Archive for the ‘Art and Film’ Category
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
The Leighton Drawings Project aimed to catalogue, conserve, photograph and exhibit the collection of almost 700 drawings by Frederic Leighton at Leighton House Museum. It was carried out between 2005 and 2007 with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and can be accessed, along with a database of ...
Posted in Architecture, Art and Film, Frederic Lord Leighton, Leighton Drawings Project, Leighton House Museum, News & info | 16 Comments »
Saturday, July 29th, 2006
Love/Death: The Tristan Project
Now showing for free - at two venues: Haunch of Venison Yard and St. Olaf’s College - Tooley St. ( or what used to be the College) [ Adjacent to Tower Bridge Rd, London, SE1 2JR - nearest tube is London Bridge]
The Love/Death: Tristan Project is ...
Posted in Art and Film, Europe, Galleries and Exhibitions, London | 5 Comments »
Friday, June 30th, 2006
Undercover Surrealism explores the ’subversive climate’ of the dark undercurrent within Surrealism in the late 1920’s spearheaded by Georges Bataille. The exhibition draws together work by Picasso, Miro, Masson, Giacometti as well as imagery from the magazine Bataille edited from 1929 ...
Posted in Art and Film, Events, Hayward Gallery, London, Surrealism | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 28th, 2006
MOVIMIENTOS @ The Salmon and Compass -Thursday 4th May (7pm -2am)
"A politically inspired night of Latin boogie & documentary films on Latin America.
The finest in Afro-Latin, Boogaloo, Brazilian, Funk, Ska, Hip Hop, Reggaeton, Salsa, Cumbia, Bachata, Manguebeat, Tango, Drum and Bass, Broken Beats, Rhumba House, Electronica etc.....Music hosted by ...
Posted in Art and Film, Environment and eco-friendliness, Events, Latin America, London, News & info | No Comments »
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Virtual Uffizi: the complete catalogue of the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.
The "Virtual Uffizi" web site makes available all texts and most of the images, and provides information on the Gallery and on visits, buying tickets online etc. etc. Very useful and another step in the virtual museums/gallery ...
Posted in Art and Film, Florence, Galleries and Exhibitions, News & info, Renaissance Art, Uffizi Gallery, Virtual Museums, botticelli | No Comments »
Sunday, November 6th, 2005
Beautiful and haunting; full of pathos.
bonjour tristesse by françoise sagan: written over the summer of 1953.
autobiography: "Avec mon meilluer souvenir" published 1984
Posted in Art and Film, Books and Literary Things, News & info, Paris | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 31st, 2005
'Portrait of a Lady Far Away' was on this afternoon at 2.00 p.m. and sounded most interesting, if only i hadn't been at work! ah well - referred to as ' a dreamy, hallucinatory ride through Tehran by twilight' - it sounds worth holding on to for future ...
Posted in Art and Film, Iran, London, News & info | No Comments »
Friday, October 28th, 2005
on a lighter note..
i hear the Getty Villa in Malibu is opening next January. tickets are going to be available from november. ( the best thing is admission is FREE) the museum at the villa will be focusing on the study of the arts and cultures of ancient ...
Posted in Art and Film, Los Angeles, News & info | 12 Comments »
Monday, October 17th, 2005
"The master of the monstrous... the discoverer of the unconscious" --- Carl Jung, on Hieronymus Bosch
A Flemish painter ( circa 1450 - 1516) from the small Dutch town of Hertogenbosch, we know very little about this enigmatic character. The Surrealists were rather fond of him, and you can see ...
Posted in Art and Film, Old things | No Comments »
Thursday, June 30th, 2005
By Frederic Leighton 1871
The very image of perfect repose and glorious sleepy afternoons
Posted in Aesthetics, Art and Film, Flaming June, Frederic Lord Leighton, Imagery, Musings | No Comments »