” Sesame Street ” residents are used to neighbors of all kinds, from enormous Big Bird to grouchy Oscar. But the iconic PBS show is about to add another Muppet, Julia, whose character has autism.
Category: Painting
How were 500 Bristol students struck down by mystery Rag Week illness?
Fifty years ago this weekend, what should have been a fun day out for thousands of people in Bristol was spoiled by a bizarre illness. We take a look back… The early morning of Saturday, March 4, 1967 saw a frenzy of last-minute nailing, painting and rigging up on the Downs as 50 Bristol University departments, clubs, colleges and halls of residence prepared their Rag Day floats.
How were 500 Bristol students struck down by mystery Rag Week illness?
Fifty years ago this weekend, what should have been a fun day out for thousands of people in Bristol was spoiled by a bizarre illness. We take a look back… The early morning of Saturday, March 4, 1967 saw a frenzy of last-minute nailing, painting and rigging up on the Downs as 50 Bristol University departments, clubs, colleges and halls of residence prepared their Rag Day floats.
Versailles fan favourites revealed
For the past couple of months, I have been indulging my inner ‘Francophile’. Over the course of a number of visits to the National Gallery of Australia’s summer exhibition, “Versailles: Treasures from the Palace” , I have fallen in love with more than just one of the 130 treasures entrusted to the care of the Gallery.
Lifestyle | Worcester Art Museum to Host Four Major Exhibitions Starting in May
The Worcester Art Museum is getting set to present four major exhibitions ranging from 19th century painting to photography at the turn of the 20th century, to contemporary artists tackling both personal and wider social themes. “Worcester has always been an unexpectedly international city, a place historically – and currently – welcoming different peoples and cultures, and the Museum’s reflects this diversity in its collections and programs.
Exhibition focuses on the elegant patterns of lines in Sigmar Polke’s work
He was a magician when it came to forms and media and, at the same time, a cynic when it came to reality: in his multi-facetted images, moments of painting and elements of drawing, materials and patterns, photos and drawings are layered, collaged and contrasted while his pictorial worlds reflect critically on our social and political worlds – his irony was biting and nasty. Frequently, fine lines are laid over the surface of the picture, adding a dimension to those of area and space.
First exhibition in Munich by the artist Nico Mares on view at ART & SPACE Gallery
ART & SPACE Gallery announces the opening of the first exhibition in Munich by the artist Nico Mares, based in Dusseldorf. There are new large-scale paintings on view.
Vibrant Tate show traces of David Hockney’s artistic journey
It’s not often an artist finds himself occupying 12 rooms of London’s leading museum of British art and the front page of populist tabloid The Sun. But David Hockney is unique.
David Hockney exhibition ‘will change way people view the artist’
The biggest ever retrospective of the work of David Hockney will change the way people see the output of one of Britain’s greatest living artists, according to its curator. The exhibition at the Tate Britain will feature more than 250 pieces of artwork to celebrate his achievement in painting, drawing, photography and video.