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Loyala University Museum of Art, Chicago Illinois USA


http://www.caravaggio.rai.it/index_en.htm


Caravaggio: una mostra impossibile (Caravaggio: an impossible exhibit)
October 8, 2005 - February 11, 2006
Produced by RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana and the Regione Campania, this remarkable exhibition is a retrospective of the work of renowned Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi (known as Caravaggio), presented true-to-size on illuminated glass panels using high-resolution digital technology.

The exhibition makes it possible for the first time in history to view the entire collection of Caravaggio's paintings, a feat otherwise impossible, since the cultural institutions and private collectors who own the originals have become more reluctant to let these fragile and valuable works travel.

this is interesting - you can flick through his entire works online through the link (the show in London was amazing)

Hmmm, I'll have to give it a look through.
I lucked out on a trip to Rome in 1999, landing there when many of his big paintings were on exhibit at the Barberini Palace gallery. Plus, Rome is full of Caravaggios tucked about here and there.

I read a recently published book about the relatively recent finding of a small Caravaggio painting, quite an interesting account. I forget the name of the book - and the painting - at the moment, but I'll come back and post a link.



Later -

a2k Amazon link for Jonathan Harr's The Lost Painting

looks an interesting book

I saw the Caravaggion exhibition in London - brilliant, There is nothing like standing in front of the real thing is there Osso? reproductions can't begin to catch the experience

No, there isn't. I also do love to see art in context, the few times that I get to do that - as in a Cimabue crucifix in San Domenico in Arezzo, or a Caravaggio in Santa Maria del Populo...
or, more current, some of the art that pops up in cities as ephemeral street art. Can't think of an example right this minute, but I've had the appreciation for some of it, very much art in context.

Yes, I know what you mean and it does add an extra dimension, sometimes it is diminished in another setting.

I'd really liked to see this exhibition - but since I won't be in London again before (late) summer/autumn ...



Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
London, South Bank Center, Hayward Gallery
19 Jan - 02 Apr 2006

Their website - see link above - links to a microsite with an online installation! Plus a lot of (smaller) pics from Flavin's works. Great site!


ArtCyclopedia: Dan Flavin Online

Before the exhibition was on show e.g. at the National Gallery

The British Museum today unveiled details of its forthcoming exhibition devoted to the drawings of Michelangelo.



Michelangelo's Drawings : Closer to the Master opens in March. It is the first exhibition by the Reannaissance artitst at the British Museum for 30 years, offering a comprehensive study of his life from the earliest pen drawings to the late, haunting Crucifixions.
The exhibitions aims to provide insight into the development of some of his greatest projects including the Sistine Chapel, the Last Judgement and the Medici Tombs.
Key works include studies for the Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel, studies for the fgure of Day from the Medici Tombs and Flying Angels from the Last Judgement.
As well as works from the British Museum there will be exhibits from the Ashmolean in Oxford and Teyler Museum in the Netherlands. This will be the first time that this work has been reunited since the sidpersal of Michelangelo's studio in 1564.
Reinforcing Michelangelo's stature as a true Renaissance man, his drawings will ne joined by paintngs from the National Gallery, sculptural models and classical busts.
Letters on loan from the Britsih Library give an insight into the artist's thinking as well as his pricky nature.

(Typed from the Evening Standard, January 29, 2006, Westend Final, page 23; link added)

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/Munch.html

New York City, Museum of Modern Art (MOCA)

Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul



http://www.whitespacegallery.co.uk/

London, White Space Gallery

Jose Pedro Cortes, Portuguese photographer



http://www.yvon-lambert.com/

Paris

Joan Jonas, Glenn Ligon



http://www.sfmoma.org/

San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art

Chuck Close



http://www.moca.org/index.php

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Avenue

Masters of American Comics

Ooooh, a Dan Flavin retrospective... I bet that was fun.

The Michaelangelo exhibit looks interesting too.

Cézanne and Pissarro 1865-1885, from February 28 to May 28, 2006 at the Musée d'Orsay (was on exhibition before in New York, Museum of Modern Art, and Los Angeles, County Museum).

I'll see it next Thursday (or on the following days) :wink:

Hi ossobuco and friends, have a look to Frankfurt:

http://www.schirn-kunsthalle.de/

Have been there last Thursday ... and stayed the whole afternoon until late evening in totaliter in the museum (it's a late closing day on Thursdays).

Well, there are really dozens of paintings by Cézanne and Pissaro, in that exhibition but still a few left in the museum itself.

If someone is very keen on green ...

Photographed ALL the Monets there - Mrs. Walter likes him very much (smuggled two or three different in them, though :wink: ).

The Musée d'Orsay definetely is a MUST be seen in Paris!

The thread about my visit in Paris with lots of pics from the Musée d'Orsay is here.

just went to the picasso and africa exhibition at the standard bank gallery in downtown Jo' burg, interesting. Picasso kinda leaves me cold though.

Hi, Mistral. Thanks for that link on the Schirn Kunsthalle - the show on Capturing the Streets looks particularly interesting to me.

Walter, I'm going right over to your Paris thread...

Tagged, lots of us on a2k have been left cold by Picasso, that scamp. I'm pretty cold about him too - but his work was part of a big change in how we look and see, or maybe a big change in how we depict how we look and see. Others can speak about him much more knowledgeably than I can.

11,000 advance bookings!!! (Previous record was the Persia exhibition with 3,670 advance bookings.)





(Both pics from the Evenening Standard, Monday March 20, 2006, page 3)

There is a show coming up in Santa Fe, New Mexico at a gallery called SITE that will feature some young German artists who are spoken of as The Leipzig School.

I found the review interesting, and plan to google some of their work - I gather they've had several shows in Europe and the US.

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/42598.html

I don't know if you have to register to read the article - tell me if you have to and don't want to, and I'll cut and paste some of it.

Art of Etching at Crown Point Press
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica
http://www.bobbiegreenfieldgallery.com/site/currentexhibition?show=45

nudes!
see next exhibit...
http://www.stephencohengallery.com/

Girodet at the NY Met until August 17th
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={0E613E0B-C1A1-478C-A277-A75BD0EAC775}&HomePageLink=special_c3b

Constable at the Tate Modern until August 28th
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/constable/

Tickets for the first Velázquez exhibition in Britain (from October 18) can be booked now at the National Gallery

I'm a fool for Velasquez, would like to see that exhibit...