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Murillo: From Heaven to Earth

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September 18, 2022—January 29, 2023 Kimbell Art Museum  | The Kimbell Art Museum presents  Murillo: From Heaven to Earth , a comprehensive exhibition of works by Spanish Golden Age painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682). The leading religious painter of Seville during his time, Murillo is primarily known for his depictions of the life of Christ, Christian saints, and other Biblical scenes, including monumental paintings of the Virgin in celestial glory. While  Murillo: From Heaven to Earth  includes a number of these religious paintings, its focus is instead on his earthly pictures of secular subjects and representations of everyday life in the 17th century, which constitute some of the artist’s most iconic pictures. Guillaume Kientz, director of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York and former curator of European art at the Kimbell, serves as curator for the exhibition, which will be seen only at the Kimbell. On view from Septem

Edward Hopper’s New York

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  Edward Hopper’s New York , on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from October 19, 2022, through March 5, 2023 , offers an unprecedented examination of Hopper’s life and work in the city that he called home for nearly six decades (1908–67). The exhibition charts the artist’s enduring fascination with the city through more than 200 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings from the Whitney’s preeminent collection of Hopper’s work, loans from public and private collections, and archival materials including printed ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and notebooks. From early sketches to paintings from his late in his career,  Edward Hopper’s New York  reveals a vision of the metropolis that is as much a manifestation of Hopper himself as it is a record of a changing city, whose perpetual and sometimes tense reinvention feels particularly relevant today. Instantly recognizable paintings featured in the exhibition, such as  Automat  (1927),  Early Sunday Morning  (

Some truths

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Emily Maitlis’s truth. Following in the footsteps of Dorothy Byrne (formerly of Channel Four ,)   Emily Maitlis (formerly of the BBC) delivered the MacTaggart memorial lecture at the Edinburgh International TV festival.  Emily Maitlis wants a  Remainer BBC by Tom Slater   "What’s striking about Maitlis’s critique, which has been curdling among elite Remainer media for a while, is that it essentially posits attempts at impartiality as bias. Maitlis certainly struck a chord. “The BBC is biased!” screeched everybody under the sun. Fact! However, trawling through the wide spectrum of tittle-tattle online, it seems that half the commenters agreed with Emily that the BBC is biased to the right, and the other half agreed with   - well- us - that the BBC is biased to the left. (‘Half-and-half’ may not be strictly mathematical) I’ll just throw in the following quote for the hell of it because it tickled me. "Channel 4 boss Ian Katz has said he thought Maitli