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This volume of Experiment is dedicated to the contributions of Russian performers and artists who lived and worked in Los Angeles in the fields of dance performance, visual arts, and film, exploring how the city was influenced by their presence as well as the reasons that drew them to Southern California.
Madame Cézanne, the first exhibition of paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) of his most painted model, Hortense Fiquet (1850–1922), will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 19.
Every month, MetCollects introduces one work of art recently acquired by the Met. We invite you to have a first look with us.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s marble sculpture Adam by Tullio Lombardo (ca. 1455–1532) will return to public view on November 11, following a tragic accident in 2002 and an unprecedented 12-year conservation project.
The exhibition allows Adam to be viewed in the round and explains this unprecedented twelve-year research and conservation project.
The permanent collection of the Department of Arms and Armor is one of the most encyclopedic in the world. To highlight the ongoing development of the collection's multicultural and interdisciplinary nature, this exhibition will focus on approximately forty works from Europe, the United States, Japan, India, and Tibet acquired between 2003 and 2014.
The exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carleton Watkins: Yosemite, includes a suite of photographs made by Watkins during his first encounter with the sublime topography of Yosemite in 1861 as well as a larger group of studies from his later visits to the valley in 1865 and 1866 while working for the California State Geological Survey.
American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation and American University's Initiative for Russian Culture invite to 2014 Gala "PHOTOJOURNALISM CINEMATOGRAPHY, 1914-2014" on November 19, 2014. National Geographic Society (Northwest, City of Washigton).
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541–1614), this special collaboration will bring together all of the artist’s paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, the finest outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and display them with six loans from the Hispanic Society of America.
The paper of Alexander Rozhin, Natella Voiskounski on the International academic conference "ALEXANDER GOLOVIN AND THE CULTURE OF THE SILVER AGE" (14.10 - 15.10, State Tretyakov Gallery).
Every month, MetCollects introduces one work of art recently acquired by the Met. We invite you to have a first look with us.
Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire, The Costume Institute’s first fall exhibition in seven years, will be on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Anna Wintour Costume Center from October 21, 2014 through February 1, 2015.
On 11 October 2014, Christie’s Mayfair will open The Bad Shepherd, a major exhibition exploring the continued influence of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and his artistic dynasty in the 21st century.
The exhibition Thomas Hart Benton’s America Today Mural Rediscovered celebrates the gift of Thomas Hart Benton’s epic mural America Today from AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2012.
London – Christie’s season of Post-War & Contemporary Art auctions will be highlighted by The Italian Sale, which will take place on 16 October in King Street following the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening sale.
Ceramics of Paulina Olowska in SIMON LEE GALLERY, Sep. 17th – Oct. 9th, Central, Hong Kong.
London – Objects tracing the rich cultural heritage of the Islamic and Indian worlds will be offered in a series of three sales at Christie's in London during Islamic Art Week which runs from 7-10 October.
Cosmoscow Talks is a programme of keynote lectures, panel discussions and workshops. This year they are focused on alternatives and opportunities. What is a basic force that drives the art market forward?
The Florence Academy of Art is a premier, world-renowned institution for advancing the techniques of classical painting.
Twenty-five photographs by Thomas Struth (German, born 1954), one of the most accomplished and celebrated artists of the last half-century, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 2014 through February 16, 2015.