Valeriy Klamm felt the preconceived images of Russia were too narrow. So he started a photography website to change that. By Grant Slater, via NPR February 22, 2014. The gap between how foreigners view Russia and how Russians view themselves is wide and as old as the country itself. Russian photographer Valeriy Klamm felt that…
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seven new art words
The Art Newspaper’s (least) favourite neologisms By The Art Newspaper. Focus, Issue 263, December 2014; Published online: 22 December 2014 Fairtigue A term circulating since 2012 and increasingly heard this year as dealers, collectors (and, yes, journalists) struggled to keep abreast of the exploding number of art fairs around the world. Megagosian Used to refer to…
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… the Elizabethan earl who kept portrait painters busy for 30 years Article by Mark Brown, arts correspondent, The Guardian {Sunday 21 December 2014} First Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley – a would-be suitor to Elizabeth I – sat for at least 20 portraits, says historian If you can tell a person by their collection of…
postcards from paris
What a fashion designer can teach us about the display of contemporary art, by Vivian Sky Rehberg. Ah, the cliché of a Parisian summer! I’m writing this in August, when locals have fled and tourists wander around in droves, only to find boutiques and boulangeries closed. Department stores, museums and cultural landmarks, however, are wide…
after 47 years, a show of picasso sculptures
Article by Carol Vogel via New York Times, Art & Design, December 11, 2014 When it comes to exploring Picasso, it would seem there is little left for curators to discover, despite his prodigious output. Right now, there are two major gallery exhibitions, at Gagosian and at Pace, as well as a show of Cubist…
the god of colors: researchers shed new light on artist albrecht dürer
Almost 500 years after the death of Albrecht Dürer, new details about the mysterious life of the Renaissance painter are coming to light. To uncover the secrets of his brilliant works, researchers have used X-rays and infrared cameras, uncovering information even about the sex life of the art world’s first international star. With his wavy hair…
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