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Cleveland Museum of Art announces new exhibits for 2021-2022 including big show on sculptor Alberto Giacometti Steven Litt, cleveland.com © Steven Litt, Cleveland.com Cleveland Museum of Art curators use 3d printed pieces to show how its statue of Krishna will be reassembled with a new part donated by the government of Cambodia. The finished project will be on view in an upcoming exhibition this fall. CLEVELAND, Ohio — A major traveling exhibition on Picasso is still on hol...

Sacred art in Malta has experienced difficulty in ridding itself of the shackles of the Baroque era as far as Church commissions are concerned as the cumbersome shadows of Caravaggio and Mattia Preti conditioned its development. In the latter half of the 20th century, Emvin Cremona managed to achieve a balance between the acceptably modern and a monumental classicism easily understood by the churchgoers and that fitted within ecclesiastical parameters. The Assumption of the Virgin Anton Inglott...

Русский COVID-19 has the world quaking, and because it is an invisible threat, the terror it has struck in our hearts shows no sign of abating. Up to now, humanity has achieved prosperity and progress at an accelerating pace through an ongoing process of discarding the invisible in favor of the visible. Drunk with this success, we have taken to slighting that which cannot be seen and endlessly pursuing that which can. But now we find ourselves forced to directly confront the invisible in...

Mr. van Rijn? Why, meet Mr. Lurie. The film ‘My Rembrandt’ and the HBO documentary series ‘Painting with John’ explore the cultivation and creation of fine art. By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated January 21, 2021, 11:06 a.m. Email to a Friend John Lurie in "Painting With John."HBO Some people create art, others buy it. Some do both, of course, but the difference between a consumer and a producer of this commodity can be seen by comparing the documentary “ My Re...

Masterpiece reflects faith in humans overcoming catastrophe We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Masterpiece reflects faith in humans overcoming catastrophe Save Normal text size Nicolas Poussin’s The Crossing of the Red Sea is like a great uncle who never leaves his big house, always up for a family visit. I am a fan of Poussin’s work in general. Apart from being beautifully painted and loaded with historical references, this paint...

Photograph by Fay Godwin The son of an English businessman, J. G. Ballard was born and raised in Shanghai. For the past twenty-odd years, he has lived more or less anonymously in Shepperton, a dingy, nondescript suburb of London lying under the approach to Heathrow Airport. Ballard’s writing is so often situated within the erotic, technical, postholocaust landscape, and so often concerned with the further reaches of postmodern consciousness, that it is inevitably rather droll to come upon the...

Image courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection Few realize that the sale of Binney & Smith Crayola crayons, those staples of so many childhoods, helped fund one of the largest physical donations of art in the history of Houghton Library’s Harvard Theatre Collection (HTC). The 1986 bequest of 10,000 dance prints from Edwin Binney, 3rd, ’46, Ph.D. ’61, who became the HTC’s honorary curator of ballet, contributed significantly to its becoming one of the largest and most prominent perform...