{article and image via ART Daily, posted 26 January 2015} WORCESTER, MASS. – The loan of Raphael’s Small Cowper Madonna from Washington’s National Gallery of Art from January 24 through September 27, 2015, provides a rare opportunity to study our own Northbrook Madonna and perhaps uncover the mystery of who painted it. Here Jon L. Seydl,…
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spain says art submitted in lieu of tax last year not good enough
Taxpayers will have to cough up the cash since the state declined to acquire the works for public collections (via The Art Newspaper. By Belén Palanco. Published online: 22 January 2015} Francisco de Goya’s Tobias and the angel, around 1787, Museo del Prado The Spanish Government did not accept any art in lieu of tax in…
9 things you didn’t know about Wassily Kandinsky
December 16th was the birthday of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, a man whose abstract art made history in the 20th century and whose name continues to stump English speakers long after his death. In honor of Vah-SEEL-ee Kahn-DIN-skee’s big day, Katherine Brooks of The Huntington Post collected some of the more interesting facts from his…
dulwich picture gallery challenges art lovers to spot the fake
London gallery will hang replica by Chinese studio alongside genuine Old Masters and ask public to guess odd one out {via The Guardian, Maev Kennedy, Monday 12 January 2015} The Dulwich picture gallery is to set the public, and any art critics with the nerve, a potentially mortifying challenge. A £120 replica of a priceless painting,…
why bill gates is commissioning fine art
Each year, about 6 million people die from diseases that are preventable with vaccines. And about 1 in 5 children around the world don’t have access to life-saving vaccines. But those are cold and dry statistics. {article by Susan Brink, NPR} The Art of Saving A Life enlisted more than 30 artists to create images…
alexander calder’s great-grandson talks to artsy about art + music
{article by: CHRISTINE KUAN | via: Artsy} Gryphon Rower-Upjohn is the great-grandson of the renowned artist Alexander Calder. The current exhibition “Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion” in Dusseldorf highlights the ground-breaking, yet often overlooked, experimental work in sound and music Calder did 20 years before John Cage. In this interview, I talk to Rower-Upjohn about why…
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