Word: monetizations
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...paper studies of the sky, circa 1850, with clouds that are variously stormy, striated, menacing and, rarely, light and fluffy. Boudin, then in his mid-20s, painted them outdoors, with rapid brushstrokes, and sometimes recorded the date, time and wind conditions on the back. He encouraged his friend Monet to try the same technique, an experiment that culminated in Monet's widely acclaimed variations on the Houses of Parliament in London and the waterlilies at his home in Giverny. Senn, an opinionated and eclectic collector, appears to have bought Boudin's work because he liked it, not just to support...
...flight for a few quid." When chewing over a getaway, he says, "the first thing I do is check [easyJet's] website." Not far from Legrand's house in Nice, the easyCruiseOne was docked, set against the muted tones of the port like a brushstroke in orange across a Monet. "Have you ever seen a ship as orange as that?" beamed Stelios at the gangway...
...another genius. Compare, contrast and voilà: You have a blockbuster exhibition guaranteed to bring in the crowds. The phenomenal success of the three-city "Matisse Picasso" show in 2002-03 helped inspire the thoughtful "Picasso Ingres" exhibit in Paris last year. Now there's the traveling "Turner, Whistler, Monet" exhibit currently at London's Tate Britain. This is the golden age of spot-the-influence shows. Some museumgoers see them as a two- or three-for-one bonus, others as a force-fed art history lecture. But there's no denying that when such exhibitions work, they can have...
Your story about the exhibition of Ralph Lauren's vintage autos [Feb. 28] referred to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' loan of 21 Monets to "the gallery at Steve Wynn's Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas." You said Wynn paid the museum a "reported $1 million" in exchange for the loan of the Monets. Wynn sold the Bellagio in 2000 and today has no connection to it or to the Monet exhibition, a collaboration between our gallery and the Boston Museum that required significant investment of time and money on both parts...
...traveled around the world and is back at the Fogg in the exhibit “To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop.” The exhibition features painting and sculpture by such artists as Blake, Degas, Gericault, Ingret, Monet, Pissaro and Renoir. Fogg Museum...