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Empire State Building: The Empire Series at the Empire State Building
Says Ethel, When I first arrived in New York City, I could see the Empire
State building from my studio window. I found the building beautiful. It was
intimidating, and powerful. I began to develop a relationship with this
edifice. I began play...
Detroit Institute of Art: Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection
These works were created by artists and craftsmen from
throughout the Ottoman empire, not only by Turks from the
homeland, but also people from the Balkan lands, Armenians,
Greeks,...
New York State Museum: The Course of Empire:Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Landscape Tradition
Thomas Cole, long considered the founder of the Hudson River School and the father of 19th century American landscape as a whole, takes center stage in this exhibition with his seminal five-painting series, The Course of Empire. Commissioned by th...
Textile Museum: Gods and Empire: Huari Ceremonial Textiles
Archaeological evidence of the Huari Empire includes ceramics,
found primarily in tombs, with Huari secular designs or religious
iconography. Textile preservation is rare in the highlands because of seasonal rainfall. However,
because the Hua...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557)
The importance of the era is primarily demonstrated through the arts created for the Orthodox church and for the churches of other East Christian states that aspired to be the heirs to the empire's power. The impact of its culture on the Islamic w...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision 5
The exhibition will challenge perceptions of the Victorians. Paul Atterbury, curator of the exhibition,
says: “The world of the Victorians relates to our world far more than...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision
The exhibition will challenge perceptions of the Victorians. Paul Atterbury, curator of the exhibition,
says: “The world of the Victorians relates to our world far more than most people imagine. Ma...
Musee d'Orsay: The Comtesse de Castiglione (Florence
1837 - Paris 1899)
The name of Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione,
is linked to Second Empire political and courtly
intrigues, to the glamour of the Court at the Tuileries
and to th...
Textile Museum: Flowers of Silk and Gold: Four Centuries of Ottoman Embroidery
The Ottoman Empire spanned seven centuries. At its height the Empire extended over three continents. Focusing on the 17th to early 20th centuries, Flowers of Silk and Gold will examine the rich history of urban embroidery tradition and how it re...
RAM galleri: Jan Steffensen: Aquaduct
At Ram Gallery the aqueduct will run from wall to wall, and therefore indicate a continuation beyond the gallery space. A segment of reality cuts through the room, thereby leading our attention towards the world outside the sphere of art. The he...
Dahesh Museum of Art: A Distant Muse: Orientalist Works from the Dahesh Museum of Art
In Louis XIV's time one was a Hellenist, now one is an Orientalist. ... For empires as
for literatures, perhaps it will not be too long before the Orient is called u...
Catto Contemporary: Last Days of the Empire: Therese Stowell
The Minister of Information explicates an apocalyptic future….
‘My fellow Americans, hear this. The empire crumbles. The backlash against our financial and cultural expansion swells. The military is overextended, the economy is faltering. Co...
Peabody Essex Museum: Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China's Imperial Palace
One of the emperors principal roles was that of arbiter of taste for the
empire as a whole. Under the auspices of the Qing dynasty, the imperial
collections and studios swelled to unprecedented proportions. Thousands
of artists, the finest of t...
Canberra Contemporary Art Space: God and my Right - logo series: Juliet Lea and Cube - Cold Comfort: Waratah Lahy
God and my Right - logo series
Juliet Lea
A five meter floor installation of the British Empire logo Dieu et mon Droit made from agar agar jelly, blood, dough, objects and text. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, as the work g...
Louvre Museum: The Empire of Time
Myths and Creations
his exhibition also encourages the visitor to question oneself on the
relationship between time and works of art: duration, finiteness,
...
Corcoran Museum of Art: Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul
Organized by the Palace Arts Foundation, a nonprofit institution dedicated to fostering
international cultural exchange, the exhibition will open at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washingt...
J. Paul Getty Center: Mexico: From Empire to Revolution. A Two-Part Exhibition Features Rare Photographs of Mexican History
Part I runs October 21, 2000, through January 21, 2001, and Part II runs from February
24 through May 20, 2001. Both will be presented at the Getty Research Institute at the
...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Antioch: The Lost Ancient City
Central to the show is a reconstructed dining room reuniting pieces of a
mosaic floor now owned by the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Princeton University, and the
Wor...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861
The exhibition and student pass program are made
possible by Fleet. The exhibition catalogue is made
possible through the support o...
Arts Center of the Capital Region: Factory Direct .1
Participating artists include: Elizabeth Dove, Jan Galligan, Andrew Boardman, Susie and Betsy Brandt, Carl Scholz, Bill Schuck, Kathleen Brandt, Brian St.Cyr, Jeff Hatfield, Mark Dion, Lisa Austin, Richard Criddle, Roger Bisbing, Morgan Puett, and...
Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: Image and Empire: Picturing India during the Colonial Era
Image and Empire allows a broad examination of the arts and visual culture produced in and about India during the colonial era, said James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. It features works creat...
Toledo Museum of Art: Star Wars: The Magic of Myth
The Magic of Myth connects the films to elements of classical mythology and world culture.
Closing in Toledo on January 5, 2002, The Magic of Myth was first shown at the National Air and Space Museum from October 1997 through January 1999. The popul...
Soho Photo: Melissa Fleming: /Colors of Byzantium/
Colors of Byzantium is about observing the rich golden tones of Byzantine art in a modern fashion in the natural world. The majority of these photographs were taken as reflections of golden color in water to gain a flat dark background, similar t...
San Diego Museum of Art: Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul
Highlights include: the famous
emerald and diamond adorned Topkapi dagger; a magnificently crafted imperial throne; rich textiles; jewel-encrusted imperial
ceremonial objects; intricately designed wool and silk carpets; finely crafted armor and ...
Soho MultiMedia Festival: September Song - OPEN EXHIBITION AND PRINT SALE
Osterley Park was extensively remodelled by Robert Adam from 1760-1780 and
is considered to be the finest example of his work. The Jersey Galleries
still have
many of their original features inclusing fireplaces, shutters and a 19th
Century...
EotLA - Estate of the Leo Asemota: LEO ASEMOTA: Misfortune’s Wealth
“I began developing ens in 2005, but the idea has systematically been working on me since attending The Great Benin exhibition at the Museum of Mankind in London in 1994. ens, which in Latin means “the essence”, is a word used in various phrases ...
Louvre: Dominique-Vivant Denon, the eye of Napoléon
...
Fogg Museum, Harvard: Sight-seeing: Photography of the Middle East and
its Audiences,1840-1940
In the 19th century, as the Ottoman Empire weakened, parts of the
Middle East became the subject of renewed Western colonial
...
Transition: Pretty Vacant 'And we don't care' Rachel Potts, Nina Ogden, Keara Stewart
Rachel Potts graduated from Bath Spa School of Art in 2005. Recent shows include Spectre Vs. Rector at The Residence, The Creekside Open X 2 at APT Gallery , 33% Pork at The Empire Gallery.
Since graduating from Wimbledon School of Art, Nina...
Art History Museum: Cypriot Art from the Collection of Classical Antiquities
The Kunsthistorisches Museum’s collection
of Cypriot art contains over 700 objects
dating from the early Bronze Age to the
Roman Empire, it is thus one of the largest
...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965-2005
Barry Flanagan’s series of hare sculptures, which he began in the late 1970s, are among the most instantly recognisable artworks of the last 20 years. Playful, spontaneous and full of life, many show their subject engaged in human activities - dan...
Galleria Continua: Le Invasioni Barbariche: curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi
The invited artists are: Koo Jeong-a (born in Seoul in 1967, lives in Paris); Surasi Kusolwong (born in Ayutthaya in 1965, lives in Bangkok); Shimabuku (born in Kobe in 1969, lives in Berlin); Yang FuDong (born in Peking in 1971, lives in Shanghai...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed
The more than 100 costumes and
accessories in the exhibition – ranging from a 16th-century iron corset to
Thierry Mugler's notorious Motorcycle bustier – will ...
James Baird Gallery: Good in Bed: Sex, Eroticism and Pornography
"Lickity Split" , the title to this painting, suggests a number of things. Painted by a man it would have brought many other connotations but being painted by a woman artist, changes everything.
"Barbies are children's toys as well as adult...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: A Measure of Reality: Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Lizzie Hughes, Richard Long, Robert Morris,
Euan Uglow, Gary Woodley
Location, a wall piece by the American Robert Morris, literally records
its own location in the gallery. His fellow minimalist, Dan Graham lists
measurements from the edge of the known universe to the distance between
his cornea and retinal ...
Kunsthistorisches Museum: 7000 YEARS OF PERSIAN ART: Masterpieces from the Iranian National Museum, Teheran
Prehistoric Iranian ceramics will form one of the
numerous highlights of the exhibition. The various
shapes and decorations document a varied and
fascinating spectrum of early artistic creation. The
magnificent gold and sil...
The Dahesh Museum: Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine
The images include tightly composed details of architectural assemblies that
record layers of occupation of an ancient city, panoramas of the Sinai
desert that defy any understanding of scale, iconic views of Jerusalem
sought out by visitors today...
Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: The Rich Life and the Dance: Weavings from Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Egypt
The hand-woven fabrics, most of them dating from the third to seventh centuries, feature images of dancers, haloed saints with hands raised in prayer, and a myriad of flora and fauna evoking the abundance of the Nile Valley. Some display Arabic in...
Los Angeles County Museum: Last Week! Kalighat Paintings of Calcutta
The Art of Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
In 1773 Calcutta was made the capital of British India. Not only did
entrepreneurs and adventurers flock to Calcutta, but also...
Smart Museum of Art: The Colors of Identity: Polish Art at Home and Abroad, 1890-1939
On Thursday, May 25, from 5 to 7 p.m., The Colors of Identity: Polish Art at Home and Abroad will open at the Smart Museum of Art with a public reception and a talk by independent art historian Jan Cavanaugh, entitled "Opposite Poles: The National...
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