Can a single book, no matter how weighty, ever even begin to cover 30,000 years of art history? One is attempting to, and if the reaction of two UK critics is any indication, it succeeds in conveying scope, even if it does twist all 30,000 years to fit what is “currently an extremely fashionable stance.”
Tag: 10.23.07
How Collectors Can Change The Course Of Art
“An exhibition that has just opened at the Royal Academy serves as a reminder of how one man, buying against the tide of fashion, almost single-handedly put the ‘great’ back into British art.” As it happens, the collector (who sports a famous name in the art world) is an American…
Russian Art Claims Could Interfere With Exhibit
“More than 100 masterpieces of art from the great Russian museums – the vast majority of which have never been seen in Britain – are being lined up for an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, early next year… [But] a potential cloud hangs over the show: possible legal claims could be made on the priceless pictures.”
Something Old, Something New
The Philadelphia Theatre Company moves into a new home this week. “The architecture of the new theater – the first major arts venue to open on South Broad Street since the Kimmel Center in 2001 – was a conscious act of preserving what everyone liked about the old space, the Plays and Players Theatre, built in 1912.”