Conference: Contemporary Art and Margins
Contemporary Art and Margins Interdisciplinary conference, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, October 9-11 2013 This colloquium is choosing to discuss the role that margins play in the definitions of contemporary art, and especially in those that its actors devise. It will be important to understand the margins and the marginality of the actors in the art [...]
Fascism and the arts
A major exhibition in Forlì exalts artistic works from the fascist era. But, anxious to document the work of little-known names, it has tragically forgotten the real geniuses of the Novecento movement
Rome open doors to Tiziano exhibition
The exhibition highlights the most significant moments of Tiziano’ activity following a chronological order
19th-Century French Postcards Predict The Future
A set of 19th century postcards designed by French artists has revealed what they thought we would be doing in the 21st century. According to Yahoo, these postcards were probably produced between 1899 and 1910, and they predicted the life of Parisians in the year 2000. Check out their predictions below:
Secret Painting in Rembrandt Masterpiece Seen
Scientists may be one step closer to revealing a hidden portrait behind a 380-year-old Rembrandt painting. The masterpiece, “Old Man in Military Costume” by Dutch painter Rembrant Harmenszoon van Rijn, resides at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Scientists had noticed the painting bears faint traces of another portrait beneath its surface. Researchers [...]
Mathew Brady and the Modern Union Hero: Rachael Pullin Reviews National Portrait Gallery Exhibition
Uniform, intimate, and official, the portraits of Civil War generals in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, Mathew Brady’s Photographs of Union Generals (March 30, 2012-May 31, 2015), functioned as portable models of masculinity for a republic in the midst of violent self-definition. These twenty palm-sized carte-de-visite style photographs are installed in two orderly rows that flank viewers on [...]
London anarchist bookshop firebombed
By Huw Lemmey / 01 February 2013 Freedom, London’s oldest anarchist bookshop, was firebombed in the early hours of Friday 1st Febuary. Early reports suggest the bookshop on the ground floor and the building’s electrics were “seriously damaged”, despite the bookshop having been fitted with metal shutters following a bombing by members of Combat 18, a British [...]
SHAPES OF THINGS, The birth of the abstract BY PETER SCHJELDAHL
In “Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art,” a splendid historical survey at the Museum of Modern Art, the most beautiful work, for me, is “Vertical-Horizontal Composition” (1916), a small, framed wool needlepoint tapestry by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Rectangles and squares in black, white, red, blue, gray, and two browns, arranged on an [...]
The First International Conference on the Arts and Humanities
Conference 27th to 30th June 2013 Perugia, Umbria, Italy Website: http://www.washjeff.edu/international-conference-arts-and-humanities Contact person: HJ Manzari The First International Conference on Arts and Humanities of Perugia provides an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. Organized by: Washington & Jefferson College Deadline [...]
PRAGUE CONFERENCE
28-31 May 2013 Online submissions accepted until March 21, 2013 The Knights of Malta’s gated premises in Prague The International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) is hosting its third conference in Prague, at the joint premises ofthe Knights of Malta and the Anglo-American University.This refereed four-day conference is staged inside a palace steeped in history, amidst the baroque architecture of Prague’s historical Mala Strana quarter, meters away from Charles Bridge (Karlův most), [...]
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