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Monet's Canvas Cathedrals: A Life Study Of Light : NPR
n 1872, in the French port city of Le Havre, 32-year-old Claude Monet made a painting that would give an art movement its name. Monet called his painting Impression, Sunrise. It was a quick, brushy harbor scene — small boats and watery reflections in pinks and blues and oranges. When Monet displayed the painting in Paris, along with similar works by artist friends, a sneering critic called the show "The Exhibition of the Impressionists" — and a movement was baptized.
Visitors to the Andre Malraux Museum on the Le Havre waterfront can see what the great impressionists saw — the English Channel, full of glints and glimmers as light catches its currents. Museum guide Emmanuelle Rian says the impressionists' fast strokes, their scenes of ordinary life, and the glimpses they left of unpainted canvas were brand new and brave — "a real revolution in painting." She says impressionism advanced more in two decades than many artistic movements did in two centuries.
Sally Mann: The Family and the Land |The Observer
Sally Mann is perhaps best known for the controversy that attended her series Immediate Family when it was first exhibited in America in the early 90s. It featured black and white images of her three children, often naked or partially naked, as they played and posed in the woods, lakes and rivers around her home in rural Virginia.
The illy Art Collection: an exhibition of 286 espresso coffee cups designed by well-known artists - Telegraph
Some 286 espresso coffee cups designed by artists, musicians and film-makers are going on show around the UK, as part of the 10th birthday celebrations of the Italian restaurant group Strada. The illy Art Collection features cups designed by well-known names such as Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel and David Byrne. See the final slide of this gallery for details of where and when you can see them
If you poison us, do we not sing?
Sara Halevi, the creative director of Way Off Productions, is excited. Her theater company is starting out with a bang, putting together the world premiere of Arsenic and Old Lace as a musical. Joseph Kesselring’s classic black comedy has been performed countless times around the world since its inception in the early 1930s and was made into a movie in 1944. But Way Off Productions’s musical adaptation of the play provides a unique twist to the already twisted tale of the Brewsters. “Every time a play is produced, every actor provides a fresh interpretation of the character,” says Halevi. “We have our own twists.”
Set in Brooklyn in the 1920s, the story opens with two seemingly harmless elderly sisters, Abby and Martha Brewster, discussing their latest “good deed.” “The two sisters poison old men who are lonely and don’t have families,” explains Halevi. “They put arsenic and cyanide in elderberry wine and kill off these lonely old men as an act of charity and bury them in their basement.”
