April 26, 2024
European Art

You’ve Been to the Brooklyn Museum. But Have You Seen It Like This?

Museums periodically revamp displays of their permanent collections to freshen up the visitor experience and lure back audiences. With a new show, which opened in February, the Brooklyn Museum has done exactly that — and more. The museum, which has a permanent collection of about 6,000 works of European art, has redisplayed some of its

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This TikToker Is Flipping the Script on European Art

In one video, Clare Brown pretends to be a scholar teaching about Paul Delaroche’s “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey” (1833). (via Wikimedia Commons) TikTok creator Clare Brown is flipping the art historical narrative. In her viral video “If Europeans were the cultural others: Art Edition,” she acts the part of a scholar explaining Paul

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The Real and Imagined in European Art

Featuring nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artworks from our collection by artists born in Europe or its colonies, Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art focuses on a period of significant societal transformation, when artistic techniques, subject matter, and patronage underwent profound changes. The “real and imagined” throughline of the exhibition offers an evocative

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The European art and architecture that inspired iconic Disney films

CNN  —  Each year, over one million people visit Neuschwanstein, a 19th-century castle in the Bavarian alps, famous for its Romanesque Revival style and Gothic details, including vertical limestone towers and turrets topped with deep blue pointed roofs. Once home to a famously introverted Bavarian monarch known as “the fairytale king,” the idyllic architecture –

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A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art

Walt Disney landed in France just days after the first world war ended. The 16-year-old was working as a driver for the Red Cross and spent nine months touring the country, stationed in outposts including the outskirts of Versailles and the Hôtel Régina (opposite the Louvre). When he was not shuttling military officials around or

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The Influence of European Art Movements on Artists in Pre-Independence India

Artists in India have weaved an amalgamation of expressive visual culture. The Pre-Independence period in India witnessed artists developing contemporary styles. The colonial rule encouraged engagement between traditional and modern techniques. Painters recognised the demand for this hybrid visual format and delineated images, suggesting encounters with various geographical, social and cultural distinctions in the state.

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Reopens this Fall 2023: Galleries for European Paintings 1300 to 1800

Works by nineteenth-century artists, including Van Gogh, Courbet, Monet, and many others, remain on view in our galleries dedicated to European Paintings after 1800 (galleries 800–830). Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are displayed in In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met, on view through September 2023 in the Robert Lehman Wing. The exhibition unites Dutch paintings

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European art and the baggage claim

As of April 30, the Portland Art Museum is without a curator of European Art. I conducted an exit interview with the previous curator, Dawson Carr, in late March and wrote up a farewell article. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation, which ranged from the history of the Portland Art Museum’s collections to the future fate

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Diversity United: Contemporary European Art – Announcements

Ticketing available soon: www.diversity-united.com While the world is fully consumed by the fight against the pandemic, central themes and concerns of Diversity United—freedom and globalization, the corrosion of democracy, (fear of) the future, solidarity and divisiveness—are more urgent than ever before.  At a time of global helplessness and an increasing loss of confidence in politics, art

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Nazi Looted Art | National Archives

The Holocaust Records Preservation Project Summer 2002, Vol. 34, No. 2 By Anne Rothfeld   Dormant bank accounts, transfers of gold, and unclaimed insurance policies, all taken by the Nazis and hidden primarily in Swiss bank accounts during World War II, are now the subject of economic and financial research. Museums and galleries are researching

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