Archive for March 6th, 2013
The Gardens at Middleton Place
Art Shows, entertainmentThe Gardens at Middleton Place. The Gardens at Middleton Place in Charleston, South Carolina, are the oldest landscaped gardens in America. The Gardens, which plantation-owner Henry Middleton envisioned and began to create in 1741, reflect the grand classic style of formal gardens that remained in vogue in Europe and England into the early part of [...]
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Beyond the Bed: The American Quilt Evolution
UncategorizedBeyond the Bed: The American Quilt Evolution at the Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester County, New York, celebrates this most American art form with over 30 quilt masterpieces that reflect the distinct voice of each quilter; fusing art and history. This innovative exhibition traces the evolution of the North American quilt, in form, fashion, [...]
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The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Art, entertainmentThe West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is the love-child of conductor Daniel Barenboim and the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said. Created ten years ago, it is made up of young musicians from Israel and Arab countries throughout the Middle East. The founders shared the belief that music can provide a pathway to understanding in the region through [...]
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Ballet Austin
Art, Dance, entertainmentBallet Austin is one of the largest classical ballet academies in the country. The Texas company is growing rapidly and performing all over the country and in venues around the world. They have moved into a repurposed 34,000 square-foot facility, the Butler Dance Education Center and Community School in the heart of the burgeoning downtown [...]
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Master & Servant
entertainment, TravelMaster & Servant London’s hottest new restaurant, has opened in Hoxton Square, in the city’s up-and-coming Shoreditch area. The brain-child of Matt Edwards, previously of the St John Hotel and Hix, M&S was designed by Mhairi Coyle Design. The restaurant serves up Manhattan sophistication with British panache. Specialties include seasonal dishes cooked on a charcoal [...]
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Salvador Dali: The Making of an Artist by Catherine Grenier
Art, Art Shows, BooksSalvador Dali: The Making of an Artist by Catherine Grenier (Flammarion: $75). This incisive book reveals the complex man behind the mustache, exploring his important role as one of the fathers of Surrealism, and in the evolution of 20th century art. Grenier’s book examines his work, his muses, his influences—and the many contemporary artists who [...]
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Francis Bacon Five Decades edited by Anthony Bond
Art, BooksFrancis Bacon Five Decades edited by Anthony Bond (Prestel: $65). Disturbing, compelling, important, this book examines the work of this controversial British artist decade-by-decade, providing insights into the strange world of his personal life and his dark and his unique artistic vision. This new book demonstrates why, like him or not, Bacon was one of [...]
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Everyday Roses by Paul Zimmerman
Art, Books, entertainmentEveryday Roses by Paul Zimmerman (Taunton Press, $22.95). Noted rose-grower and breeder Paul Zimmerman de-mystifies the many new breeds of shrubs and climbers that are proliferating across the county, with expert advice on what to buy, how to grow and how to use these new roses in the landscape. share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this [...]
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The Girl with the Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis edited by Lea van der Vinde
Art, BooksThe Girl with the Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis edited by Lea van der Vinde (Prestel: $34.95). This beautiful book is edited by the Curator of the Mauritshuis, the Dutch Royal Picture Gallery in the Hague, one of the most beautiful museums in Europe. Visitors from around the globe flock to the 17th [...]
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Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925 by Leah Dickerson and others
Art, Art Gallery, Art Shows, Books, Museum ShowInventing Abstraction: 1910-1925 by Leah Dickerson and others (Thames & Hudson/MoMA: $75). This invaluable and comprehensive new book by the Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art accompanies the landmark exhibit currently on view there. It examines the key artists, artworks, events and issues and their influences that [...]
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Painting and Photography: 1839-1914 by Dominique De Font-Réaulx
Art, BooksPainting and Photography: 1839-1914 by Dominique De Font-Réaulx (Fammarion: $75). This new book examines the beginnings and evolution of the art of photography, its relation to classical painting, and the many controversies the new form engendered. Many genres, including landscapes and portraits, still lifes and nudes, are compared and contrasted in this important and original [...]
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The Essential Cecil Beaton: Photographs 1920-1970 by Philippe Garner and David Alan Mellor
Art, BooksThe Essential Cecil Beaton: Photographs 1920-1970 by Philippe Garner and David Alan Mellor (Schirmer/Mosel: $65). The 265 images in this beautiful book trace the flamboyant photographer’s high-low vision of the world, his strange self-positioning between the upper-classes of aristocrats and celebrities, the milieu of international, British and Hollywood royalty, to the seamy London underworld he [...]
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Ben Uri Gallery & Museum in London:‘Curates world class exhibitions and is now ready to bring them to America’, ‘from Russia to Paris: Chaïm Soutine and his contemporaries’by Sarah MacDougall
Art, Art GalleryTo celebrate the museum’s recent acquisition of Soutine’s stunning painting La Soubrette, c. 1933, the exhibition, From Russia to Paris: Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries, recently unveiled this important portrait together with a small selection of work from the Ben Uri collection by a number of Soutine’s peers: all either born (like Chagall) within Russia, [...]
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