Artremis - Art Events & Reviews

	The Billionaire Effect What happens when a superrich buyer enters the art market?
	3-D Illusions Julian Beever, Pavement Picasso
	Beyond the Myth, Art Endures The largest retrospective ever of Frida Kahlo’s work appears at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and commemorates the 100th anniversary of her birth. Exhibition at Museo Frida Kahlo in Coyoacán that runs to Sept. 30, 2007.
	ART In a Tug of War, Ancient Statue Is Symbol of Patrimony A statue has become a blazing symbol of Italy’s legal and moral battle against foreign museums and private collectors.
	ART “Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries” A glowing exhibit gathers objects from the era when Portugal was a world power. Till Sept. 16, 2007 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington.
	ARCHITECTURE A Luxury Condo by Arty Architects From the Fringe Aren’t the architects of Asymptote a bit too avant-garde for a luxury condo building in the West Village? Images from the Asymptote's new condo project on Perry Street in Manhattan.
	FRANCE The Glory of France, Restored to Louis XIV’s Glittering Ideal This week, after a $16 million makeover, the full spectacle of the Château de Versailles finally resumed, with The Hall of Mirrors looking, as closely as possible, the way it first appeared to Louis XIV in 1684.
	VATICAN Normally a sanctuary of scholarly meditation, the Vatican Library has been the scene of unusually hectic activity lately, as word has spread that it will close in July 2007 for a three-year renovation.
	ART 'Spanish Painting From El Greco to Picasso' The Guggenheim Museum’s tapas sampler of a show offers star power and finesse. (Till 28 March 2007)
	ART Walking among iron giants [Magdalena Abakanowicz's] Gift to Grant Park 'not a decoration'
	The Starbucks Aesthetic Can the ubiquitous retailer be a serious cultural arbiter? Don’t laugh; you might spill that $6 Frappuccino.
	ART “Americans in Paris: 1860-1900” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, covers a period in art when the United States was a buyer rather than a seller of cultural influence.
	ART John Constable’s Great Landscapes Nature, love and fear are the substance of an exhibit of works by John Constable on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
	ART The Merchant of Modernism ‘Cézanne to Picasso’ at the Met The star of the show at the Metropolitan Museum is not any of the artists, but a dealer.
	'Gospel of Judas' Surfaces After 1,700 Years The text gives new insights into the relationship of Jesus and the disciple who betrayed him. The last page of the manuscript, which scholars consider the most significant ancient text to be found in the past 60 years.
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	ART Pierre Bonnard Retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris
	Travel The Bounty of Rome
	ART 'Amorous Intrigues and Painterly Refinement' Van Mieris Returns to Center Stage at the National Gallery
	TRAVEL Vienna
	ART Goya, Unflinching, Defied Old Age "Goya's Last Works" exhibit (till May 14 '06) at the Frick Collection, NYC
	ART Russian City's Sacred and Secular Visions (A cogent and propulsive show at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore illuminates the secular and the religious life of Novgorod.)
	ART Florence Journal Blush if You Must, for Art's Sake, but Don't Panic (The Museo degli Argenti in Italy is hosting a major exhibit on mythology and erotica.)
	ART Renaissance Radiance, Gilded in Gothic (Fra Angelico)
	ART The Barnes Revises Attributions of Old Masters
	POLAND Joanna Olczak-Ronikier ("In the Garden of Memory: A Memoir") (Tending the Memories of an Enduring Polish Family)


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