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A gallery of densely salon-hung portraits shows how much Hockney likes to create a world around himselfâmany family members, other artists (including the late Derek Boshier and John Baldessari), the queen of arts public relations Erica Bolton, rendered in charcoal and crayon; the designer Celia Birtwell, in tartan trousers; an unnamed man in an armchair whose red velvet upholstery looks real enough to touch.
A coalition of 21 state attorneys general is suing the administration of US President Donald Trump for attempting to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and several other agencies through executive orders and actions that, the group says in its legal filing, "are illegal several times over".
In times past, one of my favourite ways to switch off was to go through online auction catalogues in pursuit of mis-catalogued paintings (or âsleepersâ as the art trade calls them).
Belgian film-maker Johan Grimonprez exposes how the Eisenhower administration manipulated jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong to distract from the murder of Lumumba.
Sylvain Amic, the president of the Ătablissement public des musĂ©es dâOrsay et de lâOrangerie (the governmental body that oversees both institutions) since April 2024, puts it plainly: âA museumâs mission is to radiateâto make known and to share its collections with the greatest number of peopleâso there is a contradiction in the idea of needing to limit how many can come.â
The inaugural Art Week Riyadh (6â13 April) will include presentations from more than 45 local, regional and international galleries, as well as exhibitions organised by private and institutional Saudi collections, and a public programme of talks, films, workshops and studio visits.
Among the many sources and narratives running through this multi-stranded show are James Lovelockâs Gaia theory, which posits that Earth and its biological systems behave as a huge single entity, and Charles Eltonâs 1958 study The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants.
Dmitry and his family are also in London, and the company cut its last ties with Russia in October 2022, shutting its offices and relocating hundreds of staff as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.
Youâre with her throughout the process: when she finds a postcard from another woman addressed to her husband, when he initiates a divorce, when they go to couples counselling (because thereâs a big part of Smith that wants to fix the relationship), when she has a difficult conversation with her kids about the situation, and when she finally decides to prioritize her happiness.
Thereâs videos and site-specific installations exploring the fragile nature of morality and humanityâs brutality by Hong Kong artist Tsang Kin-Wah at Galerie du Monde, and a show bridging traditional folk crafts with contemporary artâand foregrounding womenâs unseen laborâat Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, to name a couple.
Inside was âa few thesesâ worth of stuff,â Gentry noted, picking up a sheaf of paper in a musty parlor roomâsheet music for the 1917 song âJoan of Arc, They Are Calling You.â There were books on Catholicism (âSigned Ones in Plastic,â a label read); scholarly works on OâConnor; and, hanging in Louiseâs closet, three chiffon evening gowns.
In the 1941 interview in which Matisse recalled the bicycle anecdote he also revealed that, on the wall of his bedroom, he had two reproductions of paintings: Van Goghâs Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and a work by his fellow Fauve, Georges Rouault.