An Art-Accustomed Eye: John Gibbs and Art
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CARDIFF, WALES.- What inspires someone to collect art - money, fame, personal pleasure? Art collector, psychologist and educationalist, Dr John Gibbs (1912 -1996) believed visual art could provide a powerful ...
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The renewed appetite for art as an investment is drawing attention to a small number of scholars who have been applying economics to this new asset class.
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An exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, through Feb. 4, 2007, explores painter's works.
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It's not often that you come across a Caravaggio or Van Gogh while walking around London's Soho, but for the next 12 weeks, the National Gallery is taking its masterpieces to the streets. In a bid to give the public a taste of the collection, the gallery has hung life-sized reproductions around the capital. Each painting is framed and accompanied by an information plaque, and passersby can phone a number for an audio guide of the works. Here's how Londoners  reacted to the famous works on their doorstep ...
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Can artists do a better job than politicians at portraying politics as appealing? This is a question posed by the four contenders for this year&#39;s Turner art prize at Tate Britain.
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My tour of âThe Age of Rembrandt,â the Metâs show of 17th-century Dutch paintings, includes something of everything: the familiar with the seldom seen.
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Staged photographs produce some class acts
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To engage with an artwork, especially contemporary works, can be a daunting task.
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David Hockney says a show of "stunning" JMW Turner works he curated gives an insight into the late artist's technique.
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Arts & entertainment: Hiroshige's prints of 19th-century Japan conjure up an impossibly tranquil world but don't be fooled
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There is art, and there is money. The twain seldom meet. Or, to steal a line from David Thomson, author of the eminently useful reference work "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" (Knopf, 1,008 pages, &#36;22.95), just out in paperback, there is "Chinatown," and then there are "umpteen possible future 'Mission: Impossibles."'
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The Museum of Modern Art presents an Abbas Kiarostami retrospective that covers more than three decades of the artistâs films and photographs.
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The Art Institute of Chicago has spun a wonderful show around George Seurat's famous oil painting, which includes related sketches and works by contemporaries.
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It is not easy to fit Paul Robeson in a box, but the Criterion Collection has done its best with âPaul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist.â
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An artist known for contrasting nature and culture continues to explore visual and behavioral patterns with new videos.
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Commissions from the artist Tim Hawkinson announce the intentions of the J. Paul Getty Museum to venture more boldly into the world of contemporary art.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art's show of Renaissance portraits and drawings provides a gripping art experience, visually and psychologically.