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The Other Crtics: Pete Wells Digs Osso Buco at Caravaggio; Tejal Rao Says Alder Is the Real Deal

Alder! In the latest issue of New York, Adam Platt sized up the revamped menu at Montmarte. The critic gave two stars for the standouts at Gabriel Stulman and Tien Ho's Chelsea brasserie, like the fusion-y "pot-au-phô" with slices of "rosy pink sirloin" dispatched in a rich, deftly spiced oxtail broth, and an "elegant" kale tart. Show More Summary

Caravaggio Paintings: St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy

The fame of Caravaggio paintings is particularly astonishing given the brevity of his life, a mere 38 years (1571-1610). Equally awe-inspiring are the accomplishments of this pioneer of Baroque paintings: Caravaggio revolutionized contemporary...Show More Summary

The Latest and Best Free Android Apps From XDA Developers: Get Great Apps Before Your Friends

If you're like me, scoring a great program feels like discovering Picasso or Caravaggio for the first time — but finding gems requires installing a lot of really bad software. XDA makes the discovery process much easier by highlighting praiseworthy apps. Show More Summary

Travel links: SDMA and Caravaggio?

2 months agoArts : Modern Art Notes

I’m traveling through April 14. Meanwhile: Might the San Diego Museum of Art have a Caravaggio, or part of one? I discussed that with soon-to-be-ex-SDMA curator John Marciari. (His wife Julia Marciari-Alexander will soon assume the directorship of the Walters Art Museum.)

Eye Candy for Today: Caravaggio’s Medusa

Medusa, Cagavaggio Merisi On the Google Art Project. Click in the lower right of the image for zoom controls. The original is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Students of drawing and anatomy may notice that the mouth of the Medusa is painted as if from a head that is facing the viewer almost directly, [...]

Antoine Fuqua: My First Big Break

So what happens when you take a kid from Pittsburgh, PA, put him in the wrong place at the wrong time, sprinkle in some college basketball, a little Caravaggio, some Akira Kurosawa and a few rap music videos? Antoine Fuqua, directorShow More Summary

Souvenir Of The Week: World's First Duckface

2 months agoLifestyle / Travel : Gadling

Among the Michelangeos, the Raphaels, the Caravaggios and other Renaissance masterpieces at the The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, open to the public since 1591, one Bottecelli painting, Portrait of a Young Man With a Medal, captures an unidentified subject's "boo-yah" moment posing with a medallion of some sort. Show More Summary

First exhibition in over two decades to trace Caravaggio's impact on European art opens in Hartford

2 months agoArts : Artdaily

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will bring together five of Caravaggio?s extraordinary paintings in an exhibition that traces his tremendous influence on seventeenth?century European art. Burst of Light: Caravaggio and His Legacy...Show More Summary

Caravaggio is boldly painted with music at LACMA

3 months agoArts : Culture Monster

Early music is played in the galleries and a ballet inspired by the painter is performed. An element is missing, though. Caravaggio is a great subject for music. There are fascinating parallels between the way the artist helped usher...Show More Summary

Dark Secrets

3 months agoArts / Dance : Danceviewtimes

"Caravaggio Meets Hopper", "Threshold", "Butterflies and Demons", "Zjawa", "Suspended Women" Buglisi Dance Theatre The Joyce Theater New York, New York February 6, 2013 by Mary Cargill copyright © 2013 by Mary Cargill Jacqulyn Buglisi...Show More Summary

Pencil This In: Free 'Silver Linings Playbook' Screening, Mackendrick At REDCAT, 'Caravaggio' Ballet Premiere At LACMA

Tonight is all talk. Well, almost. Discussions on gaming, women in society and art, Silver Linings Playbook and director Alexander Mackendrick are all happening around town this evening. And there's even a national ballet premiere in the mix. Read on for the details. [ more › ]

Five Apps to Take Your iPad Art From Boring to Beautiful

If your iPad doodles are a little primitive, there are a few apps that can get you canvasing the art greats from Caravaggio to Picasso and creating some deft original strokes of your own. So says Sumit Vishwakarma in a talk for Macworld/iWorld 2013, adding that if you’re willing to forgo one cinnamon latte at [...]Show More Summary

Caravaggio and His Legacy in Los Angeles . . . errr what you doing here?

Does Baroque art burn more calories than other genres? What did that couple in leather pants say about Mary Magdalene looking hot?  Was Luca Giordan0 the first street artist? Is linseed oil more environmentally friendly than egg tempura? These are questions that naturally occur when seeing a Caravaggist exhibition in LA.  I’m kidding...  sort [...]

Explore one of the great art galleries with Uffizi Touch

The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy is one of the great art treasure houses of the world. Construction began in 1560, and now it is home to thousands of paintings and statues from Renaissance artists like da Vinci, Caravaggio and Rembrandt. Show More Summary

Museum talks on Caravaggio's cameras, Van Gogh's paints and more

5 months agoArts : Culture Monster

Did Caravaggio use optical devices — essentially transforming his studio into a giant camera obscura — to make his paintings?

Palazzo Milesi Vases

Vessels bearing classical motifs, first painted at the end of the Renaissance; reproduced as engravings in the Mannerist style "When Polidoro da Caravaggio arrived in Rome around 1515, possibly untrained, he was hired to carry plaster for Raphael's workshop in the Vatican. Show More Summary

Peter Clothier: Caravaggio and His Legacy

Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy studies that moment in art history when artists began to break away from aesthetic traditions and take a dive into the real-life physical and emotional drama of human existence.

Might San Diego have a Caravaggio after all?

5 months agoArts : Modern Art Notes

It is not often that eight Caravaggios are exhibited together at an American art museum. It provides opportunity: To study the paintings themselves, to compare them to each other, to see what the Caravaggisti borrowed from the master and to see what they merely tried to borrow.  Sometimes, as in the case of LACMA’s “Bodies [...]

The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Helen Langdon

5 months agoArts : Modern Art Notes

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Caravaggio biographer and art historian Helen Langdon. The Kimbell Art Museum and the Yale University Press have just published “Caravaggio’s Cardsharps: Trickery and Illusion,” a smart, richly illustrated 74-page book on the great Caravaggio in the Kimbell’s collection. Show More Summary

An unprecedented eight Caravaggio paintings on view together for the first time in California

6 months agoArts : Artdaily

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy, an exhibition devoted to the legacy of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 ? 1610), one of the most influential painters in European history. Show More Summary

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