Art and Museums
Exhibition Extended: From New York City to St. Augustine, Florida: The Downton Abbey Exhibition and Dressing Downton
The Downton Abbey-themed experience has opened: The Exhibition opened in New York City on Nov. 18, and runs through the month of January before traveling throughout the US. It will connect fans with their favorite characters, costumes, locations and historic events of the era, as well as showcase never-before-seen footage. In the meantime, the Lightner Museum in St. Augustine, Florida is presenting a costume history of the period surrounding World War I, a period that changed the social fabric of Great Britain.
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Klimt & Rodin: An Artist Encounter Breaking the Reigning Aesthetic Boundaries of the Time
Approximately 25 sculptures and works on paper by Rodin from the Fine Arts Museums’ collection will provide visual dialogues with the works by Klimt. The exhibition is thematically arranged around the Vienna Secession, Rodin's 1901 exhibition in Vienna, Rodin’s 1902 visit to Vienna, Klimt's landscapes and Rodin’s surfaces, and the depiction of women for both artists an eternal source of inspiration exploring shared touch points and developments in the two artists' practices throughout. more »
Walker Evans, Celebrating the Beauty of Everyday Life: "The Street Was An Inexhaustible Source of Poetic Finds"
Using examples from Evans' most notable photographs ? including iconic images from his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression on American life; early visits to Cuba; street photography and portraits made on the New York City subway; layouts and portfolios from his more than 20-year collaboration with Fortune magazine and 1970s Polaroids ? Walker Evans explores Evans' passionate search for the fundamental characteristics of American vernacular culture: the familiar, quotidian street language and symbols through which a society tells its own story. more »
Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia; What they Wore, Who They Traded With and What They Ate and Drank
There are stunning pieces of gold jewelry, gold applique to adorn clothes, wooden drinking bowls that are over 2,000 years old. Many objects show evidence of cultural interaction, from Scythian wine-drinking learnt from the ancient Greeks and Persians, through ancient Greek craftsmen who depicted archers in Scythian dress, and the gold objects in the Achaemenid Oxus Treasure in the British Museum’s collection influenced by Scythian art. more »