NY's El Museo del Barrio reopens galleries Oct 27, 2009
The exhibition includes more than 200 works by artists from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, as well as U.S. and European artists working in New York. The show will be on view through Feb. 28. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
CAIN SCHULTE GALLERY - SF|BERLIN - upcoming Openings Oct 22, 2009
Both the San Francisco and the Berlin gallery are now poised to represent their selected group of American and European artists in a cross-cultural setting. Several exhibitions will be traveling between the two locations. (AbsoluteArts.com)
"Mona Linda? Nah. How About Mona Lisa?" Oct 17, 2009
European artists began titling their own works as a matter of course in the late-17th and early-18th centuries, when the became institutionalized in France and Italy. The academies helped young artists emerge by judging their works and displaying them at annual exhibitions. (Slate)
Great Lakes Distillery unveils absinthe line Sep 25, 2009
Absinthe is known for its popularity with French artists like Toulouse-Lautrec and Baudelaire and other European artists such as Vincent van Gogh. Absinthe had been banned in the United States from 1912 to 2007, due to fears that an ingredient in the product caused insanity. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
Antiques aplenty Sep 19, 2009
Two detached villas are named for pioneer European artists Walter Spies and A. J. Le Mayeur, who made their homes in Bali in the 1920s and 30s. Each villa is almost a gallery in its own right, lavishly furnished with period furniture and mementoes evoking the artist and his times. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
A Lost Picasso? Alloy Composition Profiles Could Help Identify, Date And Authenticate Bronzes Sep 3, 2009
Researchers from Northwestern University, together with collaborators from the Art Institute of Chicago, have completed the first comprehensive survey of the alloy composition of a large number of cast bronze sculptures by major European artists from the first half of the 20th century. The researchers classified the unique composition profiles of 62 modern sculptures by linking data from the alloy composition of these sculptures with parameters from art history, including artist, foundry,... (Science Daily)
Metal Composition Hold Key To Identity Of Modern Sculptures Aug 1, 2009
By linking data from the alloy composition of modern sculptures with parameters from art history, Dr. Marcus Young from Northwestern University together with collaborators from the Art Institute of Chicago, have classified the unique composition profiles of cast bronze sculptures by major European artists of the first half of the 20th century, profiles which could be used as another method to identify, date and even authenticate sculptures. Their findings1 are published online in Springer's... (Science Daily)
Art.view: Orientalist art Jul 12, 2009
In the early 1980s prices soared for 19th-century pictures by European artists of deserts and camels and falcons and fairs. Works by Lord Leighton and John Frederick Lewis, so unfashionable in the 1960s, earned stratospheric sums. (The Economist)
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Escondido exhibit documents 20th century in photographs Feb 12, 2009
By 1992, the collection had grown to 4,200 works by noted American and European artists. "The company decided that they wanted to share these works with other people and came up with the idea of a traveling show," she said. (North County Times)
