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Now Showing
Americans in Paris 1860 -
1900
National
Gallery, London
22
February to 21 May 2006.
Boston
Museum of Art
Opens
Monday, June 19, 2006 – undetermined close date
Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
October
17, 2006–January 28, 2007
Paris was the centre of the art world in the 19th century,
and a magnet for American art students and artists, eager to experience
the cosmopolitan delights of the city and to steep themselves in its
artistic atmosphere.
For the first time in Britain, this exhibition looks at why American
artists were drawn to Paris, what they produced there, and how their
art changed.
The exhibition includes well-known artists - James McNeill Whistler,
John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt - and others who will largely be
unknown to audiences here, including Cecilia Beaux, Elizabeth Nourse
and Theodore Robinson.
Highlights include Whistler's 'White
Girl' from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Sargent's
astonishing painting of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit,
from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and his notorious 'Madame X' from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
'Americans in Paris 1860 - 1900' is organised by the National Gallery,
London and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in association with The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Go to)
Make sure you see Special Features (Go to)
Off the Pedestal: New
Women in the Art of Homer, Chase and Sargent
3/20/2006
This is
the first exhibition to explore why images of women portrayed as
intelligent, radical and controversial when they first appeared in the
second half of the 19th century. Make sure you exlore the verious
web-pages: The Gilded
Cage, Forces of
Change, Women
Outdoors, Thinking
Women, etc etc.
The Newark
Museum
March 18 -- June 18, 2006
(Go to)
Sarah
Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama
The Jewish
Museum, New
York
December 02, 2005 - April 02, 2006 (Go to)
An aptly titled
exhibition for a remarkable woman. See Srah Bernhardt at the JSS
Gallery
(Go to)
Sargent Record
George Sargent
3/16/2006
I have a book on Sargents passed down to me from my father
who had it passed down from my grandfather.
There are 330
Pages in the book that means that there will eventually be something
like 660 scans (Go to)
Uwe Rasch
3/16/2006
I
wrote to you a few weeks ago with regard to the Henry Tonks drawing
"The unknown God". Your text claims that Roger Fry is holding
up a dead cat. Is this your own description or did you find this
somwhere else. (Go to)
Vincent Lebel
3/16/2006
I
am the grand-grand son of Edmond Lebel (1834-1908), a
french painter friend of Carolus-Duran during their stay in Rome
(1860-1863) at the famous Villa Medicis. The portrait [you have]
called: "Tete the bearded man 1862" is actually a portrait of
Edmond Lebel (Go to)
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Natasha's Blog
Natasha
the Ex-Seamstress
3/16/2006
I have been on the
Internet now for over Seven years – almost seven and a half to be
exact, and I am touched by the attention I have received. As the
gallery continues to flourish with people using it –
reading it – enjoying it – studying it – referencing it. It has become,
many have said, internationally known as The Standard.
<Natasha slowly shakes head>
But one does not manage
to achieve this without forming some opinions about the nature of the
Internet in general. Opinions by which things should surely change. I
suppose, given the position you readers have given me (a kind of “Lady
High Editor of everything Sargent” -- shall we say) that
not only am I entitled, but some might even say obligated, to express
some of these considered opinions as to what should be done from this
point forward.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am touched by this reception and responsibility
thrust upon me. As I am called upon to act professionally, across the
Internet, I am happy to think that there will be no difficulty in
finding plenty of people whose LOSS will be a
distinct GAIN
to the digital community at large.
<music
starts from nowhere, and Natasha breaks into song>
As some day
it may happen that a victim must be found,/
I've got a little list --I've got a little
list/
Of Internet offenders who might well
be underground,/
And who NEVER would be missed --who NEVER
would be missed!/
There is the professional spammers who clog
all our In-box--/
And everyone at Microsoft who fight our
dear Firefox--/
All sites that pretend to give us content in
order to advertise--/
All persons who load their pages with Flash
in hope to mesmerize--/
And those very long, stupidly-complex,
computer generated URLs/
They'd none of 'em be missed --they'd none
of 'em be missed!/
<Chorus of Fifteen Men>
She's got 'em on the list -- she's got 'em
on the list;/
And they'll none of 'em be missed --they'll
none of 'em be missed./
<Natasha>
There's the people who sell art on Ebay, and
the others of their race,/
And the so-called art aficionados, I've got
them on the list!/
And the people who read news-feeds and puff
it in your face,/
They never would be missed, they never would
be missed!/
Then the idiot who praises, with
enthusiastic tone,/
All centuries but this, and every region but
their own;/
And that lady from the provinces, who
sometimes dresses like an guy,/
And who isn't much of an intellectual, but
would "rather like to try";/
And that singular anomaly, the lady
bloggerist--/
I don't think she'd be missed. I'm sure
she'd not be missed!/
<Chorus of Fifteen Men>
Natasha's got her on the list --Tasha's got
her on the list;/
And I don't think she'll be missed -- I'm
sure/
She'll not be missed!/
<Natasha>
And that web designer whose sloppy code is
rather
rife--/
Which can't conform to any standards
although try as they might--/
And those editor's that never learned to
spell--/
Whose lines clang and clunk like a cowbell --/
Not to worry,
they're definitely on the list!/
All artists, historians, and poets in
private
life --/
People who paint in watercolors and post
them on a site/
They'd none of 'em be missed -- they'd none
of 'em be missed./
And those scads of common folk who are apt
at self expression –-/
Where, dear Lord, did they come from?/
Such as What-d'ye-call-him -- Thing'em-bob,
and likewise --oh Never-mind,/
I'm sure you get the gist/
The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather
leave to you./
Our cultural institutions should be run by just a few./
The Internet needs to be a properly
ordered place--/
They'd none of 'em be missed --they'd none of 'em be missed!/
Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan and "The Mikado" (Go to)” -- Little List (Go to)
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