Your Pocket-Friendly Guide to Europe’s Artistic and Cultural Hotspots Are you yearning for an expedition that marries art, culture, and affordability? Say no more! We’ve handpicked five European cities that won’t make you splurge but will still quench your thirst for art, music, and film. From the pulsating city of Malmö in Sweden to the
Does the world need another jewelry fair? “That’s a very, very good question,” the French real estate investor and jewelry collector Richard Steeve Giraud said by phone recently from his home in London. Mr. Giraud, 62, is the founder and chief executive of ArtVendôme, scheduled to debut Jan. 31 to Feb. 3 in Paris. The
BerlinGetty Images 6. Berlin Berlin is a contemporary art lover’s dream. A long weekend – or an entire week, if you’ve got the stamina – can be wiled away just in the German capital’s spectacular galleries and museums. The open-air East Side Gallery houses the largest continuous section of the Berlin Wall. At the same
In February 1780, an Englishman arrived in Madras, weary and sick from his year-long journey to India. As a small boat took him ashore, he was struck by the clear blue sky, the bright sandy beach and the flat-roofed white buildings in the distance – a sharp contrast to his hometown, London. These were the
This November, the Peabody Essex Museum and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain are presenting the North American premiere of The Great Animal Orchestra, an immersive audio-visual experience celebrating our planet’s rich biodiversity. Over the course of a nearly fifty year career, Bernie Krause collected more than 5,000 hours of recordings of natural environments, including
(Portland, ME) The Divine Feminine is a group show at the UMVA Gallery. Exhibiting artists are Patsea Cobb, Roberta March, Christine Morgan, Ellen O’Donnell, Judy O’Donnell, Gary Perlmutter, and Rhonda Pearle. Explore how seven artists interpret these themes: paying tribute to Gaia, the Goddess of Earth, and mother of life and all its natural beauty;
After starting a successful career in Atlanta, the Cleveland-raised visual artist is expanding his work back home in Northeast Ohio. CLEVELAND — Kevin Harp is a multidisciplinary visual artist known as Mr. Soul, whose work has been felt worldwide. But that impact began at an early age at Grace Mount Elementary School here in Cleveland.
The collection of European paintings at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) is one of the largest and most important in India, says curator Nilanjana Som. CSMVS has masterpieces from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, along with some Victorian ones which are part of this collection. “People and portraits, historical paintings, religious and mythological stories,
Professor Boryana Rossa examines We Are All Here to Rot, by Oksana Kazmina ’24, at Bulgaria’s National Gallery/The Palace. The BioArt work featured print, memory foam and a video loop of Kazmina’s own bacteria. Oksana Kazmina ’24 entered Syracuse University in the fall of 2022, months before Russian tanks rolled into her native Ukraine. A
Or does she? I ask because, in Peiffer’s telling, what moved these artists as much as their habitat was Barr’s challenge, which hung in the air for all newcomers, the conscious attempt to surpass the drippy abstractions of their forebears. (We learn that another upstart, the perfectionist Frank Stella, tacked a de Kooning reproduction in