Poland to let da Vinci work hit the road
It's finally been decided: Poland's most precious painting, "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci, will be allowed to travel to Spain, Germany and Britain.
THE (SUR)REAL LIFE: Multitude of Dalà prints hit museum
Salvador Dalà called himself a classicist. Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, says the man whose melted clocks and darling persona made him the face of surrealism in America returned to Catholicism and Fascist Spain after his ideological excommunication by French writer and poet André Breton. “Dalà was flamboyant, [...]
Evelyne Politanoff: Balenciaga And Spain, The Art Of Cristobal Balenciaga At de Young Museum
Cristobal Balenciaga: " His name became synonymous with perfection and elegance." ~ Baroness Pauline de Rothschild, 1973 On March 26, 2011, the Balenciaga and Spain will open at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
Latino Film Fest takes a pan-American view
The 27th annual Chicago Latino Film Festival kicks off Friday with the Argentina/Spain co-production “No Return†with director Miguel Cohan attending a party afterward. Presented by International Latino Cultural Center and featuring over 100 titles, the fest aims to “create a cultural dialogue among Latinos and non-Latinos†via films from north, central and south America, as well as Spain and ...
EUR Book Look (Photos): Lyle Ashton Harris' Excessive Exposure: The Complete Chocolate Portraits
*Gregory R. Miller & Co. is pleased to announce the publication of Lyle Ashton Harris’ Excessive Exposure. This exquisitely produced monograph collects in a single volume all of the “chocolate colored†portraits photographed by New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris with a large-format (20†x 24â€) Polaroid camera over the past decade. Featuring an introduction [...]