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Movie houses, music venues and art galleries are showing signs of life after a long lockdown. They’re also having to be creative with how they reopen, as certain health restrictions still apply.
A self-described American aesthete has no good answers for her French friends aghast at the reality show in the White House.
PARIS — Growing up in Chicago, one of my favorite books was From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the story of a brother and sister who run away to live in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Even as a kid, I could sense what a rare treat it could be to […]
Social distancing measures and face masks will impact not only the atmosphere in theaters and concert halls, but also the bottom line.
An experimental listening booth in Buenos Aires provides people a comfortable space to give honest feedback — alone and in anonymity.
Are explicitly polemical art works, by now a tradition in modern culture, related to the wave of rebellions across the world? Or are they just a moneymaking tool?
As a new Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opens an eternal Parisian question returns of whether his (and the world’s) most famous painting is a blessing or a curse for the world’s most visited museum.
Hany Rashed’s Facebook-based Baba Museum displays personal objects of dead people and plays with nostalgic idea of the past.
Burk Uzzle’s image of loving (and muddy) couple at Woodstock has become a symbol for the 1960s hopes for a better future.
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A Century Ago, Birth Of The Bauhaus
The Bauhaus movement came to life in Germany after the end of World War I. And it lives on today in many ways.
An art exhibition in Dubai depicts an alternative story of the Middle East, using oil as a starting point.
There’s nothing (and everything) left to chance in the world-famous image Life magazine photographer Philippe Halsman, shot in 1948, of the legendary surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.
PARIS — Suspected of hacking a dissident into pieces in its consulate in Istanbul, the Saudi regime has become the target of public outrage — until the story dies down, at least. Which raises an important question: should French museums, opera houses and festivals accept funding from the kingdom? It’s a sensitive issue, as Saudi […]
Against the omnipotence of ‘reality-show novels’ and costume fiction, a group of young French authors want to reassert the novel as a contemporary art.
Post-modern design captures our cultural moment’s yearning for unique and inspiring objects, even if they are of little use. The French master pours it all into his legendarily inefficient lemon juice squeezer.
-Essay- PARIS — I shall spare my readers today a highfalutin reflection on the obsolescence of the French Fifth Republic, evolutions in Romanian culture or the worldwide rise of the extreme Right — thanks to Banksy! The uber-famous but ever elusive London street artist recently returned to the limelight with another of his visual pranks: […]
Avant-garde art projected itself through provocation in the 20th century, but has provocation simply become a great marketing ploy for artists?
PARIS — How do we decide what is the world’s top museum? Its size, prestige, collection, the number of visitors — and the way it showcases its brand. The Louvre remains champion. The latest music video from the world’s most famous musical couple, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, is shot amid the museum’s timeless masterpieces and along […]
Beirut-based contemporary artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan uses sounds to shine a light, so to speak, on some of the darkest places on earth.
Sexually-charged images of women (and occasionally men) being seized and abducted abound in ancient and present-day artwork alike.
Stephanie Schrader, curator of a new Getty Museum exhibition, says the Dutch master was inspired by Indian imagery of empire, trade and luxury.
PARIS — Its destruction, nearly three decades ago, sent waves of joy across the globe. And yet, tourists of all nationalities still come to photograph its remains. The object of this paradox is none other than the Berlin Wall, the historic Cold War symbol that became an artistic symbol, even after its fall on Nov. […]
Colombian cultural officials have been busy trying to recover an ancient burial treasure displayed in a Madrid museum.
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Tip Of The Balinese Hat
Conical hats are not limited to China. In Indonesia, where they are called caping, they protect workers from the sun — and make colorful souvenirs in the stalls of Bali“s markets.
An exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris explores a key moment in the artist’s relationship with his models and his world over the course of a single pivotal year.
Can’t afford original artwork? Never fear. For a small fee, people in Geneva can borrow a piece or two.
Last year, an unknown painting by the famous French artist was left to a small Swiss canton. Months of investigation were needed to uncover the canvas’s mysterious elements, but some questions remain.
The grandest museums increasingly share their most prestigious exhibitions across borders for both aesthetic and economic reasons.
In Switzerland, a provocatively mundane location for top avant-garde art. But can you find something more important than a full tank of gas?
The Getty Center launches a festival of Latin American art that also considers its influence on American culture and identity. In the age of Donald J. Trump, this has become doubly significant.
-Analysis- Do GIFs have a place in serious publications? Where the hell is my giraffe emoji? Do androids dream of electric sheep? The digital world is presenting us with questions we never could have imagined we’d have to answer — and maybe we don’t. But there are also those brand new mind-boggling questions of a […]
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Try To Stand Still Life
The lights were dimmed inside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. So when my wife moved a bit during the shot, it gave her a bit of a surrealistic blur next to this 17th-century Dutch genre painting. See more slides from My Grand-Père’s World here.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE — Here, the vineyard traces the pathways of art. It usually is the other way around, whereby a well-known vineyard expands its activities (rooms for rent, a restaurant, exhibitions) to attract more wine buyers. But at Château La Coste, 15 kilometers from Aix-en-Provence in southeastern France, the cultural offer is so rich that people […]
A current exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires isn’t just about remembering a great 20th-century artist. It’s about reclaiming him as a national treasure.
Is the unnamed, faceless author the true superstar of the 21st century? A new book explores the history of anonymity in pop culture, and beyond.
Sadly, the wall-sized master work says as much about the world’s current horrors as it did about the first-ever air raid on civilians 80 years ago.
-Analysis- “This bull is a bull and this horse is a horse,” Spanish-born painter Pablo Picasso once said of his iconic 1937 painting Guernica. Eighty years later, the horrifying depiction of the Spanish Civil War bombing of a Basque town — history’s first attack from the air on a civilian population — stands as one […]
MARRAKESH — It is a 21st-century Parisian experience par excellence: You turn a cobblestone corner or exit some quaint square and come face-to-face with a small, tiled alien critter pasted on the wall of a Haussmann-era building. That is the work of Invader, the French-born street artist who claims to have been educated by alien […]
-Essay- BETHLEHEM — Some journeys begin with a sigh. An old acquaintance of mine, an artist, wrote on Facebook this week about a Banksy exhibition that was about to open in a shopping mall in the Sharon area, north of Tel Aviv. She complained that the cost of an entry ticket was 90 shekels (about […]