“Vaudou” gathers sculptures and fetishes from Africa, tangible objects reflecting the belief in a world of unseen but present spirits. The exhibition, at the Fondation Cartier through Sept. 25, has been a hit with museumgoers. Jorg von Uthmann of Bloomberg reports. See Art
No, no, no: The troubled Grammy-winning singer was found at her north London home on Saturday afternoon, dead of a suspected drug overdose. She was 27. Adrian Thrills, Daily Mail: “... without question the outstanding vocalist of her generation. Without Amy, there would have been no Adele, no Duffy and no Lady Gaga.”
The artist whose spare but riveting portraits of ordinary people made him, according to art critic Robert Hughes, “the greatest living realist painter,” was 88, and succumbed late Wednesday to a brief illness. Freud “put the pictorial language of traditional European painting in the service of an anti-romantic, confrontational style of portraiture that stripped bare the sitter’s social facade,” notes William Grimes of The New York Times. See Art
He’s got no kick against smooth jazz, but Chris Barton of the Los Angeles Times finds the summer schedule for jazz performances at the legendary Hollywood Bowl short on musicians who push the envelope. For Barton, the Bowl schedule cries for concerts that present the public with an art form challenging listeners at the razor’s edge of discovery. See Music
Three ambitious and visionary filmmakers have just wrapped up Warner Bros’ mammoth Harry Potter film series — at $6.4 billion and counting, the most lucrative franchise in movie history. Tim Masters of BBC News asks: What do you, and the studio, do for an encore? See Movies
Photo: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter: Warner Bros. via BBC News
Reuniting, it feels so good: “Weary Herakles’’ has been a symbol of the art works stolen from Turkey and sold to U.S. museums. The top half of “Herakles’’ has been at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1982. Now, after years of talks and debate, the MFA has agreed to send it back, implicitly admitting that it never should have let Herakles the Upper join the collection in the first place. See the video from The Boston Globe:
An exhibition of Canadian artists at a private gallery near the Bastille has garnered almost unanimous praise from critics entranced by the artists’ weave of elements of nature, climate and mysticism. Peter O’Neil of The National Post reports. Look at Art
The world of Bollywood mourns the death Wednesday of the director acclaimed as “one of the pioneers, along with Kumar Shahni, of a parallel cinema movement in India.” The Calcutta Telegraph reports. In Movies
In the world according to the movies, the Arab is locked in an amber of cinematic assumptions: sneaky, conniving, bloodthirsty, rapacious, a joyful enslaver bent on evil. On Tuesdays and Thursdays in July, the Turner Classic Movies channel will focus on the Arab image in film, showcasing several motion pictures and the ways in which old tropes on Arab culture and identity arise, and where they dovetail with, or diverge from, reality. TCM host Robert Osborne will co-host the segments with Dr. Jack G. Shaheen, a noted media critic and author; check this link for the full schedule.
The U.S. Department of the Interior has declared an 18th-century Maine farmhouse, the setting for Andrew Wyeth’s iconic “Christina’s World,” is a National Historic Landmark. Brian MacQuarrie of The Boston Globe reports. See Art
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“Vaudou” gathers sculptures and fetishes from Africa, tangible objects reflecting the belief in a world of unseen but present spirits. The exhibition, at the Fondation Cartier through Sept. 25, has been a hit with museumgoers. Jorg von Uthmann of Bloomberg reports. See Art
