Tokyo: a bridge between tradition and modernity, by Carla Scarano D’Antonio. Compared to Kyoto, Tokyo is bigger, busier and cosmopolitan. My friend Ornella and I had plenty of time by ourselves as my daughter was busy with her course at the Bunka Gakuen University where she is attending a Master in Fashion and Design.
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by Carla Scarano • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, year 2019 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture •
Surrealism was the driving force that motivated Dorothea Tanning’s career from the 1930s until her death in New York in 2012. It offered her an alternative world that she explored going beyond everyday reality.
by Carla Scarano • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, year 2019 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture •
The ideal venue of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in via Francesco Crispi in Rome displays a vast range of pictures and sculptures from the Capitoline collections retracing the interpretation and development of the female form and her artistic personality from the end of the nineteenth century until today.Â
by Carla Scarano • art, exhibitions, year 2019 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, sculpture •
The mesmerising Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls) hosts an intriguing exhibition of masks by Nicola Toce inspired by the Carnival traditions of Basilicata, a region in Southern Italy.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, year 2019 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions •
We’ve all seen it a hundred times, identified with it and even messaged using an emoticon version of Edvard Munch’s skull-like face, clutched by hands raised in horror in a distorted, nightmarish world.
by Carla Scarano • art, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, year 2019 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, exhibitions, painting, sculpture •
The vitality of breath and its life power expressed in Jeff Koons’ sculptures and paintings mesmerise the viewer at the Ashmolean exhibition.
by Barbara Lewis • art, exhibitions, painting, year 2019 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, exhibitions, painting •
Edvard Munch from next year will be displayed in a new aluminium tower that has divided local opinion as it changes the skyline near Oslo’s iceberg-like opera house on the waterfront.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, books, photography, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: art, books, photography, poetry, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Stuart Henson reflects on the serendipity that led to the creation of a high-quality artist’s book from Redfox Press which combines photographic images with poems by John Greening
by Jane McChrystal • art, exhibitions, painting, year 2019 • Tags: art, exhibitions, Jane McChrystal, painting •
For many of us stuck here in the grey fastness of a London winter, a visit to the 2019 Pierre Bonnard exhibition has brought some welcome relief.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: art, books, D A Prince, poetry • 0 Comments
D A Prince appreciates the subtle way in which the two parts of Carol DeVaughn’s collection fit together
by Stephanie Sears • art, authors, books, drawing, fiction, film, literature, music, painting, playwrights, sculpture, society, theatre, writing, year 2019 • Tags: art, authors, books, drawing, fiction, film, history, literature, music, painting, playwrights, sculpture, society, Stephanie V Sears, theatre, writing •
As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, sculpture, year 2019 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, sculpture •
In the first exhibition to explore the evolution of Moore’s artistic obsession, the Wallace Collection brings together more than sixty sketches, drawings, maquettes and full-sized sculptures in plaster, lead and bronze, culminating in his seven Helmet Heads.