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Art Of The Day Weekly

#303 - from 16 May 2013 to 22 May 2013


Paris Bordon, Venus, Flora, Mars and Cupid (Allegory). Oil on canvas, 108x129 cm, 1550s (exhibition Houghton Revisited). Courtesy The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

IN THE AIR

From Saint Petesburg with love #

HOUGHTON HALL (Norfolk) –Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) is seen as the creator of the modern function of Prime Minister. The leader of the Whigs, architect of English politics up to the unlucky war against Spain known as the War of Jenkins’ Ear, he built a considerable fortune and a no-less famous collection of paintings. His son, writer Horace Walpole, kept [Read]

EXHIBITIONS

Pretty font types #

BERLIN – The beginning of the XXth century was a golden age for typography. The Bauhaus Archiv explores the German representatives [Read]

What is it like in China? #

KIEV – Presentations of Chinese contemporary art are held all over the world. The Pinchuk Art Centre presents its own, based on eleven [Read]

Rubens, a European champion #

LENS – Was Europe already a global society back in the XVIIth century? The popularity of an artist such as Rubens (1577-1640), whom [Read]

Treasures from the Barber Institute #

LONDON – The Barber Institute is a major institution, founded in Birmingham in 1932 but it is hardly known beyond the English borders. [Read]

The new look of transhumance #

MARSEILLE – For centuries transhumance was at the heart of the European agriculture economy. The European cultural year pays homage [Read]

Vertigo way up high #

METZ – How can we see the Earth from the sky? Artists did not wait for the successful campaign made by photographer Arthus-Bertrand [Read]

Hantaï, pleats please #

PARIS – He was defined –and lconfined- as the king of the folded and wrinkled canvas. But Simon Hantaï -1922-2008-, a native from the German [Read]

Paris, as seen by Cortazar #

PARIS – He is one of the cult figures of South-American literature. Julio Cortazar, 1914-1984, lived for a long time in Paris and mostly [Read]

After Arte Povera #

TORINO - The capital of the Piemonte region was once the crib of the Arte Povera movement. Will the young generations leave such a strong [Read]

BOOKS

Music as played by Jacques Demy #

Who recalls that he practically discovered Harrison Ford? Back in 1967 Jacques Demy, 1931-1990, had chosen him as his main actor for Model [Read]

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