The story of Varian Fry, a US journalist who helped some 2,000 of Europe’s imperilled artists, writers and refugees escape from Nazi-occupied Europe, has inspired the new Netflix series “Transatlantic”. FRANCE 24 takes a look at a hero who risked his life many times over before falling into relative anonymity. The new Netflix series “Transatlantic” dramatises the
It is no secret that Surrealism influenced the development of Abstract Expressionism. Martica Sawin’s rich study, Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School (MIT Press 1995), charted in great detail the significant cultural exchange that occurred between 1938 and 1947, when Parisian artists fleeing Nazi Europe made their home in Manhattan. However, what has
This unprecedented showcase features the works of outstanding Surrealists from Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, and the former Yugoslavia, tracing the development of the movement from the 1930s to its present-day revival. ADVERTISEMENT The world of Surrealism is often associated with the works of famous male artists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and Max Ernst. However,
Coming into the Art Institute of Chicago off that great city’s streets (where, as Saul Bellow wrote, everything is “louder, rawer, cruder, noisier, hotter, bigger”) and arriving, more frazzled than fresh, at this Spanish still life, you might feel mesmerized by its quietude. The painting’s rich detail and foursquare frontality all but command attention. Let
Men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus, Agamemnon I Exile has always been a powerful theme in myth and history: Adam was exiled from Eden, Moses from Israel, Dante from Florence. Paris in the 1920s and 1930s was the center of creativity in the arts, and many painters gravitated there, discovering new forms
Update, April 2023, (Succession spoilers ahead): All of the drama in the fourth episode of Succession‘s final season swirls around a piece of paper. Discovered in Logan’s private safe while “friends and family” have gathered in his Fifth Avenue palace to grieve the fallen patriarch, it appears to be a list of last wishes, some
Rise of classic cars beats wine, watches and art – index 1962 Ferrari fetches $48 mln, 1955 Mercedes-Benz $149 mln Asset managers offer funds focused on vintage vehicles Electrification to turn collector cars into ‘cult objects’ MILAN, April 15 (Reuters) – In 1977, a Ferrari owner offloaded his 1962 250 GTO because his wife complained
Although European leaders have stepped up in many ways to support Ukraine, the war has also laid bare Europe’s profound dependence on the United States. This reality was at the heart of French president Emmanuel Macron’s recent call for more “strategic autonomy”, which stirred a new debate over the transatlantic power imbalance. It was also
The Milwaukee Art Museum has established the Isabel and Alfred Bader European Art Program Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund bolsters the Museum’s ability to serve as an essential civic, cultural, and educational resource for its community, including providing permanent support for the Museum’s Isabel and Alfred Bader Curator of European Art. Additionally, the gift supports
Thanks to a $4.4 million gift from Bader Philanthropies, the Milwaukee Art Museum has started an endowment fund to support its collection and exhibition of European artwork, including related scholarship. The Isabel and Alfred Bader European Art Program Endowment Fund, named for longtime MAM patrons, will provide permanent support for the museum’s curator of European