March 9, 2025

European Art

European Art

National Art Museum to inaugurate Gallery of European Decorative Art on January 15

Wednesday, January 10, 2024 The National Art Museum of Romania is inaugurating, on the National Culture Day, January 15, the European Decorative Art Gallery, a unique permanent exhibition in the Romanian cultural landscape, which offers the public access to an impressive collection of approximately 400 pieces of tapestry and furniture, decorative art made of ceramics,

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Unveiling of European Decorative Art Gallery at MNAR

Romania’s National Museum of Art Inaugurates European Decorative Art Gallery The National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) is set to celebrate the Day of National Culture on January 15th, 2024, with the inauguration of its new European Decorative Art Gallery. This remarkable permanent exhibition will showcase an extensive collection of over 400 artifacts, representing

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National Art Museum in Bucharest to open European Decorative Art Gallery

The National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) is set to inaugurate its European Decorative Art Gallery on January 15th, the Day of National Culture. The gallery will host a permanent exhibition encompassing some 400 items of tapestry and furniture, ceramics, glass, and metal. With a surface of more than 400 sqm, the six-hall gallery

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Poland Withdraws Its ‘Anti-European’ Submission to the Venice Biennale

Art & Exhibitions The snubbed artist has branded the move an act of “censorship.” Jo Lawson-Tancred 1 day ago Open Group, Repeat After Me (2022) installation view at Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, Poland. Photo: Bartosz Górka and Emilia Lipa. Poland’s new government has controversially withdrawn the submission for its national pavilion at this year’s Venice

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Exhibitions inspired by the Andes and European collector’s cabinets

Aaaaaaand we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, art and design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and I’ve got your first Essential Arts newsletter of the year! Worlds of wonder I’m a sucker for a wunderkammer, which literally translates to “room of wonder” — the 16th and 17th century cabinets

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AI study suggests famous Raphael painting was not entirely his own work

A renowned painting by Italian artist Raphael features a face that was not created by the Renaissance Master, suggests a new artificial intelligence analysis. ADVERTISEMENT For centuries, the Madonna della Rosa, a renowned Raphael painting housed in Madrid’s Museum del Prado, has been the subject of heated debate among art experts and enthusiasts. The mystery surrounding

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Europe’s Art Industry Turns to Lobbying as EU Tax Change Looms

As the owner of two galleries in Paris and another in Brussels, Nathalie Obadia’s goal is to not only follow the latest trends in art, it’s also to set the agenda. “It’s influencing the influencers, the tastemakers,” Obadia said about her work running the galleries that bear her name. Obadia, a graduate of the elite

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The Modern Study of Historical European Martial Arts

  The fighting arts of medieval Europe were long thought to be lost after the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. After all, what use did the sword and its brethren serve when wars were fought with firearms and artillery? With the aid of texts written by prominent swordsmen of the time, fencers around the world

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Talkshow host Jesse Kelly turns taking liberties with the facts into an art form | Rowan Moore

We should be used by now to the uncoupling of rightwing discourse from fact. See, for example, the Daily Telegraph’s vilification of the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, on the basis that he is refusing to send vehicles discarded under the Ulez scheme to Ukraine, when the power to make this happen rests with government

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Poland Nixes ‘Anti-European’ Venice Biennale Pavilion after Criticism – ARTnews.com

Photo Giacomo Cosua/NurPhoto via Getty Images After widespread criticism, Poland has canceled a pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale that was to feature imagery reflecting the conservative government’s politics. In October, Poland announced the choice of Ignacy Czwartos, who had planned to exhibit paintings that envision the country as having been oppressed by Germany and

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