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Met’s Open Access

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, Fine Art, Met, Museum, NYC, Social Media

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Yesterday The Met announced a major update to the Museum’s policy governing the use and reuse of images in our collection: all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum’s collection are now available for free and unrestricted, this updated policy, known as Open Access, enables everyone to utilize more than 375,000 images of public-domain artworks in The Met’s collection in any media without permission or fee.

This is huge leading edge attitude;  by digital open access the Met is tearing down its own walls, giving everyone the opportunity to experience what its collection has to offer. Connecting people to the great masters, their works, their ideas and their knowledge. Allowing more than 5 thousand years of history to be seeing all around the world, inspiring  and educating the masses.

The Met is showing us that art is much more than its cost, it is about its value; and its value increases when it is shared.

There is no good reason why fine art should be “elited.”  It is part of our culture, our history, our own selves.

Here is more details about this policy: Open Access Policy

No Modern Wing for the Met…

13 Friday Jan 2017

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, Fine Art, Met, Museum, NYC

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city decided to postpone its extension of a new contemporary and modern wing (estimated $600 million) at least until 2022. New York Times has the full story: The Metropolitan Museum Will Delay a New $600 Million Wing

Trump’s Renoir

18 Friday Nov 2016

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, Fine Art, Impressionism, NYC, Renoir

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The Daily Mail photos of Trump’s New York apartment reveals that his wife, Melania, has in her office a copy of Renoir’s La Loge (the original is in the Courtauld). At least she has good taste in paintings.

Monet’s Record

17 Thursday Nov 2016

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, Fine Art, Impressionism, NYC, Van Gogh

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Last night was a busy one for NY Christie’s, breaking the world auction record for Claude Monet at $81.4 million, just over $1 million more than the previous record, which was set at Christie’s London in 2008. This was the highest result for an Impressionist & Modern Art sale at Christie’s since May 2014. This confirms that the Impressionist’s market is alive and well folks, and I’m loving it! Christie’s Sells Monet Painting for $81.4 Million

Van Gogh’s not a Van Gogh’s?

10 Thursday Nov 2016

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, Books, Met, Museum, NYC, Van Gogh

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Mr. James Grundvi, a construction manager who spent 3 years studying a Van Gogh’s book (not sure which one), published a book called ‘Breaking Van Gogh‘ where he  claims that one of Van Gogh’s most famous pictures, ‘Wheat Field with Cypresses‘ (Metropolitan Museum)  is a fake. Full article: New York Post

The Met has gamely played along and pointed out all the evidence in favour of the picture, including the fact that it is painted on the same bolt of canvas as many of his other pictures.

I still bought the book and will read it, just for the sake of it.

 

Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio at the Met

27 Thursday Oct 2016

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, Fine Art, Met, Museum, NYC, Social Media

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Great video about the new Met’s exhibition on Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio, and it is always nice to see met’s European wing curator Keith Christiansen, one of my favorite curator! Going to this exhibition this Saturday! Excited!

Atalanta and Meleager & TRUMP

11 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, Met, NYC

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Whoever says Donald Trump has no cultural value, certainly did not see his unlikely appearance in Rubens’ c. 1616 Atalanta and Meleager (display at the Metropolitan Museum)

You show them, Trump!

Publishing Art History Digitally Lecture at NYU

26 Monday Sep 2016

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, Met, NYC

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Conference coming up in New York this October about publishing art history digitally, more info: Publishing art History.  There’s still hope!

Old Master’s Market

08 Thursday Sep 2016

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, NYC, Uncategorized

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A few days ago The New York Times published an article on a supposedly Old Masters decreasing  of value: Can the Old Masters Be Relevant Again? which took me by surprise.

Today I found this graphic in  The Economist Magazine that illustrates a more realistic (at least in my opinion) statistic, some parts are doing well some aren’t, and that is understandable especially because it covers a  broad range of art.

So fear not my fellow followers, good art will always be relevant.

 

Knoedler Fakes: “Biggest Art Scam in the US History”

02 Thursday Jun 2016

Posted by Juliana Fernandes in Art Appreciation, Artist, NYC

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US Biggest Art Scam

Here is a good CBS ’60 Minutes’ on the Knoedler fake scandal, presented by Anderson Cooper.

 

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