july feature Archive

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    Jitish Kallat Gives Public Notice in the US

    On September 11, 1893, the Parliament of the World’s Religions held its inaugural gathering at the Art Institute of Chicago. The purpose was to create a global dialogue and conversation […]

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    Invention and Reinvention in the French Renaissance

    Many early perceptions of French culture saw France as “a secondary player or latecomer” to the Renaissance. Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, edited by Martha Wolff, asserts that French aristocrats and artists formed their artistic identity “by means of selective assimilation” and deserves a place as an originator of the Renaissance.

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    The Invention of France: Happy Bastille Day!

    Before the trois-couleurs, before the Eiffel Tower, before the Larousse Gastronomique, a 15th-century artist named Jean Fouquet was at work creating images that were utterly and exclusively French – though, at that time, saying “That is so… French!” might not have been very meaningful to many people. In a new book entitled Jean Fouquet and the Invention of France: Art and Nation after the Hundred Years War, Erik Inglis shows us that Fouquet was, in fact, shaping a national identity through his court painting for Charles VII and Louis XI.

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    Midnight in Paris

    If you’ve seen Woody Allen’s recent movie, Midnight in Paris, then you know the protagonist gets to live a fantasy: experiencing Paris in the 1920s. See a roundup selection of Yale ARTbooks on artists, writers, and collectors of the avant-garde Parisian Jazz Age.

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    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to Launch Amazing New Digital Archive

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and its research institute, the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), have announced that they will launch a landmark project in […]

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    Yale Collects Gertrude Stein

    Last weekend at SFMOMA was the opening of “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde”, an exhibition showcasing the energy, creativity, and artistic patronage of the Stein family: […]

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