German Historical Museum exhibition presents the October Revolution as an event of world-historical significance

Click Here to Read:  German Historical Museum exhibition presents the October Revolution as an event of world-historical significance
By Verena Nees on the World Socialist Web Site on December 6, 2017.

Click Here to Read:  Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test at the Art Institute of Chicago—an introductory comment
Russian Revolutionary art exhibition opened October 29 By Jeff Lusanne and David Walsh On the World Socialist Web Site on October 31, 2017.

Click Here to Read: How the Bolshevik Revolution saved avant-garde art By Paul Mitchell on the World Socialist Web Site on November 30, 2017.

Day of the October Revolution , 1938 Image source: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, New York.Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

 

A Power Pair: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Click Here to Read:  A Power Pair: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Portrait of a complex marriage: Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera painted each other for 25 years: those works give us an insight into their relationship, argues Kelly Grovier on the BBC Culture website on December 4, 2017.

Carl Van Vechten photograph collection (Library of Congress).  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test at the Art Institute of Chicago

Click Here to Read:  Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test at the Art Institute of Chicago—an introductory comment
Russian Revolutionary art exhibition opened October 29 By Jeff Lusanne and David Walsh On the World Socialist Web Site on October 31, 2017.

Click Here to Read: How the Bolshevik Revolution saved avant-garde art By Paul Mitchell on the World Socialist Web Site on November 30, 2017.

An Art Nouveau Interpretation of the Minoan World

Click Here to Read:   An Art Nouveau Interpretation of the Minoan World: Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World revisits the archaeology of Knossos through a contemporary video installation by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on November 26, 2017.

Photo prise par Harrieta171.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

: The Iconoclastic Kinship of Kiefer and Rodin

Click Here to Read:  The Iconoclastic Kinship of Kiefer and Rodin: In the new exhibition Kiefer Rodin, Anselm Kiefer draws a straight line between himself and the grand old man of French sculpture by Thomas Micchelli on the HyperAllergic website on November 24,2017.
Monumenta @ Le Grand Palai: Monumenta 2007 – Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris. France Robin Berjon from Paris, France. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Le Penseur at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor by Yair Haklai. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Four Centuries of Mapping the Subterranean World

Click Here to Read:   Four Centuries of Mapping the Subterranean World: Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on November 20, 2017.

Tabula Rogeriana, 1154: Date 1300 (French) or 1486 (Bodleian) copy of a 1154 original Source Konrad Miller’s collage of the Bodleian MS. Pococke 375 or possibly another based on the French National Library’s MS. Arabe 2221 Author: Al-Idrisi. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

6 Questions for an Art Historian About Leonardo’s “Salvator Mundi”

Click Here to Read: 6 Questions for an Art Historian About Leonardo’s “Salvator Mundi”: David Nolta doesn’t mince words in his assessment of “Salvator Mundi.” “The sale does not necessarily have any more to do with scholarship than the picture has to do with Leonardo,” he explains Hrag Vartanian on November 21, 2017.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons