Otto Wagner

Otto Wagner or Viennese Art Nouveau – until 22/11

We recommend you to watch online the interesting documentary by Rudolf Klingohr titled “Otto Wagner or Viennese Art Nouveau”. You have a month to enjoy it as it is available in Arte website for you until November 22nd. It is in French but with subtitles in several languages. The video is a portrait of the master architect of…

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TEFAF New York Fall 2018 – NYC, 27-30 Oct. 2018

The third edition of the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) New York Fall is going to take place at Park Avenue Armory from October 27-31, 2018. It will Showcase fine and decorative art and jewelry from antiquity to 1920. Some say that TEFAF is the world’s best art fair and, although it is not very…

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Fine Arts & Flowers in Richmond, Virginia, from October 24 to 28

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond will hold the exhibition Fine Arts & Flowers from October 24th to 28th, 2018. The biennial museum-wide exhibition features more than 80 original flower arrangements with works from the museum’s permanent collection. Lectures and other special events will accompany the exhibition. According to the VMFA its collection…

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Catalana Occidente buys Gaudí’s Bellesguard Tower for 30 million

Torre Bellesguard, the Art Nouveau building designed between 1900 and 1909 by Antoni Gaudí, changed hands recently after the insurance group Catalana Occidente has agreed to buy it it for more than 33 million euros to the family Guilera, who owned it since 1944. This is a good deal for the owners who had to open it…

William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement in Great Britain - flowers

William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise – Cleveland Museum of Art up to Jan. 13

Nineteenth-century British artist William Morris is primary known for his textile designs. He was part of the so-called Arts and Crafts Movement of the late 19th century, which celebrated handcrafted artisan goods at a time when the industrial revolution threatened to make them obsolete, and his distinctive, intricate patterns drew from nature. The Cleveland Museum…

Alphonse Mucha exhibition – in Paris, until January 27, 2019

These days you can visit the first exhibition dedicated to Alphonse Mucha in Paris since his retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1980. Discover or re-discover this exceptional Czech artist in a show on display in the Musée Luxembourg of the French Capital until the 27th of January. A true icon of the Belle Epoque, Mucha represents the…

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Alphonse Mucha in Bologna – from Sept. 29 until January 20

From tomorrow September 29 2018 Bologna will host (for the first time) an important retrospective on the work of Alphonse Mucha. Until 20 January 2019 the halls of Palazzo Pallavicini will display 80 of the most famous works by the Czech artist, including 27 exhibited for the first time in Italy. An interesting Alphonse Mucha’s…

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Say it with flowers – in Belvedere, Vienna, until the end of September

If you are in Wien this September and you happen to be fond of flowers, we propose you a visit to the temporary exhibition “Say It with Flowers! Viennese Flower Painting from Waldmüller to Klimt“. Throughout the ages, flower pictures and drawings have been infused with strong symbolic power. In nineteenth-century Vienna, flower painting attained…

Visit Hotel Mezzara in Paris – only September 14 & 15

The Hotel Mezzara, located at the rue Jean de la Fontaine, 60 from Paris (16th arrondissement), is probably the most beautiful Art Nouveau building in Paris but is closed to the public all year long. Luckily for those that will be in Paris next weekend, you can visit for free its interior this Saturday 14…