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☆ US Constitution encasement vandalized with red powder at National Archives
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Angela Fritz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The National Archives in Washington, DC, closed early on Wednesday after two people dumped red powder on the display that protects the US Constitution, Archives officials said in a news release. “The Constitution was unaffected in its encasement. The individuals were immediately detained by security at the time of the incident, around 2:30 p.m., and officials are investigating, the Archives said. The National Archives Rotunda will remain closed for cleaning Thursday, the Archives said, but the rest of the National Archives Building will be open on its regular schedule. The Constitution is on permanent display as part of the “Charters of Freedom” exhibit showing the United States’ founding documents, along with the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.

Persons: Colleen Shogan, Vincent van Gogh’s, ”, Claude Monet, of, Alicia Jennings, Rashard Rose, Laura Paddison Organizations: CNN, Archives, United, National Locations: Washington , DC, Giverny, “, United States

☆ Monet painting to go on sale at Paris auction for first time in decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A Drouot employee poses with the painting "Les Saules, Giverny, 1886" (The Willows, Giverny), by painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) ahead of its auction at Drouot auction house in Paris, France, November 3, 2023. The landscape "Les Saules, Giverny" ("The Willows, Giverny"), dating from 1886, is reappearing on the French art market, where Monet’s paintings have become increasingly rare. "Paintings of Claude Monet of this scale, of this dimension no longer really exist among French families. Though not as famous as Monet's water lilies or the Gare Saint Lazare paintings, which can command prices reaching 100 million euros, "Les Saules, Giverny" bears the artist's trademark style. "It's an oeuvre typical of Claude Monet, notably by the brush strokes and how he makes the light come out," Nordmann said.

Persons: Claude Monet, Abdul Saboor, Ader, They're, David Nordmann, Les, Nordmann, Monet, Mary Cassatt, Clotaire Achi, Michaela Cabrera, Dominique Vidalon, Bill Berkrot Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Saint Lazare, Thomson Locations: Giverny, Paris, France, Nice, American

☆ Sharon Stone debuts new art exhibition
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Helen Stoilas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Greenwich, Connecticut CNN —Sharon Stone throws herself into her art. “I just get in this kind of trance,” Stone said of her daily painting practice during an interview with CNN. Courtesy C. Parker GalleryMany of the works in the show draw on social issues, as well as personal experience. “I created these works to understand the essence of pure creativity that comes from heartfelt truth,” Stone said in a statement accompanying the exhibition. ChiChi Ubina/Courtesy C. Parker GalleryStone now spends much of her time in the studio trying to translate how she sees the world onto canvas.

Persons: Sharon Stone, hasn’t, “, ” Stone, ” Sharon Stone's, Stone, Parker, ”, Tiffany Benincasa, ” Benincasa, Vonne, lockdowns, CNN’s Chris Wallace, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, “ Amelia, Amelia Earhart, Claude Monet, Giverny ”, Claude Monet’s Organizations: Greenwich , Connecticut CNN, CNN, Parker, of Affairs, Edinboro University Locations: Greenwich , Connecticut, Jerusalem, Israel, Greenwich, Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, Giverny, France

☆ Art Shows and Exhibitions to See This Fall
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Will Heinrich | More About Will Heinrich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A blockbuster meetup of Manet and Degas, an unprecedented retrospective for Ed Ruscha and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see an 800-year-old ink painting that has never before left Asia — the new season of museum shows is full of heart-stoppers. A new gallery devoted to plaster is set to open at the Museum of Modern Art, too, and drawing shows are everywhere, from Hanne Darboven in Texas to Stéphane Mandelbaum in New York. SeptemberONLY THE YOUNG: EXPERIMENTAL ART IN KOREA, 1960s-1970s Coming of age in a rapidly changing country, postwar Korean artists innovated without fear. Organized with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, this show is slated to travel on to the Hammer in Los Angeles. (Sept. 1-Jan. 7, 2024; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)JA’TOVIA GARY: THE GIVERNY SUITE A Black feminist angle on art history — and on Monet’s famous gardens at Giverny, France — in a newly acquired video installation.

Persons: Manet, Degas, Ed Ruscha, Hanne Darboven, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Ruth Asawa, Michelangelo, Asawa, Solomon R, GARY Organizations: Museum of Modern, Whitney Museum of American, Francisco’s Legion, Honor, National Museum of Modern, Art, Guggenheim Museum, Modern, of Fine Arts Locations: Asia, Texas, New York, KOREA, Seoul, Los Angeles, Giverny, France, Houston

☆ Ja’Tovia Gary Sets Her Sights on Love
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Yasmina Price | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gary keeps several altars in her work space and sits with them daily. She has also become an avid reader of romance novels, which she keeps stacked around her studio. “I’m definitely fixing my sights — not just in a creative or professional sense but also in a personal sense — on love, in really trying to be heart centered and spirit led,” she says. Gary also takes seriously the tensions of desire and power that exist in those novels. In a pivotal clip from “The Giverny Suite,” Nina Simone muses on the anguishes of love during her spellbinding performance at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival.

Persons: Gary, “, ”, She’s, ” Nina Simone, Malcolm X Organizations: Jazz, West 116th Locations: Harlem, West

☆ After a Year of Climate Protests, the Toll Rises for Museums and Activists
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two climate activists made a beeline for a beautiful Monet painting exhibited at the National Museum in Sweden on a recent Wednesday morning. They wanted to convey the urgency of the environmental crisis — pollution, global warming and other man-made disasters — that could turn the artist’s gorgeous gardens at Giverny into a distant memory. So the young protesters followed what has become a familiar playbook: gluing a hand to the artwork’s protective glass and smearing it with red paint. Similar scenes have unfolded at more than a dozen museums over the last year, leaving cultural workers on edge and at a loss for how to prevent climate activists from targeting delicate artworks. Just last weekend, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan was targeted for the second time, as more than 40 activists occupied galleries, silently holding signs that proclaimed “No art on a dead planet.” Meanwhile, the costs for security, conservation and insurance are growing, according to cultural institutions that have experienced attacks.

Persons: Monet, Degas, “ Organizations: National Museum, National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Locations: Sweden, Giverny, Washington, Manhattan

☆ Environment activists smear red paint on Monet painting at Stockholm museum
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Sharon Braithwaite | Henrik Pettersson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The museum’s press office confirmed the incident to CNN. “In the afternoon of June 14 around 2:30 p.m. (8:30aET) an action was carried out at the National Museum in Stockholm. “The painting, which is encased in glass, is now being inspected by museum conservators to determine whether there is any damage,” the press office continued. Environment activists on June 14 smeared red paint and glued their hands to the protective glass on a Monet painting at Stockholm's National Museum, police and the museum said. Cultural heritage has great symbolic value, and it is unacceptable to attack or destroy it, for any purpose whatsoever,” Per Hedström, the National Museum’s acting director general, said.

Persons: ”, Claude Monet, Monet, conservators, Aterstall Organizations: CNN, National, “, National Museum, Nature, Environment, AFP, Getty Images Police, Stockholm Region police Locations: Giverny, Stockholm, AFP

☆ German protesters arrested after throwing mashed potatoes at Monet painting that sold for $110 million
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Police arrested a pair of German protesters who, in a bid to bring attention to the perils of climate change, threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting that once sold for more than $110 million. That painting was also behind protective glass and unharmed in the incident, according to the museum. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup or mashed potatoes on a painting," one of the protesters says, according to an English subtitled version of the video. "This painting is not going to be worth anything if we have to fight over food," the protester adds. Born in 1840, Monet was the leading French Impressionist landscape painter, according to the National Gallery.

☆ (foto) Lungmetrajul „Parasite” a fost desemnat cel mai bun film de către Asociația Criticilor de Film din Los Angeles
▼ + stars: | 2019-12-09 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

(foto) Lungmetrajul „Parasite” a fost desemnat cel mai bun film de către Asociația Criticilor de Film din Los AngelesAsociaţia Criticilor de Film din Los Angeles şi-a anunţat, duminică, premiile de final de an, principalele distincţii fiind acordate lungmetrajului „Parasite”, regizat de Bong Joon Ho, informează luni DPA. „Parasite”, o comedie neagră despre lăcomie şi discriminare de clasă, a fost recompensat cu premiile pentru cea mai bună imagine şi cel mai bun regizor. Americanul Noah Baumbach a obţinut premiul „cel mai bun scenariu” pentru „Marriage Story”, iar „I Lost My Body” al Netflix s-a impus la categoria „cel mai bun film de animaţie”. „American Factory”, realizat de Steven Bognar şi Julia Reichert, a fost desemnat câştigător la categoria „cel mai bun film documentar”. Distincţia pentru film experimental Douglas Edwards a fost acordat producţiei semnate de Ja’Tovia Gary, „The Giverny Document”, iar Elaine May a fost recompensată cu premiul pentru întreaga carieră.

Persons: Bong, Ki, Parks, Song Kang Ho, Antonio Banderas, Pedro, îşi, Mary Kay Place, Diane, Kent Jones, AGERPRES, Jennifer Lopez, Americanul Noah Baumbach, Netflix, Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Barack, Michelle Obama, Douglas Edwards, Gary, Elaine May Organizations: Film, General Motors Locations: Los Angeles

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