Painting

British Museum announces Indian garden exhibition

In the bleak midwinter, the British Museum yesterday announced a blaze of colour and perfume to come: an Indian garden blooming in paint on its exhibition walls, and in reality in a scented garden around a fountain and lotus...

Great Works: Rouen Cathedral: The Portal, Grey Weather (1892) by Claude Monet

Fog and art: around 1900, they went hand in hand. Oscar Wilde took fog as proof that art can alter our perceptions. "Where, if not from the Impressionists, do we get those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping down our...

Margaret Olley gives Degas sketch to NGA (AAP)

Australian galleries have been spending up big on the wrong sorts of art for many years, artist Margaret Olley says. The 85-year-old philanthropist made the comment as she donated a sketch of a ballerina by French impressionist...

Paintings & Haute Couture by Steven Colucci

Acclaimed NYC artist, professional ballet dancer & mime Steven Colucci is set to unveil Muse: An Exhibition of Paintings and Haute Couture at the National Arts Club starting Friday December 5, 2008. The month-long exhibition...

From here, you can almost see heaven

In the exhibition hall of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s conference center is a truly exceptional exhibition of Post-Byzantine art. Vivid icons of Christ, the Virgin Mary and other central Biblical figures are displayed in bold...

Canvas of diversity

New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS)Jaipur-based Vinay Sharma creates solid shapes - a combination of sculptures and paintings - with an array of eclectic material. His materials range from pen, ink, oil and acrylic paint along with old...

Kunsthistorisches Museum exhibits 'The Myth of Antiquity' in Vienna

VIENNA - The protagonists of classical myths – heroes, mortals, gods and demi-gods – are deeply embedded in our collective memory and have lost nothing of their power to fascinate. Neither the invasion of the barbarians in Late...

The Albertina exhibits 'Monet to Picasso ~ The Batliner Collection'

Vienna, Austria - The exhibition “Monet to Picasso” offers an informative overview of one of the most exciting chapters in the history of art: the turn from figural to abstract art, the progressive deconstruction of traditional...

Museo Wurth La Rioja hosts 'After the Flood' an Exhibition by Gao Xingjian

AGONCILLO-LA RIOJA, SPAIN - Museo Wurth La Rioja presents the exhibition 'After the Flood', which brings together the work by the prestigious Chinese artist Gao Xingjian (Ganzhou, China, 1940), 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. A...

What Are Icons? A Practical Guide [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]

What Are Icons? A Practical Guideby Mike SullivanEditor’s Note: The following article was written to accompany CUF’s 2008 calendar, which features icons from Annunciation of the Mother of God Byzantine Catholic Church in Homer...

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