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      Historic meeting of French impressionists recreated in Paris exhibition

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 05:00

    Immersive tour at Musée d’Orsay takes visitors back to 15 April 1874 – the moment that marked the movement’s birth

    In a lush red-and-gold carpeted photographer’s studio in northern Paris, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas are adding the final touches to the hanging of their paintings, while fellow artists Berthe Morisot and Camille Pissarro lament the lack of recognition for their work and Claude Monet bemoans being mistaken for Édouard Manet.

    Outside, Parisian gentlemen in top hats and ladies in bustles are admiring the newly completed Opera House or enjoying an early evening drink on the café terraces while horse-drawn carriages clatter down Baron Haussmann’s new grands boulevards.

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      Intense photographic visions, a journey to Rome and a dealer-turned-painter – the week in art

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 12:31

    A wealth of northern Renaissance drawings; photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman, and recognition for gallerist Betty Parsons – all in your weekly dispatch

    Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings
    Absorbing trip from Flanders to Rome and back with northern Renaissance artists whose drawings have a buttery richness.
    Ashmolean Museum, Oxford , 23 March until 23 June.

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      High court rules Van Dyck painting belongs to bankrupt socialite James Stunt

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 11:33


    Judge dismisses claim by Stunt and his father that 17th-century work was bought by the latter in 2013

    A bankrupt British socialite is the owner of a centuries-old portrait at the centre of a high court legal dispute, a judge has ruled.

    James Stunt and his father, Geoffrey Stunt, had been in a legal row with the trustees of James’s bankruptcy over the Anthony Van Dyck painting The Cheeke Sisters.

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      Tour-guide sleuth puzzles over identity of painter of reassembled Lamentation Altarpiece

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 17 March - 06:00

    After 14 years of research, Christine Cluley sheds light on the work by a ‘Franconian Master’ now on show at Compton Verney

    Could a tour guide, someone regularly working close to great works of art, really solve a puzzle that had defeated other scholars? This was the challenge facing Christine Cluley, one of the long-term “experience interpreters” who takes visitors around the collection at Compton Verney in Warwickshire. Now the detective work of the aptly named Cluley has narrowed the hunt for a mysterious unknown painter famous for creating a 500-year-old altarpiece. The work, which is to be displayed in its entirety this Thursday, has been reassembled for the first time in 30 years.

    Cluley had always admired the two “wing” panels of the anonymous German work known as the Lamentation Altarpiece that are kept at Compton Verney, and she has spent 14 years unravelling its riddles. Chief among the mysteries is the identity of the painter, thought to have been born around 1472 and to have died in 1563.

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      Play-Doh photos, Emin’s studio show and Munch-drunk love – the week in art

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 15 March - 12:08

    Plus 500 years worth of children land in Derbyshire and a baroque zealot flatters his King in oil paint – all in your weekly dispatch

    We Do Not Sleep
    Tracey Emin and friends in a group show at her Margate studio complex and school. Lindsey Mendick and Vanessa Raw are among the artists exhibiting alongside Emin.
    TKE Studios, Margate , until 19 May

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      Matt Connors: Finding Aid review – fearless exhibition full of unexpected pleasures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 13 March - 17:06 · 1 minute

    Goldsmiths CCA, London
    The American painter makes a fascinating curator, bringing together 21 artists’ works – from cracked pots to sensual paintings – into a diverting display

    Seeing as we’re here, I think I’ll go for the English breakfast. Or maybe the keftedes – or even the grilled “shieftalia”. Hmm. How about “Mini hot-dog and french fires”? Or jacket potato with “bolognaise sause and cheeese”? Decisions, decisions. Hang on a minute. The menu – in red and blue on a white background – is a perfect full-scale copy, including the original mis-spellings, of the tourist menu on display at the Ideal Café in Paphos, Cyprus, repainted by Cypriot artist Christodoulos Panayiotou. Presented outside one of the galleries at Goldsmiths CCA, as part of Matt Connors’ exhibition Finding Aid, the menu wrong-foots the hungry viewer. The American painter includes 21 other artists in his largest exhibition in the UK to date. As much as he is giving us context, the artist sets out to enlist and co-opt, to enlarge, confuse and divert.

    Artists frequently make fascinating curators, bringing their sensibilities to bear on their choices and affinities. Do not expect art historical rectitude or the obvious to guide their thinking. Connors’ choices are eclectic, heterogenous and unexpected, just like his own art, with its cheery stripes and arcs, his squiggles and tadpoles of thinly painted colour, his amateur-hour Rothko riffs, his modernist mash-ups of the geometric and the informal. Connors’ paintings can sometimes look like the sort of jaunty inoffensive abstracts you see decorating hospital walls, or painted by-the-yard hotel-room decor. He is unafraid of the decorative and the apparently slight.

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      Legal row could finally force mystery artist Banksy to reveal his real name

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 9 March - 16:13

    Two art collectors are taking legal action against artist over his ‘refusal’ to confirm the authenticity of one of his famous images

    His identity has long been a matter of speculation and investigation, but Banksy may be forced to reveal his real name if a dispute over a print of the late Queen Elizabeth depicted as a bejewelled primate ends up in court.

    Two art collectors are taking legal action against the graffiti artist’s company, Pest Control, following its apparent refusal to confirm the authenticity of Monkey Queen . After three years of trying to get an answer, Nicky Katz and Ray Howse have lost patience and are suing Pest Control for breach of contract.

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      A tropical storm, an ancient sisterhood and Toni Morrison sculptures – the week in art

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 8 March - 12:00

    Postcolonial architecture in Ghana, fresh responses to an all-female medieval community and sculptures inspired by radical writing – all in your weekly dispatch

    Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
    An atmospheric look at how high modernist architecture was reinvented as the style of postcolonial Ghana and India in the 1950s and 60s.
    V&A, London, until 22 September

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      ‘I was awed’: Pauline Caulfield on her glittering life with Patrick and his painter pals – then going back to art after he left

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 7 March - 15:10 · 1 minute

    She was one of the Royal College of Art’s brightest stars. But one week after graduating, she got married and gave up art for raising children. Now, at the age 80, she is revisiting her bold degree show work in a beguiling Edinburgh exhibition

    When Pauline Caulfield graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1968, her bold, brightly coloured, screenprinted panels were considered by some to be the strongest pieces in that year’s show. At that point, the textile artist’s name was still Pauline Jacobs but, one week after graduating, she married the artist Patrick Caulfield, seven years her senior. The two had met a few years earlier when he was her tutor at the Chelsea School of Art in London. “My fellow graduates were working out what they wanted to do and how they were going to afford to live,” she says. “And I was buying champagne and choosing a dress for the wedding.”

    The marriage lasted a little over 20 years, during which time the couple had three sons and were at the centre of the glittering London art set. “John Hoyland was our close friend and neighbour,” she says. “We knew people like Peter Blake and David Hockney. I was overawed by all this greatness – I was happy not to have to put my head over the parapet. No one stopped me from making art, but I was busy raising the children – and that’s how it went on, for decades.”

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