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...hands in New York, was out of my physical and financial reach. Then Tamara, my wife (who speaks fluent Cantonese), suggested Da Fen, the reproduction-art village in Shenzhen-the southern Chinese city roughly two hours by train and taxi from our Hong Kong home. Founded by Hong Kong painter Huang Jiang in 1989, Da Fen now hosts around 600 studios and 5,000 artists living out the Maoist dictum of "more, better, cheaper, faster...
...della Francesca, who, after centuries of being overlooked, is now considered one of the masters of the early Renaissance. Art historian Carlo Bertelli says Piero was appreciated at the time for his innovative way with perspective, but he is now also prized for his "enigmatic" touch. "He is a painter of enormous clarity, but also of great reflection," says Bertelli. "You could say that it was necessary that he 'slept' in these centuries so that he could be rediscovered." The most impressive gathering ever of his work, "Piero della Francesca and the Italian Courts," runs from March 31 through July...
...spent five years painting an abstract landscape of her life, 4 ft. high and 225 ft. long in 45 panels, which complements the poetry. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Hughes in an exclusive American interview from Hughes' home in Wales, where she lives with her husband, Hungarian-born painter Laszlo Lukacs...
...path to the office of Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) Director Thomas W. Lentz is paved with art-world gold. On the walls of his small study tucked away in the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum, the works of Georges Braque and Walter Sickert—the painter who some think led a double life as Jack the Ripper—represent just a small sample of Harvard’s massive holdings that students do not see.Lentz, who was named HUAM director in 2003, now manages the largest university art collection in the country. Harvard?...
...keen to soak up the local culture, but unlike most Florentines, their interests extended beyond city and national boundaries. Fabbri and Loeser became clients of Ambroise Vollard, the foremost art dealer of the time, based in Paris, and one of the few contemporary champions of Cézanne. The painter, who would be recognized after his death as one of the fathers of modern painting, the direct inspiration for Cubism and Fauvism, spent his twilight years living in isolation in Aix-en-Provence, France, scorned by critics and ignored by the public. Outside attention, when it came in the form...