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...located in today's 18th Arrondissement, Montmartre became a base for economic migrants from the French countryside during the mid-19th century as well as a refuge for poor Parisians forced to the periphery. Its cheap lodgings also attracted plenty of writers and artists such as Renoir, Van Gogh and Picasso, and the easels scattered around Place des Tertre serve as a reminder that art still plays an important part in the life of "the hill...
...located in today's 18th Arrondissement, Montmartre became a base for economic migrants from the French countryside during the mid-19th century as well as a refuge for poor Parisians forced to the periphery. Its cheap lodgings also attracted plenty of writers and artists such as Renoir, Van Gogh and Picasso, and the easels scattered around Place des Tertres serve as a reminder that art still plays an important part in the life of "the hill...
...nothing is Da Fen known as the art world's assembly plant. As we walked its grid, we were greeted by a phantasmagoric palette of Rubens, Da Vinci and Van Gogh copies. Painting quietly in an alleyway, one young artist seemed to find us rather than vice versa. As Tamara translated, he cast an appreciative eye over a printout of De Chirico's Enigma, and promised a 2-sq.-ft. canvas reproduction, in a fortnight...
...words, they are priceless, irreplaceable, and we do not speak of them in terms of dollar value,” Deputy Director of the Art Museums Richard Benefield says in an e-mail. Yet the collection is littered with priceless masterpieces. From its famous self-portraits of Vincent Van Gogh and Max Beckmann to its collection of Pablo Picasso paintings to its comprehensive set of Chinese jades, HUAM’s line-up of household-name artists can compete with blockbusters at other museums.Despite the size of the holdings, much of the art that is not on display?...
...part to Raw magazine, the alternative comics showcase that Spiegelman co-edited. In the early '90s he also convened a summit of museum curators in his Soho studio to help them understand what comics were. And weren't. "Comics are not necessarily trying to do what a Van Gogh on the wall was trying to do," he said. "They aren't the same kind of direct expression. They have something more in common with architectural drawings and set design. They are picture writing that has to function with other drawings on the same page...