* Chow Mei-ching raises funding for schools in Pingtung Jul 7, 2008
Chow also invited about 40 students at the schools to take the high speed rail from Kaohsiung to Taipei later this month to see an exhibit of artwork from the Musee dOrsay in Paris, including works by the 19th century French artist Jean-Francois Millet. The Millet exhibition, which opened at the National Museum of History in Taipei in late May, runs until Sept. 5. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
* Taiwan News Quick Take Jun 1, 2008
Works by painters of the Barbizon School and Pissarros fellows such as Jean-Francois Millet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet have also been selected for the exhibition to put Pissarros achievements and influence in a wider perspective. This story has been viewed 419 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Taiwan stages exhibition of Millet's works from France May 27, 2008
A Taiwan museum says it will stage a special exhibition of the works of Jean-Francois Millet and other famed French painters on loan from Paris. The three-month exhibition will display 43 paintings from the Musee d'Orsay, including Millet's most famous works the Gleaners (1859), the Angelus (1860), and the Shepherdess with Her Flock (1863). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Moreau lamp would be more valuable with a mate Jan 7, 2008
Auguste is said to have studied under his father and his brother, Mathurin, as well as Jean-Francois Millet, and Auguste Drumont. Auguste first exhibited his work at the Salon in 1861 and continued to do so until 1913 (one source said 1910). (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Is He Dead? Yes, but Twain Play Lives On Dec 26, 2007
The play, set in 1840s Paris, fictionalizes the nondeath of real-life painter Jean-Francois Millet. To help himself and his debt-ridden friends, Millet fakes his death to inflate the value of his paintings. (Newsmax)
Norbert Butz in Drag Turns Twain's Broadway Debut Topsy Turvy Dec 10, 2007
The painter Jean-Francois Millet comes to totally fictionalized life in this satire of greed and obtuseness in the art world, which perversely enshrines in death an artist it ignored in life. Thus what was not true for Millet captures what was all too true for many another. (Bloomberg)
