it to real estate more than the stock market. There are things of great value, limited supply and unique for the most part.". (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Art market faces jittery times as economy slows May 16, 2008
The art market is a funny market its unlike any other, says Betty Krulik, whose company advises, appraises and brokers American and European art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- News)
Vandals Destroy Parish's Historic Statue May 15, 2008
It was six feet of pure marble, a work of European art estimated at 200 years old. The head alone weighed 75 pounds, and it was broken off. (WKRC.com, OH)
Gutsy 'Black Womanhood' probes old wounds May 11, 2008
The reclining nude, a perennial in European art history, has beckoned erotically to viewers at least since the 16th century. By the 19th century, such works often included a black servant hovering in the background; look at Manet's "Olympia." Cox tartly upends that scenario, conflating the nude and the servant in her own flesh, lounging in red pumps against a sumptuous gold day bed. (Boston Globe)
Kelly New Deputy Director at NGA May 3, 2008
He wrote Fifteenth-century Engravings of Northern Europe (1967), numerous articles on 15th- and 16th-century European art and co-authored the award-winning exhibition catalogue Hans Baldung Grien: Prints and Drawings (1981) with James Marrow. He also served as the president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (1983-1984). (Suite101.com)
Art Cologne's emerging new identity Apr 22, 2008
Traditionally, the European art season began with Art Cologne in the autumn and concluded with Art Basel in June. Furthermore, there was increasing dissatisfaction with questions of management and lax admissions criteria. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
From the looks of it Apr 21, 2008
Martial Guedron, a renowned art historian specializing in 18th- and 19th-century French and European art, will speak tonight about the "look" of race. His presentation, "Nature, Ideal, and Caricature: The Perception of Physical Types by the First Anthropologists," will take place at 7 p.m. in 116 Art Building West. (Daily Iowan, IA)
'Passport to Europe' Apr 18, 2008
In its way it sums up all of European art from the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf to anticipating the painterly flesh of the current Lucien Freud ... From di Tomm to Corinth, the show will give you a very good overview of European art from the Renaissance to the First World War. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Composer Golijov Defies Borders, Sets His Sights on Brazil's Sultry Beat Apr 4, 2008
Pasion' drops like a bomb on the belief that classical music is an exclusively European art,'' Alex Ross wrote in the New Yorker on March 15, 2001, following its performance by the Boston Symphony. It has a revolutionary air, as if musical history were starting over. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
19th century European art on show in Beijing Mar 31, 2008
BEIJING, March 31 -- "From Academia to Impressionism -- Master Pieces of the 19th century European paintings" is currently taking over Beijing's art scene. The exhibition is not about the presentation of art history, as you might expect from typical museum experiences. (Xinhuanet, China)
Chagoya's clash of cultures comic, caustic Mar 30, 2008
Those complexities include satires of the putative liberties of modern European art, especially Picasso's, derided more heavy-handedly in a painting such as "Hidden Memories at Giverny" (1995). The Pocahontas print even incorporates a reminiscence of the work of John Graham (1886-1961), a Russian expatriate to New York who helped to transmit Picasso's influence to a generation of American emulators. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sotheby's to Sell Works by Beuys, Klein That Spent 40 Years in Krefeld Mar 29, 2008
The Lauffs collection, with its seamless range of important examples of works from every major American and European art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, creates a uniquely coherent ensemble,'' , head of contemporary art at Sotheby's, said in a statement sent by e-mail from Frankfurt. Michael Loschelder, a lawyer representing Lauffs, said that while some works will be auctioned by Sotheby's, others have been sold to the Zurich- and London-based dealer. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Mitsubishi Estate's Tokyo Redevelopment Sprouts Art Tunnel, Bamboo Forest Mar 28, 2008
The museum's permanent collection includes about 200 posters and lithographs by and exhibitions will focus on 19th- century European art. We're not just redeveloping the Marunouchi area,'' said Kenichi Hirono, Mitsubishi Estate's deputy general manager of area brand management. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Looted paintings go on show in Israel Mar 22, 2008
Shlomit Steinberg, curator of European art, said that since the collapse of the Soviet Union there had been a revival in efforts to trace art. Restitution was still vital even so many years after the war, he added. (Guardian Unlimited)
Not the usual Easter egg Mar 19, 2008
Pysanky is an ancient Ukrainian and Eastern European art form that according to Dudchik dates back as far as the New Testament. The methodology Dudchik uses involves carefully planning and stenciling designs onto the egg. (Hamden Chronicle, CT)
No finer arts around than at these college museums Mar 16, 2008
Equally impressive are the extensive holdings of European art from the same period. The internationally recognized collection of French paintings, displayed in the natural-light-filled third-floor galleries where there are fine views of town and campus, includes works by Courbet, Degas, Monet, Gauguin, and C zanne, along with artists who achieved acclaim later: Picasso, Gris, and Kirchner. (Boston Globe)
At art fair, the A-list includes Rembrandt Mar 15, 2008
George Shackelford, chairman of the department of European art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, said the fair's prestige guaranteed a healthy turnout. "There are a huge number of American collectors who wouldn't be anywhere else, whether they buy or not," said Shackelford, who with several other curators and Malcolm Rogers, the museum's director, were shepherding 16 patrons around the fair. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Today's best bets Mar 9, 2008
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Visualizing ideals of grace and beauty Mar 8, 2008
WINDHAM Images of nature and still lifes evocative of 18th century European art are on display at a Windham gallery tonight, as Windham Fine Arts opens Classical Realism. Victoria Alten, curator of Windham Fine Arts, said she tries to make sure that each show is different from the last. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Sweeping tapestry of 19th Century European art on show in Bei00004000jing Mar 6, 2008
Sweeping tapestry of 19th Century European art on show in Beijing_English_Xinhua. Sweeping tapestry of 19th Century European art on show in Beijing. (Xinhuanet, China)
The safe subversive Feb 23, 2008
The scene inside her penthouse apartment is typical of a certain milieu in Shanghai at the moment, dominated by what might be called the men in cashmere jumpers: that is, the European art dealers, carpetbaggers and assorted taste-makers who descend on a country after the initial boom but before the money settles. They mill about, drinking champagne and eyeing the furniture like bailiffs. (Guardian Unlimited)
More Swiss live abroad Feb 22, 2008
The art collection of Emil Georg Bhrle (1890-1956), a Zurich industrialist, is among the most important private collections amassed in the 20th century of European art. He acquired the 000018BF lion's share in the 1950s, but a few of the works he collected during the Second World War were discovered later to have been stolen by the Nazis. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Spend 4 nights in Miami's Art Deco District Feb 21, 2008
Other popular attractions include the , a 34-room villa filled with European art and antiques; the , a glimpse of Miami's glamorous past; and. Find more on what to see and do in Miami by visiting the visitors bureau. (MSNBC -- Travel)
* [ ART JOURNAL ] Looted by Nazis and unclaimed, art goes on display in Jerusalem Feb 20, 2008
"Our feeling about them is that our job is to hold them in custody, in a way, as a kind of memorial to their loss, and when the opportunity arises to return a work we are happy to do so,'' Snyder said. The exhibit of art the museum received from JRSO includes a 19th-century wedding portrait of the beautiful Charlotte de Rothschild, scion of the wealthy Jewish banking family, along with one of her husband and cousin Lionel. The paintings hung in a Jewish nursing home in Frankfurt before they were... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
O'Keeffe Museum argues Fisk should forfeit prized art collection Feb 20, 2008
In the opening day of the trial over the 101-piece Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art, lawyers for the museum set out to show that Fisk repeatedly violated the conditions of the gift O'Keeffe gave to the school in 1949. And they said the school even admits to some of it. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Nazi-looted art goes on display Feb 20, 2008
Some were seized by the Nazis for inclusion in a museum of European art that Hitler planned to build in Linz, Austria. Several pieces on display were returned to their owners, like "La Buveuse," a 1658 painting by Dutch master Pieter de Hooch that hung in the salon of financier Edouard de Rothschild in Paris before the war. (CNN -- World)
Swiss Police Recover Masterpieces Feb 20, 2008
The brazen heist, which the police called the "most spectacular" in Swiss history, took place at 4:30 on the afternoon of February 10, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa, which houses one of the world's most impressive private collections of European art. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie down on the floor. (Time.com)
Armed gang; Spectacular robbery... Feb 12, 2008
The E.G. Buehrle museum contains one of the finest collections of 19th and 20th Century European art. The FBI estimates the market for stolen art at 3bn annually and Interpol has about 30,000 pieces of stolen art in its database. (The Drudge Report)
Armed Robbers Steal Paintings Worth 50m Feb 11, 2008
The area has several art collections including the E.G. Buehrle museum, containing 19th and 20th century European art. Police would not say whether the Buehrle was involved in the robbery. (Sky News)
In Memoriam: Philip Conisbee Feb 5, 2008
received his bachelor's degree with First Class Honors in the History of European Art from London's Courtauld Institute of Art in 1968. It was from the same prestigious institution that he also earned a Master of Philosophy in 1978. (Suite101.com)
Art steams ahead despite the ructions Feb 1, 2008
Sotheby's New York sale of important old masters and European art last Friday week brought in a respectable $US82 ... As for London, Christie's sale of 19th century European art last week sold slightly short of estimate at 2. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
MUSEUM SEEKS HANGOUT Jan 30, 2008
January 30, 2008 -- THE Dahesh Museum is homeless and seeking a new spot for its collection of 19th and early 20th Century European art works. Last week, the museum closed its huge space at 580 Madison Ave. and subleased it to the auction house Bonhams & Butterfield, which was represented by Elizabeth Capen of The Lansco Corp.. (New York Post -- Business)
Philip Conisbee, 62; former curator at LACMA, National Gallery Jan 22, 2008
"Philip brought to the Gallery a wealth of knowledge of European art and a great enthusiasm for sharing his insights," Earl A. "Rusty" Powell III, the director of the National Gallery, said in a statement last week. Powell hired Conisbee twice, first at LACMA in 1988, and then at the National Gallery in 1993. (Los Angeles Times)
The most beautiful modern painting in the world Jan 19, 2008
It came not from art, or not from European art, but from history, trade and geography. In the late 19th century, European nations were competing to colonise the world. (Guardian Unlimited)
Scholars blow the canon apart Jan 12, 2008
"Art history was established post-Enlightenment as a European discipline, so the view was that art happened in European culture, while the rest of the world was carrying on not necessarily separate, but independently of what was happening there. European art history became the reference point. Now we're recognising the relative autonomy of different art traditions.". In the early 20th century, Australian artist Margaret Preston was derided for her interest in Aboriginal art: that debate has been... (The Australian)
A stunning gift lights up LACMA Jan 12, 2008
It begins with 20th century European art and continues into postwar American abstraction, through the early 1970s. Curator Stephanie Barron has arranged the collection in a predictable but nonetheless atypical way. (Los Angeles Times)
Bidding warHow did Liverpool win the 2008 Capital of Culture race? Jan 11, 2008
Liverpool's cultural strengths include the largest collection of Grade II-listed buildings outside London, one of the best collections of European art outside London - and of course its status as the birthplace of the Beatles. The then Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell had also highlighted the competition's role as "an engine for regeneration". (BBC News -- UK)
John Harkness, 53: Now's celebrated Dec 21, 2007
As passionately articulate on vintage American movies and European art cinema as he was on the most recent commercial Hollywood releases, Harkness was also known for the resoluteness of his judgements. Once he'd arrived at a rating for a movie, it stuck. (Toronto Star)
Coffee Table Books -- Anchors' Choice Dec 20, 2007
The book covers American and European art and features the painters who changed the landscape of art history, as well as an overview of other disciplines. SPORTS / FUN Another big trend this year: lots of comic book-themed coffee table books. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Illuminating works of art Dec 12, 2007
"It's a truly monumental undertaking, with truly earnest intentions," says Tom Loughman, curator of European Art at the museum. The show features 49 double-page spreads, with preparatory drawings and artists' sketches, as well as some of the tools used for the re-creation of the medieval technique. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
NEH Awards $750,000 Challenge Grant to Georgia Museum of Art Dec 7, 2007
These centers will provide expanded facilities for the museum's fine arts library and three research centers: the Pierre Daura Center for the Study of European Art, the Jacob Burns Foundation Center, and the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of Decorative Arts. Plans also include a classroom, a small conference room, and a gallery for the display of exhibitions and works of art related to the activities of the research centers. (PR Newswire)
'Las Vegas Diaspora' at the Vegas Art Museum Nov 20, 2007
Both represent something you're unlikely to encounter in any American or European art museum east of the Mojave Desert. (The show travels to the Laguna Art Museum in March. (Los Angeles Times)
Sights Of 'Rome, Italy And Europe' At Benton Nov 8, 2007
The exhibition focuses on Rome's artistic influence as "the source of the western European classical tradition" throughout the art of Italy and Europe in the 17th century to the early 19th century and also "reflects the various ways the classical tradition and the Roman landscape influenced European art.". Dr. Thomas Bruhn, the curator of the Benton Museum of Art, described how the exhibition was inspired by a single 17th century painting entitled "Italianate Landscape with Sleeping Youth and... (The Daily Campus, CT)
"The Road of European Art" displayed in Brussels Oct 31, 2007
A visitor admires a sculpture on an exhibition called "The Road of European Art" at the Palace of Fine Art of Brussels, capital of Belgium Oct. 29, 2007. A collection of 14 different artistic genres between the Renaissance and the early 18th century are displayed. (Xinhuanet, China)
Feathers, sequins and the noble white man Oct 19, 2007
In the bookcase behind us, his collection of catalogues includes tomes on European art (David, Girodet, Piranesi), the art of the American West (Albert Bierstadt is a favourite) and Canadian art (Krieghoff), as well as a biography of Maria Callas and copies of Homosexuality in Art and The Male Nude, this last one tagged throughout with brightly coloured Post-its ... Monkman is fascinated by this costumed figure, emblematic of the 19th-century European craze for the North American native, and he... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Fort Worth, Texas Oct 18, 2007
His exquisite collection of European art Rembrandt, Velasquez, Titian, El Greco et al -- is housed in a Renaissance-style building designed by Louis Kahn. Across the lawn at the Amon Carter Museum designed to resemble an American Indian lodge the accent is on American art, with such important works as The Hunter s Return by Thomas Cole, Georgia O Keeffe s abstract landscapes and Winslow Homer s watercolors. (Suite101.com)
Center for Curatorial Leadership Oct 5, 2007
Laurie Winters, Curator of Earlier European Art, Milwaukee Art Museum. more in suite. (Suite101.com)
Scarce at home, the movies of Tunisia's female filmmakers draw world acclaim Oct 4, 2007
The movies of Dora Bouchoucha, Kalthoum Bornaz, and Moufida Tlatli are more likely to be seen in European art houses or American film festivals than anywhere in this country. Old Egyptian comedies and action flicks draw crowds to the box office. (Christian Science Monitor)
Boynton woman: Nazis stole family art Sep 28, 2007
The Nazis looted as many as 100,000 pieces of museum-quality European art, according to some estimates ... "Even when the documentation may seem to be airtight, it is often open to multiple interpretations," said Ward, a specialist in European art. (The Palm Beach Post)
Appointment of Nathalie Bondil as Director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Sep 27, 2007
She arrived in Montreal in 1999 to take up the position of Curator of European Art (1800-1945) at the MMFA and was named Chief Curator in 2000, a position she will continue to assume in parallel to her functions as Museum Director. NOTE TO PHOTO EDITORS: A photo accompanying this release is available on the CNW Photo Network and archived at http://photos. (Canada Newswire)
'The Age of Rembrandt': starring patrons of a Golden Age Sep 21, 2007
With his opulent paint, acute ambition, stumblebum's mug and pilgrim's soul, Rembrandt van Rijn was a god of 17th-century European art. Some 20 paintings by him - the largest number outside Amsterdam - pulse through "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," a show with an elusive heart. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Mollywood: Mammootty Excels in 'Ore Kadal Aug 29, 2007
As a writer and director, Shyamaprasad narrates the plot like a European art film of the seventies. His target audiences are the matured adults. (Daijiworld.com)
NGA takes the biscuit, for surreal Aug 23, 2007
This is an exquisite Metaphysical painting, brightly coloured and intriguingly composed and it will surely provoke much interest in our new permanent collection display in the room devoted to Dada and Surrealism," he said. Early Modernist works of this calibre improved the range and depth of the gallery's collection of 20th-century European art, he said. "De Chirico's metaphysical paintings consciously exploited the symbolism of his art, featuring stark views of semi-abstract figures, harsh... (The Canberra Times)
From Paris to Denver: Louvre art travels west Aug 15, 2007
"Our visitors will have the unprecedented opportunity to see works from the world's greatest collection of European art. The expansion of the museum enables us to host an exhibition of this magnitude, and we are delighted to launch our traveling exhibition program with a show of this caliber," said Lewis Sharpe, museum director. "It is really a chance to take advantage of what the Frederic C. Hamilton building has to offer. We are using two out of our three exhibition spaces. We are in a great... (MSNBC -- Travel)
Glasgow's Burrell Collection Aug 13, 2007
The Medieval Europe section reflects Sir William's first love -- Northern European art from 1300-1500 AD. Sculpture and church art, with a beautiful array of wood and polychrome saints, form the most memorable part of his acquisitions in this area. Highlights of the decorative arts section include a trio of steeple cups from 17th Century London, a 15th Century tin-glazed earthenware dish from Spain and German glassware. (Suite101.com)
Latin American exhibit opens Aug 4, 2007
By the 17th century, artists were often Creole -- meaning born in Latin America -- their ties to European artistic developments looser ... Colonial artists did invent pictorial motifs not seen in European art. (Los Angeles Times)
Blow-Up director Antonioni dies Aug 1, 2007
It's the last link with the great days of European art cinema ... "It's the last link with the great days of European art cinema.". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
