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J.M.W. Turner

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J.M.W. Turner, the Modern

by Michael Glover December 12, 2020December 11, 2020

A show at Tate Britain underscores Turner as the great recorder of elemental disorder and industrial pollution on the grand scale.

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John Akomfrah Discusses Channeling J.M.W. Turner and Disasters at Sea

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson June 8, 2018June 8, 2018

“The Deluge,” a monumental Turner painting showing a Biblical flood, is currently paired with Akomfrah’s “Vertigo Sea” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Sondra Perry’s First Solo European Show Engulfs Visitors in Turner’s “The Slave Ship”

Avatar photo by Aida Amoako April 3, 2018January 11, 2021

Typhoon Coming On challenges visitors to consider the UK’s complicity in the dehumanisation of black people.

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An Artist’s Light-Filled Tribute to J.M.W. Turner

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk November 18, 2017November 20, 2017

In Ellen Harvey’s Nostalgia, the spiritual and the secular converge into a beatific, nature-based sublime.

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J.M.W. Turner’s Unloved Late Paintings; or, The Whales

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 8, 2016July 14, 2016

Some days ago — never mind the count — having not much purpose in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and nothing in its galleries otherwise to interest me, I thought I would wander a little and found myself in the most watery part of the institution.

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J.M.W. Turner to Light Up the British £20 Note

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 26, 2016April 26, 2016

J.M.W. Turner, the great English landscape painter who obsessed over light, will be featured on the new £20 banknote in the UK.

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J.M.W. Turner, the Sublime, and Me

by Larissa Archer May 18, 2015May 21, 2015

LOS ANGELES — “You don’t experience the sublime looking through double glazing, or at a distant electric storm, or watching a sea rage on TV.”

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Saving the Only Building Painter J.M.W. Turner Ever Completed

by Laura C. Mallonee January 27, 2015January 30, 2015

“Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed,” J.M.W. Turner once said.

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Who Are the (Potential) Art Winners Among the 2015 Oscar Nominees?

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 15, 2015January 19, 2015

The nominees for the 2015 Academy Awards are out today, and from Mr. Turner to Finding Vivian Maier, there’s a fair chance of some visual art films taking home gold-plated statuettes and adding Oscar medallions to their DVD cases.

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Olafur Eliasson on Turning Light into Color

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino January 14, 2015January 17, 2015

For the past six years, the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been working with a color chemist to produce paint pigments that correspond to each nanometer of the visible light spectrum.

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Scientists Use Artistic Sunsets as Time Capsules of Climate Change

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 25, 2014March 27, 2014

In a study published today, Greek and German researchers have compiled the results of looking at sunsets in 310 works from the Tate and National Gallery in London. The focus is on sunsets because they can potentially show what the climate was like in the past and help improve climate change models for the future.

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New Orleans Museum Gloats Over Super Bowl Bet with Indianapolis

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian March 24, 2010March 24, 2010

“This painting is on loan to the New Orleans Museum of Art for three months from the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which has the largest collection of Turner’s work outside Great Britain. The loan is a result of a Super Bowl wager between the directors of the two art museums …

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