
THE ARCHIVES -7
GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS
GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS
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MUSEUMS/GALLERIES:
A
lighting technician’s dream at London’s Albion Gallery. Walking into
the Albion Gallery, part of a new Norman Foster complex, is a little like
being in an architect’s model. Identical lined-up trees and vast empty spaces
create an air of anonymity. Turrell’s clean and apparently emotionless work,
though, is exactly the type of art that an architect might approve of
inhabiting such a model..
t37.MUSEUMS
AND EXHIBITIONS REVIEWS.
The Must See
Exhibitions. From
Delacroix to Matisse: Drawings from the Algiers Museum of Art.
The Algiers Museum of Fine
Arts houses a collection of 8,000 works, dating from the 14th to the 20th
century, including a Print Department with nearly 1,750 drawings and
engravings. A selection of around 60 French drawings, from the 19th and early
20th centuries, will give the public an idea of the wealth and diversity of
this collection that is little-known in France. On the one hand, the
exhibition will present works by “Orientalist” artists such as Chassériau,
Decamps...
t38.WORLD
MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS REVIEWS.
THE TREASURES OF THE 18th CENTURY AT THE
BRITISH MUSEUM. The 18th-century
Enlightenment was one of the great revolutionary moments in human history.
22.THE
VERY BEST OF NEW YORK:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
ENTERTAINERS, SINGERS, ARTISTS, ART EVENTS, SHOWS.
THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The Winners, the Losers, the Turkeys!!
MODERN ART IN IRAQ: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. LEADING FIGURES AND INTERNATIONAL
PERSONALITIES:
No country will ever survive if
its art dies. it the proper time to talk about Iraqi modern art
amidst the turbulent Iraq passage toward new political and social
metamorphoses? Absolutely, for nations were initially born through
the original expressions of individual and shared feelings, ideas,
concepts and ideologies transmitted and illustrated through the
medium of art. Equally true is the survival of nations and the
preservation of their heritage, history and national pride through
art in all its forms and styles.
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THE WORLD OF ART:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
THE BEST AND THE WORST: ART REALITY TV
SHOW? JEFFREY DEITCH'S "ARTSTAR" PROJECT: A JOKE OR HUMILIATION? PERHAPS,
BOTH!
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ART TODAY:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
MICHEL MAJERUS,
FLORENCE BIENNALE,
THE XIth TRIENNALE OF INDIA JOINS THE PRESTIGIOUS
FLORENCE BIENNALE.