Posts Tagged ‘San Diego Museum of Art’
New Music Easy on the Ear and Kind to the Soul
The choral ensemble SACRA/PROFANA was featured on Art of Élan’s November 26 concert at the San Diego Museum of Art. The choir’s contribution was a striking performance of American composer Michael Gandolfi’s 2011 work “Winter Light,” two movements for string quartet and mixed choir based on poems by Amy Lowell.
Read MoreA Time Warp of “Camp”: De Lucchi, Piranesi, & Factum Arte at SDMA
“Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design” is very much like “The Rocky Horror Show.” Like the musical’s pivotal gender bending mad genius character Frank ‘N’ Furter who continuously alters his persona, Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778) was also a mad genius who perpetually had to alter his persona from architect to printer and an influential designer of the Rococo and Neoclassical periods to finally become an architectural historian.
Read MoreCaravaggio at LACMA (and in San Diego?)
Could a Caravaggio painting, which turned out not to be a Caravaggio, become a Caravaggio painting again? If this all sounds very confusing, that is because it is! This “now you see it, now you don’t, now you might see it again” scenario is actually fairly common in the art world’s circle of scholarly debate.…
Read MoreMasterworks from China’s Suzhou Museum at SDMA
If parts of Stonehenge and paintings by both Michelangelo and Raphael were at the San Diego Museum of Art, would you go? Objects as mysterious as Stonehenge and artwork as great as those by the famous Renaissance masters are all apart of Chinese history. Stonehenge, a colossal arrangement of stones in Great Britain, is still…
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