The Coen brothers re-write Homer’s The Odyssey as a screwball comedy with George Clooney leading a trio of escaped convicts across America’s Depression era Deep South.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
February 3, 2010
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Naive Art Museum
February 15, 2009A brand new gallery/leisure centre has just opened near the town of Figueres, about two hours’ drive from Barcelona. The Museu d’Art Naïf, as the name suggests, specialises exclusively in naive and popular art, of which it has a huge collection which is rotated on a regular basis. Located in a country house with its own grounds, the museum boasts a bar with terrace, a cafeteria and a specialised bookshop. A strange and colourful mix of works is on display, including some African as well as European art.
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Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz
November 5, 2008David Wojnarowicz is a classic tale of the ’80s New York art world. A teenage Times Square hustler, he ended up as a graffiti collaborator of Keith Haring, and like Haring he soon found himself a downtown gallery celebrity. The New Museum retrospective brings together paintings, sculpture, installations, drawings, photographs and short films by the prolific visionary who succumbed to AIDS in 1992, the year his photograph of a buffalo heading over a cliff was immortalised in the rock video for U2′s ‘One’.
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Japanese Art from the Langen Collection
November 1, 2008A visiting exhibition of Japanese art taken from a German collection may have something of a ‘coals to Newcastle’ feel about it, but the quality of some of the works of art on display here is rarely matched, even in this country’s many galleries and museums. The collection was amassed immediately after the war by a German industrialist who fell in love with oriental techniques. More than 70 pieces from the collection are on display, including Buddhist paintings and sculptures and examples of the fine craftsmanship of the Edo period.
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