DescriptionIt is more than 30 years since Caspar David Friedrich's work was last on show in a major retrospective in Germany. Now, the Folkwang Museum in Essen and the Hamburger Kunsthalle present probably the most famous painter of the German Romantic period in a m…
DescriptionThe Quilts of Gee's Bend is a nationally acclaimed, traveling exhibition of more than 60 quilts created by African-American women living in rural Gee's Bend, Alabama. Dating from the 1920s to 2000, these quilts represent four generations of artists who to…
DescriptionPicasso, then aged 53, first met Dora Maar in 1935. The fiery, extreme left-wing photographer accompanied the painter throughout the Spanish Civil War and World War II. This collaboration and interplay of artistic platforms, materials, and techniques left its mark on the Master's work. Produced by Antenna Audio, this audio guide to the Picasso-Dora Maar exhibition at Musee Picasso in Paris discusses some 30 works that demonstrate the painters' rich plastic vocabulary at this time, and testifies to the relationship that joined the two artists. The 2006 exhibition reunites the works acquired during the dissolution of Dora Maar's studio in 1998 with donations from her heirs and loans from the greatest museums and private collections.
DescriptionAntenna Audio presents the downloadable audio tour for Magritte & Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, a special exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) that explores the impact of Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte's (1898?1…
DescriptionWealthy donors have gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's glorious Temple of Dendur to celebrate a controversial new exhibit. An uneasy mix of scholarship, showbiz, and aggressive marketing, "A Modern Bestiary" has raised fierce opposition from som…
DescriptionAn inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum and the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means. Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery t…
