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Frances Forbes-Carbines

Frances Forbes-Carbines

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‘La Bohème’ at the Royal Opera House Brings 19th-Century Paris to Life in Stunning Detail

The experience of watching this opera is so very intense that the subtitles are often unnecessary.

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Frances Forbes-Carbines

Gérard Garouste Is Château Mouton Rothschild’s Latest Label Artist

The prestigious list of the wine estate's collaborators includes artists like Dali, César, Miró, Chagall, Picasso and Warhol.

09.12.2024 2

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Frances Forbes-Carbines

‘The Tales of Hoffmann’ at London’s Royal Opera House Shines Even as It Stutters

“Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour” sing a soprano and mezzo-soprano sensuously, while around them, revelers glide smoothly across the mirrored room....

21.11.2024 5

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An Exhibition in Luxembourg Takes a Gendered Look at Artists’ Engagement With Early Computing

“Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do anything when it comes to technology,” artist Tamiko Thiel says at a recent panel discussion when...

08.11.2024 10

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Hilma af Klint’ at Guggenheim Bilbao Shows a Seldom-Seen Side of the Artist’s Oeuvre

The artist rarely presented her abstract art publicly and never showed it in mainstream artworld settings.

05.11.2024 1

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At Opera Gallery, Gustavo Nazareno Bridges Spiritual and Contemporary

There’s something about the majesty of self-taught artists that makes you stop in your tracks and think. All the old masters—Titian, Raphael, Da...

29.10.2024 3

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‘Eliza Kentridge, Tethering’ at Cecilia Brunson Projects Is Heavy With Meaning

To visit London’s Cecilia Brunson Projects this summer is to experience a beguiling departure from everyday life; a tonic for the shallowness of the...

23.07.2024 5

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Louisa Treger’s Retelling of Dora Maar’s Relationship with Picasso Reveals the Human Behind the Muse

Before Maar was Picasso's Muse, she was a renowned artist admired by the likes of André Breton.

25.06.2024 4

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Tate Britain’s ‘Now You See Us’ Celebrates 400 Years of Underappreciated Talent

What a feeling it must be to prove one’s detractors wrong, and to do so graciously and to public acclaim. When relatively unknown artist Sarah...

04.06.2024 8

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John Singer Sargent and the Art of Dressing to Impress

“The drawing is bad, the color atrocious, the artistic ideal low,” raged art critic Louis de Fourcaud in 1884, reviewing that year’s Paris...

16.04.2024 10

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