Manuel Acevedo’s “WTC: Tropism,” one of the artist’s concepts for ground zero, on view at the Bronx River Art Center. For nearly 25 years, the Bronx River Art Center has been organizing exhibitions, art classes and public school programs out of a funky, century-old building in a battered neighborhood called West Farms. Beginning in September, [...]
Leonardo DaVinci, La Belle Ferroniere Leonardo da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan is said by the gallery to be the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. The Trafalgar Square gallery is borrowing works including La Belle Ferroniere from the Louvre museum in Paris, the Madonna Litta (also known as [...]
Workers hang a painting as they prepare the exhibition “Klee meets Picasso” at the “Zentrum Paul Klee” museum in Bern. The exhibition of works by Swiss artist Paul Klee and Spanish artist Pablo Picasso will open on June 6 and run until September 26 Two masters, four themes, eight pictures. Poetry here, drama there. Irony [...]
A member of the public looks at The Charnel House as part of the Picasso: Peace And Freedom exhibition. Lenin used the term “useful idiots” to describe Western liberals who turned a blind eye to the true nature of totalitarianism – and few were more idiotic or more useful to the Soviet cause than Pablo [...]
Domenichino, Saint John the Evangelist, late 1620s. On loan from a private collection, © Private collection 2010. One of the greatest works by the Italian Baroque master Domenichino (1581–1641) is to remain in Britain and is now on public display in Room 32 of the National Gallery, having been acquired by an anonymous private collector. [...]
John Deacon’s photograph of Francis Bacon Though he was primarily a painter of the human figure, Francis Bacon never drew from the nude, rarely worked from life, and painted directly onto the canvas without first making preliminary studies or using preparatory drawings. But however strange the ectoplsamic and ambiguously gendered creatures in his paintings appear [...]
At times using over 50,000 nails, this highly skilled and multifaceted artist has been banging his ideas onto large white wooden panels. LONDON.- Having turned his hand to craftsmanship, these days you’re more likely to find ex-businessman Marcus Levine ‘nailing it’ in the art world rather than the boardroom. This Yorkshire-born sculptor, and unwitting specialist [...]
