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.
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by Carla Scarano • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, year 2019 • Tags: Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture •
Sometimes free exhibitions are as interesting as ones you pay for. This is the case of three free exhibitions displayed in three different rooms at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford.
by Carla Scarano • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, year 2019 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, drawing, painting, sculpture •
An enthralling survey of ancient myths is the central idea of Ovidâs exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, year 2018 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, painting •
Andrea Mantegna was a self-made man from Padua. In 1453, he married into the greatest artistic family of nearby Venice and became the brother-in-law of Giovanni Bellini.
by Carla Scarano • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, year 2018 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture •
The beautiful park and the edifices of Villa Torlonia in via Nomentana in Rome is an unmissable place in the tour of the capital.
by William Marshall • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, photography, year 2018 • Tags: art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, photography, William Marshall •
This is a remarkable exhibition: Jennie Jewitt-Harrisâs intricate collages, built in many cases on a foundation of pencil and charcoal drawings of driftwood, are a delight to the eye.
by Julia Pascal • art, drawing, exhibitions, sculpture, year 2018 • Tags: art, drawing, exhibitions, Julia Pascal, sculpture •
It is surprising that Rodin never visited Greece and that his addiction to Greek architecture was partly satisfied by what he saw in the British Museum. Here Rodin rediscovered classical art and was provoked to make new works seeded by these antiquity.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, year 2018 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture •
One of the joys of the MASP in the Paulista Avenue, Sao Pauloâs equivalent of the Champs Elysees, is that when you pay for entry (every day except Tuesday) nearly everyone else is too busy making or spending money to block your view of old and new masters.
by Jane McChrystal • art, drawing, exhibitions, sculpture, year 2017 • Tags: art, drawing, exhibitions, Jane McChrystal, sculpture •
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was the consummate commercial artist. He devised a formula for making lots of money out of his work long before Andy Warhol proclaimed “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art”.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, installations, painting, sculpture, year 2017 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, sculpture •
Art is Comic, billed as a light-hearted response to terror, is the latest exhibition to embrace rough, industrial brickwork as the perfect backdrop for popular artists with hundreds of thousands of followers and an outwardly casual attitude towards failing politics and social injustice.
by Stephen McGrath • art, drawing, painting, sculpture, year 2017 • Tags: art, drawing, sculpture • 0 Comments
We are delighted to announce Spectrumâs competition, The Spectrum Art Prize. This is a new national award which celebrates the exciting work produced by artists on the autistic spectrum.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, drawing, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, drawing, Maria McCarthy, poetry • 0 Comments
Maria C. McCarthy commends Alex Josephyâs illustrated selection of poems about Tuscany