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Click, click (#27): Joie et Clarté des Corps Glorieux
I had the pleasure of attending the performance Fürchte dich nicht by Orpheus Chor München. I know nothing about choir music, but I much enjoyed it. My favourite part of the concert was not the choir...
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Click, click (#28): Gerhard Richter Panorama, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
After hunting for Richter works in Munich and Frankfurt for some time, I finally found my way to a major exhibition in Berlin. The Gerhard Richter Panorama in Neue Nationalgalerie (slideshow here) has...
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Click, click (#29): DOX, Prague
Igor, Seb, and I had ourselves a little excursion to the DOX (Centre for contemporary art) in Prague last week. My pictures didn’t come out great, but here is one of a statue by Czech artist Karel...
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Click, click (30): Contemporary art @ Städel Museum, Frankfurt
I’ve been back to the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, this time for the Gegenwarskunst (contemporary collection). The entry, which subsequently leads down to the brand new basement gallery, announces...
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Click, click (#32): Huys Schimmelpenninck, Groningen
During my visit to Groningen in the summer, I was staying at Huys Schimmelpenninck, a wonderful hotel in the center of Groningen. The name rang a distant bell, and no wonder since Rutger Jan...
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Click, click (#33): The Barberini Faun, Glyptothek, Munich
The Glyptothek in Munich was opened in 1830. The musuem contains a number of masterpieces collected by Ludwig I. Chief among them is the Medusa Rondanini and the Barberini Faun (seen above). In fact,...
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Click, click (#34): Jenny Saville, Modern Art Oxford
Jesse and I went to Jenny Saville’s solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. I didn’t know her work, but I was instantly taken in by it. Huge canvasses, expressionism, Bacon references, and flesh—lots of...
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Click, click (#35): Canova’s Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, Apsley House,...
I had to do some rather inelegant sneaking around to take illicit photos of the Canova statue in Number One, London, or Apsley House. Perhaps precisely because of my efforts to dodge security, my...
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Click, click (#36): The Sphinx
The Egyptian Campaign is one of the most mythologized periods in Napoleon’s career: The Alexandrian ambitions, the visit to the plague-ridden soldiers in Jaffa, the siege of Acre, Monge and the...
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Click, click (#37): The Apotheosis of Napoleon
The Apotheosis of Napoleon (1830) by Bertel Thorvaldsen. The marble piece sits in the final room of the Ben Weider Collection in Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Thorvaldsen was also responsible...
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