Tag: Spectacle

Under the Big Top: The Fine Art of the Circus in America at the Fleming Museum

BURLINGTON, VT.- The circus was recognized in late-19th-century Europe as a subject of avant-garde art, but in America, it was not until artist Robert Henri’s appeal, in 1923, to paint contemporary life that artists began to search out and paint scenes…

Buckingham Palace Experiences Record Number of Visitors in 2010, Highest in 16 Years

LONDON.- A record-breaking 413,000 visitors passed through the doors of Buckingham Palace during this year’s Summer Opening. Attendance was the highest in 16 years and the second-highest since Buckingham Palace first opened to the public in 1993 …

Buckingham Palace Experiences Record Number of Visitors in 2010, Highest in 16 Years

LONDON.- A record-breaking 413,000 visitors passed through the doors of Buckingham Palace during this year’s Summer Opening. Attendance was the highest in 16 years and the second-highest since Buckingham Palace first opened to the public in 1993 …

Gasser Grunert Gallery Presents Tim Rodas "Games of Antiquities"

NEW YORK, NY.- Tim Roda invited five other artists to join him in emulating the folly and viciousness of the Ancient Roman spectacle in which artists Doug Jeck, Chris Miller, Jacob Foran, John Byrd, Ryan Horvath joined the Roda family through August, w…

Object Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacle at Museo Reina Sofia

MADRID.- The exhibition New Realisms: 1957-1962 illuminates a turning point in the art of the second half of the 20th century — the point of rupture in the postwar period, which created the artistic conditions for what we now know as “The Six…

Public Allowed to See Restoration of Dalí Painting at Museum in Rotterdam

ROTTERDAM.- Have you ever seen a famous painting being restored? This summer the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is letting everyone enjoy a process that is usually carried out behind closed doors. From mid-June the enornous painting Landscape with a Gir…

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