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Le Parc and his light installations, retrospective at Tate Modern on 11 June

The artist Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of the second wave of kinetic art, died in Paris on 30 May at the age of 97. Le Parc worked with light, mirrors, movement and optical effects: suspended mobiles, vibrating light installations, mirrored rooms, environments of projected light that "came to

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Brooklyn artist Jeremy Olson dresses the windows of the Hermès flagship on Madison Avenue in New York as a surrealist installation: a body sinking into a sofa, surrounded by biomorphic furniture and lamps

Brooklyn artist Jeremy Olson has dressed the windows of the Hermès flagship on Madison Avenue in New York as a surrealist installation: a body sinking into a sofa, surrounded by biomorphic furniture and lamps. Hermès wanted to play on its signature motifs and the equestrian theme, hence the appearance of

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Giuseppe Sanmartino’s sculpture “Veiled Christ” in the Sansevero Chapel in Naples

The Veiled Christ, 1753. In Italian the sculpture is known as “Cristo velato” The sculpture was to have been carved by Antonio Corradini, but after his death, when only a terracotta sketch remained, it was decided that the project would be completed by Giuseppe Sanmartino, who was 33 years old

Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Museums

Interestingly, the painting "Allegory of Hearing", executed in 1617–1618 by the Flemish artists Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, captures not merely a collection of curiosities and luxuries belonging to the rulers of the Netherlands…

Interestingly, the painting "Allegory of Hearing", executed in 1617–1618 by the Flemish artists Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, captures not merely the collection of curiosities and luxuries belonging to the rulers of the Netherlands, Archduke Albert VII and his wife Isabella, but also music

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Although the majority of Rio de Janeiro's population is Afro-Brazilian, fewer than 10% of the city's public monuments are dedicated to Black people

Know what solution they came up with? Since 2018, a group of artists has been painting murals across Rio with portraits of figures of Afro-Brazilian culture, each placed at a spot where the person in question once lived

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On 8 July Christie's will auction a rarest illuminated manuscript of the early fourteenth century, the Clermont-Tonnerre Grail, containing the first three texts of the Lancelot cycle

The estimate for the book is £1.5–2 million. The manuscript has spent 700 years in private hands, has never been publicly exhibited and has never been studied academically. It is now the earliest of the three privately owned copies of the cycle among the two hundred or so

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Artists Jest

Artists Jest. Vasily Vereshchagin

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Allegory of Justice Trampling Deceit and Protecting a Woman with a Child and a Boy

Dutch Golden Age, c. 1651/53, Baroque artist Gabriël Metsu. Mauritshuis collection, The Hague. On long-term loan since 2019 to the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden

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Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, El Greco, before 1570

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I have been to the Georges de La Tour exhibition "Between Shadow and Light" at the Musée Jacquemart-André five times, and each time there was a queue at the door, but if I could get in once more, I would gladly go

I have been to the Georges de La Tour exhibition "Between Shadow and Light" at the Musée Jacquemart-André five times, and each time there was a queue at the door, but if I could get in once more, I would gladly go. So I am determined not

Archaeology · The East · Art · Museums

Snake-legged giants on a 2nd century BC relief from Aphrodisias in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum

The Greeks called the battle of the Olympian gods against the giants a Gigantomachy: creatures born of the earth who rose against the new divine order. The photograph shows a fragment of a relief of the 2nd century BC from Aphrodisias. It is now kept in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

Black and white image of a face: hair of paper strips, eyes, nose and mouth of wire, and sprigs of lily of the valley along the face.

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Portrait of flowers and wire made without a camera on photographic material

Photogram "Lilies of the Valley", Varvara Rodchenko, 1990. The image was produced photochemically, but without a camera. Flowers and wire were laid upon the photographic material and lit so that their shadow was imprinted