Quite a bit of wildness hides beneath the artist’s cloak of scholarship and respectability.
Nicolas Poussin
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A Well-Intentioned Poussin Show Almost Gets it Right
Poussin and the Dance is a valiant attempt to break into Poussin’s staunchly academic oeuvre and provide a relatable point of entry, highlighting the exciting elements of revelry and movement despite impenetrable and unemotional rendering.
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When Disaster Can’t Be Pictured
To represent the world is to understand it, and to understand it might, hopefully, help cope with a plague.
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Flooding Damages Three Paintings and Multiple Rooms at the Louvre
France’s National Library and Ministry of Culture also suffered water damage during a deluge on the night of July 9.
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Louvre’s Men in Yellow
Paris — I’m traveling today, so there may be less posts than usual but I couldn’t resist sharing one of the games I love to play in museums. I choose a theme, topic, color or some other attribute and walk through finding it in the collection.
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A Visual Escape to Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum
I resented Sarasota, Florida when I lived there because no one was young and no art seemed new … Now, I resent New York because nothing seems old … The Ringling Museum in Sarasota has since become my favorite place to escape when I visit Florida …