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A force that has driven art for 100 years
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 7 hours ago
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Uneven surfaces of thick impasto, blotchy thumb-prints, rough smudges alternated with delicate passages and areas of bare board. Up close, one could make out, among apparently abstract gestural marks, suggestions of the female figure, depicted from too...
Tags: Cecily Brown, Shaun McDowell, Maaike Schoorel, Hans Josephsohn, driven art, Los Angeles, Contemporary art, Modernism, Modern art, Abstract expressionism, American art, Art movements, Abstract art
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, By Peter Gay
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Starting with Baudelaire as the founder of modernism, Gay gives an absorbing account of how international artistic rebellion became mainstream and lucrative. His sweeping narrative ranges from Wilde to Frank Gehry. Though Gay iterates the guiding principles...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Modernism, Architectural design, Modern art, Charles Baudelaire, Art movements, Architectural styles, Modern architecture, Postmodern architecture
The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility A rehearsal room at the National Theatre, set up as WH Auden's Oxford rooms in 1972 Carpenter: I want to hear about the shortcomings of great men . . . We stand on their shoulders to survey our lives . . . (As Donald, the actor playing Carpenter) . ....
Tags: WH Auden, Habit of Artifice, digested read, Alan Bennett Faber, United Kingdom, London, Death in Venice, Benjamin Britten, Modernism, W. H. Auden, Operas, Entertainment Culture
Beck records a musical response to Fiery Furnaces feud
London :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
Credibility Beck records musical response to Fiery Furnaces feud In response to the Fiery Furnaces' online rant about Radiohead, the singer has released a tune in tribute to the late avant-garde composer Harry Partch King of the comebacks ... Beck After he was...
Tags: Radiohead, Harry Patch, Beck, fiery furnaces, Matt Friedberger, Harry Partch, United Kingdom, London, Modernism, Friedberger, Musical tuning, music groups, Outsider music, Entertainment Culture
Gary Masters gives ballet a modern spin
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Jos� Lim�n, who inspired him to found the Lim�n West Dance Project of San Jose, the West Coast ensemble of the Lim�n Company. Q: How did "Fete for Three" come about? A: Diablo Ballet's Artistic Director Lauren Jonas asked me to do a small piece, and...
Tags: San Jose State University, Diablo Ballet, modern dance, San Jose, Modernism, Charles Weidman
Irving Kriesberg, Artist of Dreamlike Landscapes, Dies at 90
Mexico :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his son, Matthias, said. Where hard-line Abstract Expressionists shunned figural elements in their work, Mr. Kriesberg used them lavishly. As a result, he was often called a Figurative Expressionist;...
Tags: Mr. Kriesberg, Irving Kriesberg, New York University, Mexico, Contemporary art, American art, Modernism, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Modern art, Abstract expressionism
What to say about ... Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility A smash hit if I ever saw one," says Charles Spencer , who has seen a fair few. Although if this was not the latest offering from Alan "Box-Office" Bennett he was talking about, you'd have to ask some questions of his judgment.
Tags: Alan Bennett, New York City, Nicholas Hytner, Benjamin Britten, Royal National Theatre, The History Boys, Bennett, The Habit of Art, W. H. Auden, Entertainment Culture, Modernism, The Sea and the Mirror, Humphrey Carpenter, Auden, Death in Venice, Russell Harty
Make Your Home In Glamour And Elegance Out of Furniture New York
New York :: NY :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility Central Standard Time We all love to have a beautiful and well presented home; most of us are really spending a lot just to have the best inside our home. But there are situation that whatever kind of decors we use inside our home, we still fell some...
Tags: central standard, blog site, New York, Chandelier, Lighting, PlayStation Home, Wholesale Furniture Brokers, Furniture, Garden furniture, Wicker, Hospitality Recreation, Blogs, Blogger, Blog, Technology Internet, Modern furniture, Antique furniture, Modernism
Review: Ballet's �Emergence' a genuine treat
Nashville :: GA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility The Studio Series , presented in the company�s home base on Redmon Street Friday night, seemed much like an old-fashioned progressive dinner, with the audience roving among three studios to sample a bit of something tantalizing and different at each stop....
Tags: Nashville, Ballet, Modern dance, Modernism, Dance
David Hockney at Nottingham Contemporary
Nottingham :: United Kingdom | 14 days ago
Credibility A Marriage of Styles , is a sexy, funny, scholarly show that looks extremely relevant, in its pluralism, playfulness and range of reference, to painting today. A compelling overview of the artist’s boisterous young work, it heralds too this museum’s intention...
Tags: David Hockney, Nottingham Contemporary, American, Constantine Cavafy, United Kingdom, Nottingham, Modernism, Painting, Western painting
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