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Ilya Repin, Portrait of writer Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin, 1884.
This portrait by Ilya Repin is of a very famous Russian writer, Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin. Garshin was the author of popular Russian short stories such as “A Red Flower”. The writer was psychologically troubled, which may have been due do the fact that both his father and brother committed suicide, and his illness can be seen in his writing. At a young age, Garshin himself committed suicide.
Before the portrait was completed, Garshin’s readers would often have discussions about what the young author looked like, and this portrait by Repin gave Russians an actual image of the writer. In the portrait, Garshin appears as if he has been interrupted while at work at his desk. His eyes appear sad and watery. The palette is muted, and Repin’s brushstrokes are loose and impressionistic, which may have been influenced by Repin’s love for the French impressionist Edgar Degas.
This was not the first time Garshin posed for Repin in a painting: Garshin posed as the son of Ivan the Terrible in the painting Ivan the Terrible and His son Ivan, heightening the significance of the portrait.
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Happy Valentine’s Day dear. I got us a hotel room.
[Plaza Hotel Apartment of Solomon R. and Irene Guggenheim from Guggenheim’s Findings Blog.]
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We’re excited to hear that thehammermuseum in Los Angeles now offers free admission for all visitors at all times! Welcome to the club!
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An Illustrated Japanese Battle of Farts
“He-gassen” (1846 or 1864, late Edo period), ink on paper (via Wikipedia). Scroll to see the…
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The Dirty Painting Picasso Denied Painting
I’ve seen plenty of “erotic” works by Picasso—some pretty lewd, but this one takes the cake. How old is that kid? According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website, Picasso denied making it, but they have sufficient evidence to say it’s really his. Read the story on the Met’s site.
Erotic Scene (known as “La Douleur”); Pablo Picasso (1902 or 1903); Oil on canvas
“This artwork is not on display”
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Diggin’ in the Guggenheim [blog] crates…
Installation Photograph, Museum of Non-Objective Painting
This 1948 installation view shows the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s collection at the first museum site, then located on 24 East Fifty-Fourth Street in New York…. -
How did I miss this?
Chris Burden’s exterior installations, Ghost Ship and Twin Quasi Legal Skyscrapers, as part of “Chris Burden: Extreme Measures“are still on view! Don’t forget to look up when you walk in or past our building.
Attn: artsquare!
“OMG who stole my ads?“, a series created by artist Etienne Lavie, who imagine what the streets of Paris could look like if all ads were replaced with masterpieces of classical painting.
Rad.
Casa de Cultura din Suceava. 1965 - 1969
Suceava Cultural Center. 1965 - 1969
arh. Nicolae Porumbescu
images from the magazine: Arhitectura, nr.4 / 1969
Reading Harriet Baskas’s book on Hidden Treasures in museums, I had to google pin-up artist and model Zoë Mozert. She donated a nude self-portrait to Sedona Heritage Museum which is now a family museum and can’t really justify showing it. Above is Mozert painting what became her most well known image as it was made for the poster for the Howard Hughes film The Outlaw. If you want to see Mozert’s nude selfie, you’ll have to buy the book!
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PMA Connections: Art Handling Heist
Art handling took on a new meaning when “Nude Reclining by the Sea” by Gustave Courbet was confiscated by the Nazis from a French private collection in 1941 and found its way into Herman Göring’s personal collection of looted works of art. The painting was recovered by the Allied task force the Monuments Men and returned to the hands of its rightful owner. Discover more about WWII era provenance.
Don’t miss Monuments Men in theaters, or this reclaimed
treasure on view in our galleries!
“Nude Reclining by the Sea,” 1868, by Gustave Courbet
(Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1963-181-20) 
Recueil de la diuersité des habits, qui sont de present en vsage, tant es pays d’Europe, Asie, Affrique & isles sauuages, 1564.
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Gold Rush
Before you see the George Clooney-directed movie Monuments Men, about the special division of the Allied Armies charged with saving art and monuments from destruction in WWII, read the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rich blog post about the Monument Man who became the director of the Met (1955-66), James J. Rorimer (pictured above left)!
Click below to read the Met’s blog post:
In the Footsteps of the Monuments Men: Traces from the Archives at the Metropolitan Museum
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Send this to your rich friend with a link to your favorite museum’s membership page.
Whoa. The FBI’s website has a whole slew of articles on famous cases. These pics are of heiress Patty Hearst robbing a bank woth her kidnappers. (I used to love touring the FBI building as a kid. The confiscated weapons were fascinating!)
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Props to them for mentioning Zack Herrera by name!
“On a related note, our wonderful Librarian, Heather Brodhead, just sent us this clip from the ‘Santa Barbara News-Press’ circa 1984 as our ‘Lansdowne Hermes’ arrives to the Museum” (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
Nice pairing! Alert blackcontemporaryart…
Jeff WALL, Invisible Man, 1999; Gordon PARKS, Invisible Man, 1952
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Origins of London’s extraordinary Victoria and Albert Museum, and how it got its name, in a richly illustrated blog post by archivist Nicholas Smith.
Monday, January 20, 2014Few museums in the world can have traded under as many names as the V&A in the first 50 years of their existence!
The iconic building that we recognise today as the V&A opened in 1909; however, the museum can trace its physical footprint at South Kensington to 1857, and its intellectual roots to 1837….
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Marilyn Minter - Gold Tip
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Something about this memento mori in a polychrome sculpture up at the Hispanic Society of America… I just can’t stop looking at this photo. I probably took it in 2006 or earlier.
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The 5th floor of newmuseum is apparently transformed into this Czech SciFi spaceship! Watch a clip of the 1963 film Ikarie XB-1 on YouTube. I gotta go check (pun resisted) this out:
Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module (1/22/14—4/13/14 at New Museum)
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Probably the best I’ve seen from museumgifs so far. Nice one!
(It’s the Egyptian wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.)
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Female Votive Head to Dionysus
Estern Mediterranean, 1st–2nd century CE
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Untitled by Tatiana Berg
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One of the best reasons to visit Queens Museum!
13:21// I walked around and over this model last spring, having worn my shades on the bus, feeling so blank and empty, life having lost its primary meaning when Samuel Dwinell disappeared from my life, leaving behind his relics, leaving without there even being an argument.
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Guston Kid’s Room, 2013
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Get psyched for Charles Marville photos of 19th-century Paris, opening January 29 at the Met.
Charles Marville’s Paris coming to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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“Giants Arriving” (Acrylic on Wood, 24x30")
An invasion of somber, benevolent giants? Sure. Why not? I love this painting series by my buddy Chris Baily!
See more: http://art.chrisbaily.com/
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Probably the best (and maybe only) art museum pickup line I’ve seen.
