Turner and Italy, National Galleries of Scotland

Art

Turner and Italy, National Galleries of Scotland

June 26, 2009Lucas Miller

A major Turner exhibition. It focuses on the artist's "love affair" with Italy. Assembled is a large collection of sketches, watercolours, engravings, paintings, as well as some books from Turner's library. The show comes to Edinburgh after a run in Ferrara Arte and will soon pass to the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.

Literature

It’s All in the Presentation: A New Look at Schopenhauer

June 24, 2009Seth Lachterman

Schopenhauer’s saying that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will” has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others. —Albert Einstein, The World as I See It (1940)

Literature

Bloomsbury Auctions No Reserve Bibliophile Sale on Tuesday June 30, at 2:00 pm

June 22, 2009The Editor

Featuring property from Heritage Book Shop, Colonial Williamsburg
and The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exhibition
Friday, 26 June, 10am to 5pm
Monday, 29 June, 10am to 5pm
Tuesday, 30 June, 10am to 1pm

Click here for online catalogue.

Featuring:

34. …

Literature

Bloomsbury Auctions, New York – Fine Books & Manuscripts, Literature and Americana Works of Art on Paper, Tuesday 23rd June 2009 at 10:00am & 2:00pm

June 22, 2009Michael Miller

This coming week Bloomsbury New York will be offering a rich miscellany of literary books and manuscripts, Americana, works of art on paper, curiosities and erotica, all covering a vast continent of diverse subjects.

The best place to begin exploring …

Art

The Opening of the New Acropolis Museum, Athens

June 20, 2009Lucas Miller

Today, the New Acropolis Museum opens in Athens, Greece. It is positioned 300 metres from the Acropolis itself, so that visitors will be able to see it – the source of the objects before them – from the windows of the museum.

New York Arts in Italy

Found in a Rome Shop Window: Motorcycle with Faux Marbre Panel on Gas Tank

June 16, 2009Michael Miller

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New York Arts in Edinburgh

Hoors, by Gregory Burke

June 9, 2009Lucas Miller

The Traverse Theatre, in coalition with Theatre Royal Bath, stages the premier production of Gregory Burke's latest play, Hoors.

Opera

Don Giovanni at the Met x 2

June 1, 2009Roza Tulyaganova

Metropolitan Opera House
Don Giovanni
Mozart-Da Ponte
Conductor – Louis Langrée
Continuo: Dennis Giauque, Harpsichord
David Heiss, Cello
Mandolin Solo: Joyce Rasmussen Balint

Production – Marthe Keller
Set Designer – Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer – Christine Rabot-Pinson
Lighting Designer – …

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