Completed in 1883, the 26 plates Gustave Doré illustrated for Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” were actually not published until after his death on January 23 of that year.
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Art Museum Promo Video That Gets It (Mostly) Right
European museums have been slower than North American institutions to adopt a digital forward way of doing things, but the Musée d’Orsay’s recent video promotion for their latest show, Masculine / Masculine, is on the cutting edge of the digital wave.
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Making a Heaven in Hell: The Angel of the Odd’s Dark Romanticism
PARIS — With the bloody revolutions of the late 1700s, the mood in Europe was apprehensive and brooding about the future. Perhaps then it’s no surprise that the art from that time has a certain gloominess to it as well. Yet what is unexpected is the strange beauty certain artists began to give their visions of horror, whether it was embracing the devil in the same way Milton did in Paradise Lost as an alluring prince of darkness, or portraying the apocalypse with a light that was inverted to our world, but curiously enticing. It’s this deviant use of beauty that is celebrated in L’Ange du Bizarre (The Angel of the Odd), an exhibition draped over the galleries of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris that beckons with its Dark Romanticism.
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Babes at the Museum, the Marketing Campaign?
Thanks to Hyperallergic commenter Nick Fortunato, who left us a tip on our recent “Babes in Museum Land” post, we were directed to this story today of three French models stripping down in Paris’ Musée d’Orsay for an Etam lingerie campaign.