At the Museum Near Where You Live

[pjme]

And in Brussels

Belgian symbolism

http://www.fine-arts-museum.be/site/FR/frames/F_expo.html

[pjme]

Or at the 1958 Atomium:



The furniture we ..love to hate.

[Wanderer]

Not near where I live, but a very important exhibition, nonetheless:

Heracles to Alexander The Great: Treasures From The Royal Capital of Macedon, A Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy at Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford.

[Lethevich]

My local one closed due to gov't cuts, joy

[knight66]

Not near where I live, but a very important exhibition, nonetheless:

Heracles to Alexander The Great: Treasures From The Royal Capital of Macedon, A Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy at Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford.

Oh, I can get to that. I must make a point of popping over. The museum has had a major revamp and provides  amuch better and varied setting for what it displays.

Mike

[Karl Henning]

http://www.whalingmuseum.org/

[Karl Henning]

The MFA in Boston has two especially tasty special exhibits open now, El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III;  and British prints from essentially between the great wars, Rhythms of Modern Life.

Hard to believe I started this thread five years ago . . . .

[pjme]

The garden of the Van Buuren Museum has been renovated.
For those who like art from the interbellum, the Van Buuren villa is a must!

see: http://museumvanbuuren.be/

[pjme]

And in Antwerp's pride: MAS = Museum aan de stroom = Museum on the river

Discover what Napoleon did for my city:


Bonaparte at the Scheldt


MAS | Museum Aan de Stroom > On Display > Bonaparte at the Scheldt


Bonaparte at the Scheldt
Exhibition 23.03.13 - 30.06.13
Antwerp swept along in a current of French aspirations

Vive Napoléon?! From 1794 to 1814 Antwerp found itself under French rule. This brief period had a considerable impact on the city and on the lives of its inhabitants...

... Particularly once Napoleon began to involve himself in Antwerp's affairs from 1803 onwards.

Affectionately referred to by his soldiers as 'le petit caporal' (the Little Corporal), Napoleon was a man of great aspirations. He gave a crucial role to Antwerp within his plans of European conquest. The city was to become his empire's most important military port, and everything would change as a result. Following two lean centuries, the port regained its influence in world trade. It flourished and expanded.

The two large docks next to the MAS, the Bonaparte Dock and Willem Dock, are significant remnants of the period under Napoleon. They represent the beginnings of the today's port. The bicentenary of the Willem Dock's inauguration (in 1813) provides the celebratory occasion for reviewing two effervescent decades in the history of Antwerp. The city's economy developed rapidly; but this came at a heavy price with Antwerp in a constant state of war.

What did the French achieve? What would their further plans have entailed? And how did those 20 years of French rule alter the dynamics and appearance of this port city? 'Bonaparte at the Scheldt' pieces this extraordinary legacy together using paintings, prints, maps, model ships and archive records.

Showing at the MAS from 23 March to 30 June 2013.

http://www.mas.be/MAS-EN/MAS_EN.html

[Karl Henning]

The artwork is gone (still) but not forgotten (yet).

"Three persons of interest" in the case are Italian mobsters? I am shocked, shocked, shocked . . . .

[jochanaan]

http://www.denverartmuseum.org/

[Karl Henning]

http://www.denverartmuseum.org/

Groovy!  I shall enjoy poking through the collection, virtually . . . .

[kishnevi]

Two museums of possible interest.  First, the National Museum of the US Marine Corps at Quantico, VA.
It's not every museum shop which sells MREs as souvenirs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34574498@N06/sets/72157644796543801/
The flag is the second flag which was flown over Iwo Jima. No flash photography is permitted of that relic.

And the Stafford White Oaks Civil War museum, begun and managed by one man, a carpenter/fisherman in daily life and avid relic hunter.  He built the recreated winter huts and the cannon, and accumulated most of the items on display, although there is a considerable amount donated by other private individuals.  All of it is stuff found in and around Stafford VA, north of Fredericksburg, and site of a Union Army winter encampment (which is why there is little Confederate stuff here).  Not everything is Civil War related: one room holds Native American relics and items from the days when the museum building served as a one room schoolhouse. One picture shows a small Baptist church across the street which dates from preCivil War days.   Possibly the best little museum you've never heard of.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34574498@N06/sets/72157644851478233/

[pjme]

Next saturday, in Brussels:

re-opening of the Jef Lambeaux - Victor Horta pavillion " Les Passions humaines", one of the more fantastic 19th century, early  Art Nouveau follies.

Jef (Joseph Marie Thomas) Lambeaux, (14 january 1852, Antwerp - 5 june 1908, Brusels) was a famous sculptor who got a lot of important commissions. "Les passions humaines" is lambeaux magnum opus (litterally so : it measures ca 12 X 8m and is made of 17 blocs of Carrara marble). King Leopold II ( always greatly interested and personally activ in human passions...) commisoned the sculpture and the pavillion.
Lambeaux' gigantic vortex of naked bodies, Death and the Crucified Christ met with disbelief and shock.
The young Victor Horta was asked to design a little temple that would form a discreet shelter ...

After the first WW Les passions humaines and Horta's building were slowly forgotten and suffered almost complete oblivion. The building was in bad shape.  If one wanted to see Les passions humaines, one had to ask fore the key at the Museum for Art and History.
Finally, in 2008 plans were made for saving this "pièce unique", in 2013 the actual restauration was started.



 



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Human_Passions


Which score matches Lambeaux'magnum opus?

P.

[pjme]

During the weekend I was in the Netherlands/Leerdam.
At the National Glasmuseum an exhibit is shown on Art Deco glass



Central figure of this show is Lucienne Bloch, daughter of composer Ernest Bloch.
Wiki:
Lucienne Bloch (January 5, 1909 – March 13, 1999) was a Switzerland-born American artist. She was best known for her murals and for her association with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, for whom she produced the only existing photographs of Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads, painted in 1933 and destroyed in January 1934 at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
In 1929, she pioneered the design of glass sculpture for the Royal Leerdam Crystal Glass Factory in the Netherlands. When Frank Lloyd Wright saw her glass works and spoke with her in New York, he invited her to teach at his architectural school, Taliesin East, where she worked with artist and muralist Santiago Martínez Delgado and other Taliesin fellows.

It is a small but interesting show that highlights her precocious talent.



I also went to two concerts of the Festival Oude Muziek , some elegant flute/harpsichord music (Telemann + Händel) in a free Fringe concert and Ensemble Lucidarium (http://www.lucidarium.com/) at the Geertekerk:  Codex Marciana, Dufay, Brollo, Domenico di Piacenza... an interesting combination of anonymous folk like dances and complex songs by Dufay.

[Karl Henning]

During the weekend I was in the Netherlands/Leerdam.
At the National Glasmuseum an exhibit is shown on Art Deco glass



Central figure of this show is Lucienne Bloch, daughter of composer Ernest Bloch.
Wiki:
Lucienne Bloch (January 5, 1909 – March 13, 1999) was a Switzerland-born American artist. She was best known for her murals and for her association with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, for whom she produced the only existing photographs of Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads, painted in 1933 and destroyed in January 1934 at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
In 1929, she pioneered the design of glass sculpture for the Royal Leerdam Crystal Glass Factory in the Netherlands. When Frank Lloyd Wright saw her glass works and spoke with her in New York, he invited her to teach at his architectural school, Taliesin East, where she worked with artist and muralist Santiago Martínez Delgado and other Taliesin fellows.

It is a small but interesting show that highlights her precocious talent.

Nice!

[pjme]

https://www.youtube.com/v/1IZxr6eGJqk

https://www.youtube.com/v/TaoXJUPTS0w

French Dutch/Flemish subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/v/59xZOy-1H5E

[Wanderer]

https://www.youtube.com/v/1IZxr6eGJqk

https://www.youtube.com/v/TaoXJUPTS0w

French Dutch/Flemish subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/v/59xZOy-1H5E

Nice! Thanks for posting these.

[pjme]

A virtuel tour!

In Antwerp:

https://www.museumvleeshuis.be/en/page/virtual-tour-vleeshuis-behind-scenes

In Luik / Liège:

https://nl.laboverie.com/news/take-a-virtual-tour-of-la-boverie

[pjme]

Ostend and James Ensor.

https://www.youtube.com/v/64XgmogvtPM