Art Of The Day Weekly

#182 - from 8 July 2010 to 8 September 2010


Fragment of wall painting, Qaryat al-Faw, 3rd c. B.C.–3rd c. A.D., Riyadh National Museum. © Saudi Commission for Tourism & Antiquities (exhibition Routes d’Arabie at the Louvre)

Our next issue will appear on September 9 2010. Have a nice holiday!

IN THE AIR

Another type of football is possible

We are all certainly suffering from an overdose. The World Cup has exhausted the most resistant and probably some amateurs as well. [Read]

EXHIBITIONS

Multicolored Miró

BADEN-BADEN -Jean-Louis Prat, director of the Maeght foundation for three decades, is beginning a new career on the other side of the Rhine, [Read]

Signage, Léger style

BIOT – In the beginning of the XXth century, the whole lot of road or railway signs needed to be defined. This exhibition at the recently [Read]

The Louvre, in the Arab age

PARIS – The Louvre museum is getting ready to open a pole in Abu Dhabi, in a building designed by Jean Nouvel (in 2013). It will be inaugurating [Read]

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ARTIST OF THE SUMMER

Louis Cane: from abstraction to the nude

He has something in common with Jean Hélion or Fautrier in his pendulum game between abstraction and figuration, as if to prove these [Read]

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BOOKS

Breton's muse

She was one of André Breton’s three wives, maybe the one that counted the most in his intellectual itinerary, and the mother of his daughter [Read]

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DVD

One of Marcel's lives

Marcel Duchamp has become such an icon that we have lost the notion of his iconoclasm. Of course we all remember his bicycle wheel, [Read]

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