Ai Weiwei Sculpture Purposefully Broken During Exhibition Opening in Italy
From ARTnews
A man destroyed a porcelain sculpture by Ai Weiwei seemingly on purpose during the opening reception of an exhibition dedicated to the Chinese dissident artist on Friday evening in Italy.
The destroyed work was Ai’s blue-and-white Porcelain Cube, which was included in a survey on Ai titled “Who am I?” at the Palazzo Fava in Bologna, which opened to the public on Saturday.
London calling: Claude Monet’s views of the Thames – in pictures
From The Guardian
Claude Monet visited London three times between 1899 and 1901, when he became fascinated by the views of the Thames from the balcony of his suite at the Savoy hotel. In an attempt to capture the light at specific times of day, he painted the views towards Waterloo Bridge, the Houses of Parliament and Charing Cross Bridge, later completing the paintings when he was back in France. “The blurring, or merging, of water and sky created by the fog fascinated Monet,” […] “He would remember this blurring for his famous water lily paintings, which he began after his return from London.”
Van Gogh in Provence: ‘There was both a growing mastery in his work and a growing deliberation over what went into it’
From Christie’s
The first ever Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery in London suggests that he was not so much a tortured genius as an artist who planned his work meticulously and thought deeply about its execution and meaning. The show’s co-curator, Cornelia Homburg, explains why
Featuring more than 60 works, Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, a new exhibition at London’s National Gallery, focuses on the years that Vincent van Gogh spent in the south of France — in Arles and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence — between February 1888 and May 1890. The period resulted in pictures of remarkable originality and expressiveness, such as the ‘Sunflowers’ series and two ‘Starry Night’ paintings, which are among the best-known works in all of modern art.
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