The National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has given Cuba its most complete showcase of cultural exh
18 July 2001
1. Reflection in window of Fidel Castro with Moraima Clavijo, director of new Fine Arts Museum
2. Wide of inauguration ceremony
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, President of Cuba: Not only are they (the art works) not for sale, they will be defended with the blood of our people. The people will lay down their lives before these works of art are sold.''
14 September 2001
4. Various of entrance hall of museum
5. Various of pottery exhibits
6. Two girls looking at an ancient statue
7. Students studying a sculpture
8. Museum sign indicating position of different European exhibits
9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luz Merino Acosta, Sub Director of the Museum of Fine Arts: The exhibition of European schools of art is a result of the relationships that our specialists and curators established when this museum, while semi-closed, attempted to survive, which it managed to do.
10. Canaletto painting showing Chelsea hospital, River Thames, London
11. Closer pan along picture
12. Portrait by Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla Bastida
13. Various of people looking at paintings by Sorolla
14. Paintings
15. People looking at paintings
16. Various of stain glass window exhibits
17. Various of art
CUBA'S TREASURE TROVE OF ART OPENS AGAIN
The re-opening of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has given Cuba its most complete showcase of cultural exhibits.
The restoration of the three-building complex, which houses nearly 50 thousand works dating from ancient Egypt through to contemporary Cuba, cost an estimated 14.5 (m) million U-S dollars.
An international art collection, made up of American, European and Latin American art, hangs in the Asturian Centre.
Much of it came from private collections left behind by wealthy families who fled Cuba soon after the 1959 revolution.
Works that once belonged to members of former dictator Fulgencio Batista's government are also on show.
Moraima Clavijo, the museum's director, said contact remained with some of the surviving families.
The estimated total value of the collection has been put at 600 (m) million U-S dollars, and Cubans will pay just five US cents to see it.
This is the first time since the museum closed in 1996 for renovation that Cubans have had access to all the works on display.
The museum is also putting to use expertise it has acquired in art restoration and history as a result of showing works of art abroad while the museum itself was closed for renovation.
Interest from abroad in the works of art here has been intense.
The Cuban exile community has claimed that works of art were sold during Cuba's economic crisis in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The British have long sought to acquire half a painting by Antonio Canaletto, depicting Chelsea Hospital and the River Thames, and unite it with the other half currently in London.
In the past, reports say Britain has offered several million US dollars for the work, but Castro has declared this art is not for sale.
The museum has many surprises in its little known collection. It claims to be one of very few museums in Latin America with a permanent exhibition of 18th and 19th century art from the United States - Cuba's traditional adversary.
And as Cuba continues to develop tourism - its largest foreign currency industry - in order to survive, the museum represents a significant new attraction.
Visitors to Havana now have access to a unique collection of international renown.
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In Our Time: The Museum of Modern Art
What do the superstars of modern art have in common with the Vincent Black Shadow motorcyle? They share the stage at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, also known as MoMA. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV.
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Sustainability at the Leach Pottery Studio and Museum
David Twomlow studied for an Archaeology degree at Truro and Penwith College. During his degree he undertook an additional course focusing on sustainability, innovation and employability, winning an award for sustainability. He is now putting his skills into practice at the Leach Pottery Studio and Museum.
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Parallel Nippon Contemporary Japanese Arqchitecture 1996-2006
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Exhibition Organizers: The Japan Foundation (JF) / Architectural Institute Of Japan (AIJ)
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Sound: Yoshi Usui
Special Thanks To: Araki Takahisa: Aomori Museum Of Art, Archipro Architects: MIrasaka Ceramics Studio, Hokkaido Eizo Kiroku Co. Ltd.: Morenuma Park, Shuhei Endo Architect Institute: Rooftecture C
Transpacific Borderlands Artist Profile: Patssy Higuchi
Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo examines the experiences of artists of Japanese ancestry born, raised, or living in either Latin America or predominantly Latin American neighborhoods of Southern California. In this series of short videos, artists featured in the exhibition discuss their work, their backgrounds, and their identities as Nikkei in Latin America and Southern California.
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PATSSY HIGUCHI
Born 1972 in Lima, Peru; lives and works in Lima.
Patssy Higuchi grew up in a family of artists, learning how to paint from her father and how to throw pottery from her mother. She studied drawing and painting for six years at the National School of Fine Arts of Peru—the same school where her parents met. In 1993, she met her future husband, the Cuban artist A. Alexix García; that same year, the two of them founded Cauri Taller de Gráfica Experimental, a print workshop for artists. The couple briefly lived in Havana, Cuba, where Higuchi was a guest artist at the Experimental Graphic Workshop, before returning to Peru.
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Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo is on view at the Japanese American National Museum from September 17, 2017 – February 25, 2018. The exhibition is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a Getty-led initiative exploring Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, and is made possible through grants from the Getty Foundation. The presenting sponsor of PST: LA/LA is Bank of America.
For more information about the exhibition, visit janm.org/transpacific-borderlands.
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China: West Meets East at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is home to the finest collection of Chinese masterpieces of any museum outside of China. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV.
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The Craft Museum: Ideals and Practice (3 of 4)
“Propelling the Encyclopedic Museum Forward: Strategies for the Future of Collecting Craft” by Cindi Strauss and Anna Walker, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Performance in Craft” moderated by Jeannine Falino, Museum of Arts and Design with panelists: Emily Zilber, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Gabriel Craig, artist; Jessica Jane Julius, artist; Emma Salamon, artist
This symposium examines the role of the craft museum in modern culture. Coinciding with the renovation of the Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian’s national craft museum, this program seeks a lively dialogue on craft’s institutional mission, and the execution of programming devoted to the collection, conservation, presentation, and study of craft. The issue of how to interpret the field of craft in a museum setting is increasingly urgent as the boundaries of its teaching, practice, reception, and the discipline’s very definition shift dramatically in the first quarter of the 21st century.
Mary-Anne Martin: How the Art Market Affects Collecting Decisions by Individuals and Institutions
May 17, 2014
Mary-Anne Martin, art dealer, presents How the Art Market Affects Collecting Decisions by Individuals and Institutions during a two-day symposium titled 'The Americas Revealed, Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States.' This event was organized by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection.
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00:44 A-103 NOHRA HAIME GALLERY - New York, NY
02:41 A-105 BLACK & WHITE GALLERY - Brooklyn, NY
04:07 A-200 CAUSEY CONTEMPORARY - New York, NY
04:46 A-201 WILLIAM BACZEK FINE ARTS - Northampton, MA
05:38 A-302 CYNTHIA CORBETT GALLERY - London, UK
06:29 A-307 PENTIMENTI GALLERY - Philadelphia, PA
08:02 PROJECTS - Erin D. Garcia
08:50 A-314 SVA GALLERIES - NY - Richard Vivenzio
09:09 A-120 EMERSON DORCSCH - Miami, FL
10:04 A-117 HONEY RAMKA - Brooklyn, NY
11:21 A-113 CYNTHIA-REEVES - North Adams, MA
13:10 A-104 MC2GALLERY - Milan, Italy
13:51 A-113 CYNTHIA-REEVES - North Adams, MA
14:34 A-202 FERRIN CONTEMPORARY - North Adams, MA
15:05 A-207 ACACIA GALLERY - Havana, Cuba
15:51 A-212 CHRISTOPHER MOLLER GALLERY - Cape Town, SA
17:02 PROJECTS - Mia Taylor
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José Parlá Isthmus Exhibition Teaser I
Cuban American contemporary artist José Parlá’s “ISTHMUS” exhibition running parallel to the 16thIstanbul Biennial of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts.
Inspired by Istanbul and Bosporus, the exhibition is named “ISTHMUS”which means “a strip of land with the sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.” In the scientific terminology of “ISTHMUS” will consist of Parlá’s new works on paper, glass and paintings, as well as ceramics produced in collaboration with the established ceramics company Gorbon, whose approach to design is rooted in traditional Turkish handicrafts.
Parlá describes his process as “imagining what calligraphy from my part of the world could look like and represent to future generations” and his concept of ISTHMUS signifies the calligraphic mode of image production as a means of cultural expression. Istanbul is a strip of land connecting two continents, Asia and Europe, physically. For Parlá, symbolically, and metaphorically the city also becomes a bridge uniting Eastern and Western cultures.
The artist presents references to the calligraphic tradition and memory of the city whose history spans millennia, drawing inspiration from renowned museums and collections such as the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum.
José Parlá adopts an expressionist approach based on improvised movement in his works where he uses multiple layers by incorporating various found materials from daily life in his compositions. This is a reflection of the research-based approach to “urban environments” that the artist has been foregrounding in his work. Some of his pieces featuring the “living textures” of the global cities he visits are part of the collections of such reputable institutions as British Museum and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba.
José Parlá gained international acclaim for his monumental mural ONE: Union of the Senses produced for One World Trade Center, the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in New York, and the largest canvas painting of its kind in the tallest building of the Western Hemisphere.
In an interview, Parlá describes his abstract language with the following words: “Calligraphy has the gesture of the human body within its poetic movement, and although it can be literal, it can also be a form of abstraction. Contributing to American street writing sub-culture, I wanted to create a universal style that could be compared to traditional calligraphies from around the globe. This helped me to imagine how I could incorporate the gesture of a passerby into my paintings that would tear an advertising poster or write a political message on a wall.”
Social Practice Changes
Amidst seemingly growing worldwide political unrest, this conversation focuses on the social practice works of two artists in the Unlimited sector. The question of whether art has the ability to implement measurable change will be addressed, as well as the impact of these artists’ works on the art community and communities at large. What is the function of art within society? How do we know when social practice art fails? What changes can we expect in this realm of art?
Sue Williamson, Artist, Cape Town; Carlos Garaicoa, Artist, Havana/ Madrid.
Moderator: Gianni Jetzer, Curator of Art Basel's Unlimited sector, and Curator-at-Large, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Friday, June 16, 2017, 3pm - 4pm.
Filmed on site at Art Basel in Basel 2017.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.[2] The main museum building was completed in 1928[6] on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval.[1] The museum administers collections containing over 240,000 objects including major holdings of European, American and Asian origin.[3] The various classes of artwork include sculpture, paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, armor, and decorative arts.[3]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art administers several annexes including the Rodin Museum, also located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, which is located across the street just north of the main building.[7] The Perelman Building, which opened in 2007,[8] houses more than 150,000 prints, drawings and photographs, along with 30,000 costume and textile pieces, and over 1,000 modern and contemporary design objects including furniture, ceramics and glasswork.[9] The museum also administers the historic colonial-era houses of Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove, both located in Fairmount Park.[10] The main museum building and its annexes are owned by the City of Philadelphia and administered by a registered nonprofit corporation.[7]
Several special exhibitions are held in the museum every year, including touring exhibitions arranged with other museums in the United States and abroad.[11][12] The attendance figure for the museum was 793,000 in 2017, which ranks it among the top one hundred most-visited art museums in the world.[4] The museum is also one of the largest art museums in the world based on gallery space.
Art Deco in Shanghai
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Havana | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:10 1 Etymology
00:03:36 2 History
00:03:46 2.1 Colonial period
00:03:56 2.1.1 16th century
00:07:38 2.1.2 17th century
00:08:24 2.1.3 18th century
00:10:59 2.1.4 19th century
00:13:14 2.2 Republican period and post-revolution
00:18:23 3 Geography
00:19:53 3.1 Climate
00:22:25 4 Cityscape
00:25:37 4.1 Districts
00:29:31 4.2 Architecture
00:38:12 4.3 Landmarks and historical centres
00:42:16 5 Coat of arms
00:42:26 6 Culture
00:43:28 6.1 Old Havana
00:46:11 6.2 Barrio Chino
00:48:47 6.3 Visual arts
00:53:39 6.4 Performing arts
00:55:42 6.5 Festivals
00:56:08 7 Tourism
00:59:41 8 Economy
00:59:50 8.1 Industry
01:03:11 8.2 Commerce and finance
01:05:16 9 Demographics
01:09:47 9.1 Religion
01:11:55 9.2 Poverty and slums
01:15:43 10 Transport
01:15:53 10.1 Urban buses
01:18:12 10.2 Airports
01:19:13 10.3 Rail
01:21:23 10.4 Interurban (tram)
01:21:49 10.5 Ferry
01:22:15 10.6 Roads
01:23:50 11 Administration
01:27:04 12 Infrastructure
01:27:15 12.1 Education
01:28:45 12.2 Health
01:30:09 12.3 Services
01:31:09 13 Sports
01:32:36 14 Notable people
01:32:50 15 International relations
01:33:02 15.1 Diplomatic offices
01:33:37 15.2 Twin towns – sister cities
01:34:06 16 In popular culture
01:34:49 17 See also
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Havana (; Spanish: La Habana [la aˈβana] (listen)) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. The city has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of 781.58 km2 (301.77 sq mi) – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the fourth largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region.The city of Havana was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century and due to its strategic location it served as a springboard for the Spanish conquest of the Americas, becoming a stopping point for treasure-laden Spanish galleons returning to Spain. The King Philip II of Spain granted Havana the title of City in 1592. Walls as well as forts were built to protect the old city. The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana's harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish–American War.The city is the center of the Cuban government, and home to various ministries, headquarters of businesses and over 90 diplomatic offices. The current mayor is Marta Hernández of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). In 2009, the city/province had the third highest income in the country.Contemporary Havana can essentially be described as three cities in one: Old Havana, Vedado and the newer suburban districts. The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbors: Mari melena, Guanabacoa and Antares. The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north, entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay.The city attracts over a million tourists annually; the Official Census for Havana reports that in 2010 the city was visited by 1,176,627 international tourists, a 20% increase from 2005. Old Havana was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is also noted for its history, culture, architecture and monuments. As typical of Cuba, Havana experiences a tropical climate.
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Marlins Park is a baseball park located in Miami, Florida. It is the current home of the Miami Marlins, the city's Major League Baseball franchise. It is located on 17 acres of the former Miami Orange Bowl site in Little Havana, about 2 miles west of Downtown. Construction was completed in March 2012, in time for the 2012 season.
The stadium is designed in a neomodern form of baseball architecture. Marlins Park was also LEED certified as the greenest MLB park in 2012. The building is the sixth MLB stadium to have a retractable roof. With a seating capacity of 37,442, it is the third-smallest stadium in Major League Baseball by official capacity, and the smallest by actual capacity.
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Israeli Artist Depicts Pain Of Rootless Jews In Berlin Exhibition
Moshe Gershuni's expressive, historically loaded art, which places symbols of the Holocaust in a religious setting and seeks to polarize opinion about current Israeli society, seems unlikely to reward the casual viewer.
Titled No Father No Mother, the retrospective of paintings and ceramics since 1979 in the New National Gallery is the first solo show by an Israeli artist to be opened at Berlin's premier location for modern art.
The focus is especially poignant in Germany, where a Jewish population of over half a million in 1933 was annihilated in the Holocaust, with just 30,000 surviving by 1945.
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Havana (; Spanish: La Habana [la aˈβana] (listen)) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. The city has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of 781.58 km2 (301.77 sq mi) – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the fourth largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region.The city of Havana was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century and due to its strategic location it served as a springboard for the Spanish conquest of the Americas, becoming a stopping point for treasure-laden Spanish galleons returning to Spain. King Philip II of Spain granted Havana the title of City in 1592. Walls as well as forts were built to protect the old city. The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana's harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish–American War.The city is the center of the Cuban government, and home to various ministries, headquarters of businesses and over 90 diplomatic offices. The current mayor is Marta Hernández of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). In 2009, the city/province had the third highest income in the country.Contemporary Havana can essentially be described as three cities in one: Old Havana, Vedado and the newer suburban districts. The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbors: Mari melena, Guanabacoa and Antares. The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north, entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay.The city attracts over a million tourists annually; the Official Census for Havana reports that in 2010 the city was visited by 1,176,627 international tourists, a 20% increase from 2005. Old Havana was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is also noted for its history, culture, architecture and monuments. As typical of Cuba, Havana experiences a tropical climate.In May 2015, Havana was selected as one of the so-called New7Wonders Cities together with Beirut, Doha, Durban, Kuala Lumpur, La Paz, and Vigan.
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Sightseeing tour of the small town of Albissola Marina, which is a unique tourist destination for art lovers. We start from Lam square, named for the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam. Then we walk through the artists' promenade with its long mosaic, a unique outdoor museum!
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