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The Met Fifth Avenue October 10, 2022–January 8, 2023 Opening October 10, the first exhibition in the United States focusing on art created during the Tudor dynasty will feature more than 100 paintings, tapestries, sculptures, and more From King Henry VII’s seizure of the throne in 1485 to the death of his granddaughter Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, England’s Tudor monarchs used art to legitimize and glorify their tumultuous reigns. On view at The Met from October 10, 2022, to January 8, 2023, The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England will trace the transformation of the arts under their rule through more than 100 objects—including iconic portraits, spectacular tapestries, manuscripts, sculpture, and armor—from both the Museum collection and international lenders.  The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. “This magnificent exhibition brings the stunning maj

  Helicline offers American and European modernist artwork from the first half of the 20th Century. Look at  HeliclineFineArt.com  for others. The core of our offerings are 1930s and 40s American art. The WPA era. Modernism.  Attached are seven work we are pleased to offer.. Some are depression era works. One shows the birth of television, a protest. family, the effects of war, a fight and more, All are figurative paintings and drawings that capture an era.    Daniel Celentano (1902 – 1980) Going to the Festival 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 Watercolor on paper, c. 1930s Signed lower left Robert Riggs (1896-1970) The Knockout 22 x 30 inches watercolor on paper Signed lower right Leon Bibel (1912-1995) Shattered 24 x 20 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1937 Estate stamp verso   Chris Ritter (American, 1906 – 1976) Animated Discourse 19 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper Signed lower left

  Most Comprehensive Study to Date on this Topic (New York, September 22, 2022)—Of the approximately thirty-four paintings attributed to Johannes Vermeer—whose extraordinary art has captivated viewers since his rediscovery in the nineteenth century—wall maps and other cartographic objects are depicted in nine of them, including The Frick Collection’s renowned  Officer and Laughing Girl  and the artist’s masterpiece in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum,  The Art of Painting . With stunning reproductions and incisive text, the Frick’s new publication,  Vermeer’s Maps , is the most comprehensive study of the artist's depiction of wall maps to date. Drawing on rare surviving examples of the physical maps and other primary sources, author Rozemarijn Landsman examines this intriguing aspect of Vermeer’s work, greatly enriching and expanding our understanding of the art and life of the “Sphinx of Delft.” As Landsman writes in the book’s introduct

 If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know I hardly ever watch the BBC these days. I keep mentioning that to account for my prolonged silences interspersed with off-topic observations..   However I have to comment on the reappearance of Abdel Bari Atwan, whose services I thought had been quietly   dispensed with by the BBC.   I was wrong. He was on Dateline again on 19th August, following the attack on Salman Rushdie. Melanie Phillips has written about this topic  as has the Jewish Chronicle   both citing the most outrageous of his remarks.   The BBC, of course, has no intention of reprimanding or silencing Atwan as they think he represents legitimate views, and letting him air them is an expression of the BBC’s even-handedness.   The problem is, however, that along with the rest of the left the BBC genuinely thinks it is indeed upholding balance, fairness and objectivity. It believes that it represents the political centre ground. That’s why it views its critics axioma

  The ancient animal, which was thought to be humans' earliest-known ancestor, may have lost the anus during evolution. New Open Thread (and if you don't like it, well, we have others.)