The art scene in Poland, like its history, is dynamic and diverse. Political complexities not only provide the backdrop of happenings for the field of art history, but have a fundamental impact on the course of facts, as well as the shape and meaning of works. Frequent border changes, wars and armed attacks destroyed many
When most people think of 19th Century French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas, they may first think of paintings of beautiful ballet dancers exhibiting grace and movement. But the “Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism” exhibit that opens today, Wednesday, Oct. 8 at the Cleveland Museum of Art depicts a darker side of
November 08, 2023 1:30 am • Last Updated: November 07, 2023 2:02 pm Solomon J. Solomon (1860-1927), ”Portrait of Henrietta Lowy Solomon, The Artist’s Sister” Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala (1841-1871), “Untitled“ “An Artist’s Eye: The Lukas Charles Collection,” featuring rarely-seen portraits by some of the 19th and early 20th centuries’ most accomplished European, American, and
Timing is a funny thing: the day before I visited Berkeley to see this exhibit, I was part of SF’s freeway-jamming ceasefire demonstration, organized by Jewish Voices for Peace. The people of Palestine are as victimized by colonization as any other group under occupation, and walking beside them in that protest was one of the
Records of the first Fauves exhibitions describe an all-male affair, with Matisse heading a roster of now-celebrated names including André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees van Dongen and Georges Braque, an artist best remembered for his role in the development of Cubism. Kunstmuseum Basel’s current exhibition, Matisse, Derain, and Their Friends: The Paris Avantgarde 1904-1908,
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. government has indicted alleged members of a criminal group that uses insiders at Walmart and other techniques to commit ‘refund fraud’ on a massive scale, according to recently unsealed court records. In short, the scam involves someone ordering an item from, say, Amazon — which in this case says
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan is redefining the Great Game as an opportunistic obstacle course, testing his own survival skills to future-proof his country against joining Ukraine as a victim of Russia’s irredentist urges. As leader of the biggest and richest of the independent states in Russia’s Central Asian orbit, Tokayev has elevated pragmatic neutrality
Courtesy of Midtown Houston In our Must Do Things Around Greater Houston series, we take a look at Houston’s vast array of communities, neighborhoods and destinations to bring you five fun, tasty, surprising and enticing reasons you should give each one a visit. While you may think of Midtown as a place where rowdy young
On 5 November, a Russian missile and drone strike against Odesa, the historic Unesco-listed port city on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, rocked the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum as it was preparing to mark its 124th birthday. The museum said in a statement that all events scheduled for the anniversary were cancelled and the “consequences
DANCE Il-Ħajja Concept of Movement, the dance act that became well known locally after their successful participation in Malta’s Got Talent 2020, is presenting their first original show at the Valletta Campus Theatre VCT (ex-MITP), Merchants Street, Valletta, on November 11 and 12. The one-hour performance, produced in collaboration with singer-songwriter Claire Tonna and poet