August 5, 2024
European Art

Moving right.. away from art

The stakes for Amsterdam Art Week seem bigger than usual in this, its 12th year. When the event opens on May 29, it will be against the backdrop of a new right wing coalition government in the Netherlands, one brokered by a man who has spoken of ending state subsidies for culture altogether, as well

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Rare exhibition of ‘Big Four’ European art masters enters final week in St. Pete

A breathtaking and first-of-its-kind exhibition in St. Pete is entering its final week on display. “Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four, Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe and the National Museum of Wildlife Art” has been a smash hit at The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art (150 Central

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European Mental Health Week: The healing power of art helps people cope with the upheaval caused by conflict [EN/AR] – Bulgaria

Attachments In a world where stress and anxiety seem to be constant companions, the creative arts provide solace, comfort and a complement to traditional psychotherapies. In the first few months after Svitlana arrived in Burgas, a city on Bulgaria’s eastern Black Sea coast, she lived in a shelter and made money by playing violin on

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Let There Be Light | Colin B. Bailey

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Paintings galleries, which reopened last November after a thoughtful, beautiful refurbishment and reinstallation, now display more than seven hundred works, including a discrete selection of sculpture and the decorative arts (and even a small sampling of nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century paintings). After efforts to raise $600 million to fund

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Germany’s Euro 2024 squad is being leaked. Art venue says Leroy Sané is in

BERLIN (AP) — Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann was supposed to announce his European Championship squad on Thursday but others have been doing it for him instead. Bakers, singers, entertainers, art venues, radio stations. The German soccer federation’s decision to “leak” some of Nagelsmann’s choices in a variety of manners has arguably generated more excitement than

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Germany’s Euro 2024 squad is being leaked. Art venue says Leroy Sane is in – San Diego Union-Tribune

BERLINBERLIN — Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann was supposed to announce his European Championship squad on Thursday but others have been doing it for him instead. Bakers, singers, entertainers, art venues, radio stations. The German soccer federation’s decision to “leak” some of Nagelsmann’s choices in a variety of manners has arguably generated more excitement than the confirmed choices

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Art Explora—Académie des beaux-arts European Award 2024 – Announcements

Applications are open for the Art Explora—Académie des beaux-arts European Award, the leading European Award supporting new dialogues between the arts and audiences. Develop an art centre in a care home, empower refugee children with the skills to creatively document their own stories, nurture creativity in mental health hospitals through digital art initiatives, offer an opera

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The Lucy M. and John E. Buchanan, Jr.  Lecture: Berthe Morisot, Angel of the Unfinished

With Dr. Nicole Myers, Dallas Museum of Art Today, few people are familiar with the name and work of Berthe Morisot, one of the founding members of the artists collective known as the Impressionists. Yet Morisot not only exhibited in more Impressionist shows than such famous friends as Monet, Renoir, and Degas, but was lauded

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Something for Every Palate at the European Fine Art Fair

The European Fine Art Fair, best known as TEFAF, is all about decadence. Its ninth New York edition, running through Tuesday, May 14, features 89 galleries showing everything from furniture, jewelry, and antiquities to contemporary art. It makes for a disorienting mix, hopping from sculptures by Kehinde Wiley at the booths of both Sean Kelly

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‘Audubon as Artist’ shows his debt to classical European painters

John James Audubon was more than a 19th-century self-taught ornithologist with a plan to depict bird species across America. In “Audubon as Artist: A New Look at ‘The Birds of America,’” author Roberta J.M. Olson argues that Audubon’s lively and lifelike bird paintings drew their inspiration from classical European artists.  Why We Wrote This Looking

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