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Tag Archives: Renoir
Dead Blogging ‘Avant-Garde Japanese Fashions’ And ‘Impressionists On The Water’ At PEM
Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Peabody Essex Museum over the weekend to catch Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion (through January 26, 2014) and Impressionists on the Water (through February 17, 2014), and, say, they were . . . underwhelming. From … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Caillebote, Claude Monet, Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion, Impressionists on the Water, Issey Miyake, Peabody Essex Museum, PEM, Radio Boston, Rei Kawakubo, Renoir, Sacha Pfeiffer, Sebastian Smee, Signac, Sisley, WBUR, Yohji Yamamoto
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Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Nazi Art Plundering Edition)
In their prime (which is to say the 1940s), the Nazis seized roughly 100,000 works of art – worth maybe $10 billion – from German families who happened to be Jewish. This is the story of 400 of those artworks … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Rosenberg, Braque, Cezanne, Marianne Rosenberg, Matisse, Nazi art plundering, New York Times, Norway, Paul Rosenberg, Picasso, Renoir, The Crusades
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CultureGrrl Whacks Boston’s MFA For Caille-Butt Acquisition
To all appearances, the Boston Museum of Fine Art’s eight-for-one swap to acquire Gustave Caillebotte’s “Man at His Bath” has gone over like the metric system. Exhibit A: Boston Globe columnist Scot Lehigh. Now wait a minute, Mr. Malcolm Rogers, … Continue reading
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Tagged ArtsJournal, Boston Globe, Caille-Butt, CultureGrrl, eight-for-one, Gauguin, Gustave Caillebotte, Man at His Bath, MFA, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Scot Lehigh, Sisley
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