August 6, 2024
European Fine art

‘Doing nothing is not an option’ (he says, while doing nothing)

I’ve said it before; but it may be worth repeating. If ‘saying a lot, without saying anything at all’ were among the athletic disciplines featured at the Olympic Games… Malta would win Gold, every single time! Take Prime Minister Robert Abela, for example (who, let’s face it, already has something of an ‘Olympian physique’, to

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The Prolific Genius of Frank Walter

LONDON — The creative world of the late Frank Walter blends reality and imagination across a uniquely multifaceted oeuvre. He remains one of the most prolific artists, writers, and thinkers to come out of Caribbean culture, leaving behind a 50,000-page literary archive, as well as over 6,000 paintings and drawings, 600 sculptures, 2,000 photographs, and

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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles in December

The shows on our list this month foreground material and process, through which disparate stories and histories unfold. Ken Gun Min incorporates embroidery into his paintings, pointing to Asian and European traditions. Similarly, Dyani White Hawk’s beaded paintings — or painted beadworks — call out the Indigenous American roots behind geometric abstraction. Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio

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MFAH completes monumental task of erecting historic, 24-foot tall sculpture by star Black artist

Score another major get for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . The city’s official destination for all things fine arts is now the first museum in America to acquire, install, and showcase for permanent display a globally renowned sculpture by a rising American art star. Satellite , a towering, 24-foot-high bronze sculpture from noted

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Thom Browne Curates a Selection of Sotheby’s American Art and Design Auctions Next Month

Thom Browne selected Thomas Moran’s Green River, Wyoming, 1883 among nine works to be offered at Sotheby’s “Visions of America” week that resonate “with his collecting vision,” according to the auction house. Courtesy of Sotheby’s Text size American fashion designer Thom Browne is playing a central role in Sotheby’s retooled American sales in late January,

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Cigar Aficionado’s 2023 Holiday Gift Guide

Calling birds, French hens and turtle doves may be fine for some, but the cigar-smoking gentleman on your gift list probably craves something less likely to fly away from his pear tree after the festivities are through. Consider this compendium of tangible, masculine delights in a range of categories and prices.  Titleist LinksLegend Series Caddie

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Zack Snyder on Netflix’s Rebel Moon, DC Movies, and the Snyder Cut

Eric Ray Davidson FANBOYS, REDDIT TROLLS, Greta Gerwig—they all seem to have an opinion of Zack Snyder and his work, which most people have decided are the same thing. “Love him or hate him,” Snyder says of his outsized reputation. “A lot of intellectuals— I don’t know what you would call it, the cinephile-elite-genre-press people—are

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December 4 to 10, 2023

DANCE The Nutcracker Moveo Dance Company is presenting its take on the classical ballet composed by Tchaikovsky for a second weekend from December 8 to 10 at the Valletta Campus Theatre. The plot, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child’s imagination, is an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816

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MFAH’s permanent gallery for Jewish art opens Sunday

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, curator, Christine Gervais, and consultant Beth Schneider, provide details of the numerous mid to late 18th and early 19th century Jewish religious and cultural artifacts on display in the new permanent Judaica exhibit at the Albert and Herzstein Gallery for Judaica in Houston.Kirk Sides/Staff photographer Historical Jewish religious and cultural

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Shop for art on Cork Street, London’s gallery hub

For almost a century, Cork Street has been the epicentre of London’s contemporary art scene. Situated moments from the Royal Academy, it is home to galleries that have launched the careers of epochal British artists – including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore – and introduced international names to the UK, among them Joan Miró and

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