The guitarist, singer and songwriter Melody Gardot was born in New Jersey in 1985. She took piano lessons and, as a teenager, performed in small venues in and around Philadelphia. She was studying fashion and art at the Community College of Philadelphia in 2003 when she was hit by an SUV while riding a bicycle. She suffered pelvic, spinal and head injuries and ended up in a hospital bed for ...

Das LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster zeigt seit dem 20. September 2024 und noch bis am 2. Februar 2025 die Ausstellung Otto Mueller. Der gleichnamige Katalog, dem die hier folgenden Informationen entnommen wurden, erschien im Verlag E. A. Seemann, 2024, 224 Seiten mit 146 Farbabbildungen. Den Katalog bestellen bei Amazon.de. Bereits 2019 erschien ...

Jun 1, 2022 · Until September 4, 2022 the work of the Chinese artist, human rights activist and critic of authoritarian systems Ai Weiwei (*1957 in Beijing) can be discovered at the Albertina Modern museum at Karlsplatz 5 in Vienna in his most comprehensive retrospective to date. Guest curator Dieter Buchhart, together with Elsy Lahner, assembled a unique show presenting 144 objects. Here comes my book ...

Jun 16, 2024 · Agnes Denes A giant work by the eco-pioneer and landart master Agnes Denes, born in Budapest in 1931, ornates the Art Basel entrance at Messeplatz (photograph on top of this page). In 1982, she had created Wheatfield – A Confrontation. Back then, the iconic environmental work sponsored by the Public Art Fund pitted two acres (8,000 square meters) of golden wheat planted and harvested in the ...

On June 17, 2023 at the invitation of Norberto Gomes, Artistic Director of the Madeira Classical Orchestra, Christoph Poppen conducted the Madeira Classical Orchestra through a program consisting of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Maria von Weber and Johannes Brahms. The conductor told me that what holds the program together is the fact that both Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont (op. 84 ...

Agnes Denes A giant work by the eco-pioneer and landart master Agnes Denes, born in Budapest in 1931, ornates the Art Basel entrance at Messeplatz (photograph on top of this page). In 1982, she had created Wheatfield – A Confrontation. Back then, the iconic environmental work sponsored by the Public Art Fund pitted two acres (8,000 square meters) of golden wheat planted and harvested in the ...

May 15, 2021 · The Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung in Zurich—the fruit of a private initiative by a group of far-sighted and enterprising art lovers and launched while Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was still alive—provided the basis for the extraordinary Giacometti collection at the Kunsthaus Zürich. The collection is still growing thanks to additional, …

Sep 24, 2022 · Curated by Dieter Buchhart and Antonia Hoerschelmann, the Basteihalle Albertina retrospective Jean-Michel Basquiat. Of Symbols and Signs presents in Vienna from September 9, 2022 until January 8, 2023 some 50 works by the great American artist who died too young (1960-1988). The homonymous Prestel catalogue (English edition: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr; German edition ...

Les années folles sont un âge d’or pour les paquebots, des palaces flottants qui sont les seuls véritables traits d’union entre la vieille Europe et les Etats-Unis. Ce catalogue est publié à l’occasion de l’exposition Paquebots 1913-1942. Une esthétique transatlantique, présentée au Musée d’arts de Nantes du 25 octobre 2024 au 23 février 2025 et au MuMa – musée d’art ...

Following the merger of three important Winterthur collections to form the Kunst Museum Winterthur and the March 23, 2024 official reopening of Villa Flora after a renovation which cost CHF 11 million, a lavishly illustrated catalogue book with substantial essays presents 200 highlights of the three museums collected over many decades by the Kunstverein Winterthur, the Oskar Reinhart ...