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...Lisetta Carmi Estorick Collection, London (to december 17); Villa Bardini, Florence And yet there remain magnificent women artists to seize from obscurity....
...London’s Frieze fairs opened in characteristic style this week, with VIP visitors ranging from actress Florence Pugh to the UK’s former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne (now chair of the British...
...“I want so to see the Arno,” insists Lucy Honeychurch as she is confronted with the dismal vista at her Florence guesthouse in EM Forster’s A Room with a View....
...Most recently, he collaborated with Italian artist Massimo Bartolini to create an installation in Prato, outside Florence....
...With ceramics firmly established as a serious art discipline, and textiles more generally championed by institutions such as Tate and the Royal Academy over the past few years, it seems embroidery, too,...
...“I’m also really excited that we have a painting by Sahara Longe (£40,000-£60,000),” says Lord of the London-based artist who was classically trained in portrait painting in Florence and currently has a...
...As a post-industrial space (car production stopped here in the 1980s), the Pinacoteca Agnelli’s heft and style dwarf Tate Modern, while the roof has the scope of New York’s High Line....
...“Brain Forest Quipu” (to April 16) in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall....
...It is an incredibly rich landscape,” says Kasia Redzisz, artistic director of Kanal, formerly of Tate Liverpool. “Brussels is edgy, critical, humorous, surreal....
...From 2003 to 2010, he was a director at London’s Tate Modern, staging celebrated shows of Kandinsky and Dalí and Theo van Doesburg....
...Further into the spring, choice pickings from various genres include Tate Britain’s first wide-ranging showing of Isaac Julien’s film and installation work in April; the British Museum’s flagship show for...
..., Florence Reece’s song written for striking Kentucky miners in 1931, was adopted by their British counterparts as they protested against pit closures proposed by Margaret Thatcher in 1984....
...Yet a weekend in Florence in 2016, just after graduating from art school in Glasgow, sparked something: she visited Masaccio’s famous Brancacci Chapel, painted in the 1420s....
...In 2003, he conjured light and fog in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall for the immersive exhibition The Weather Project. In 2008, he built four towering waterfalls in Manhattan’s East River....
...Visitors ranged from Tate director Maria Balshaw, seen at David Zwirner’s booth, to the Swiss tennis supremo Roger Federer, spotted on the Gagosian stand....
...On a more contemporary note, May sees the long-delayed opening of a full retrospective of Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain — not be missed — and at Tate St Ives, which also hosts a homecoming show by Barbara...
...The Florence-headquartered gallery continues to run in Italy, Switzerland and France — and business in Paris is particularly strong, confirms director Ursula Casamonti....
...Across from Tate Modern, half of Blackfriars Bridge has collapsed following a bombing, its wreckage jutting from the water in a sculptural plume of twisted metal....
...There is a range of tour types — performance artist Florence Peake offers a straightforward teleconference, while the duo Cooking Sections, who had been due to install a work in the now-closed Tate Britain...
...Some large-scale national museums, too, are joining the party: Vienna’s Albertina is open, the Uffizi in Florence, many of Rome’s great institutions too....
...At last week’s award ceremony, several prominent women stormed out at the announcement — including the evening’s host, comedian Florence Foresti, who had earlier tried to get things off to a skippy start...
...On Thursday evening in Florence, Ruby launched his fashion label with a fashion show....
...Artists selected for the opening week include Nástio Mosquito, Paul Maheke and Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, along with Florence Peake and Eve Stainton....
...Bruguera, meanwhile, dedicated two days of her Tate show to displaying his “Crossfire” series....
...In Italy events range from shows centred on the famous holdings in Turin and Milan (home of “The Last Supper”) to fascinating smaller exhibitions, such as the Galileo Museum in Florence’s show of Leonardo...
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