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Art & Culture February 20, 2021

The Louvre Museum Adapts to Extended Closures in Paris

After closing in March 2020, reopening in July 2020, and closing again at the end of October, the famous Louvre Museum remains closed. One of the sectors that has been taking a major hit during COVID-19 is the museum world, due to large gatherings being banned and a lack of travel and tourists. However, the Louvre Museum has launched a series of virtual tours to open up its galleries to patrons from all around the globe. The virtual museum visits…

Art & Culture People March 5, 2020

The World of Visual Art with Angelique de Limburg Stirum

Recently, The Extravagant was given the exclusive privilege of interviewing Angelique de Limburg Stirum on her passion for artistic expression through portraiture. The young Belgian artist and former model is currently developing a unique take on modern portraiture. The daughter of the Count and Countess of Limburg Stirum is proving to be an innovator in a world where capturing human likeness on canvas is becoming increasingly underrated. Read on to see how Angelique’s own artistic ability has been shaped by…

Art & Culture People March 5, 2020

The Art of Portraiture with Fanny Rush

Portraits created by Fanny Rush are stylistically characteristic of a bygone era. The London based artist, who just built a new home and studio in Battersea after relocating from Chelsea, employs seldom used Old Master techniques in her portraits that immortalize both her subjects and their personalities. Rush’s prestigious commissions are numerous and include American Ambassador Robert Holmes Tuttle, famed actor Charles Dance OBE, as well as Sir William Castell, Chairman of the Wellcome Institute, to name just a few.…

Art & Culture February 10, 2020

Sotheby’s NOW! Online Auction To Feature African Art, Photographs, and Contemporary Design

From the 18th to the 26th of February, 2020 Sotheby’s will offer a wide range of stunning lots online as part of their sixth NOW! sale. Made up of 20th century Design Pieces, Contemporary Works, Photographs, as well as African and Oceanic Art Works, the auction is held exclusively online. Estimates for the lots in the sale range from €500 to €50,000. Curated by Lolita Cros, the NOW! sale includes pieces by artists and designers, such as Hans Hartung, Robert…

Art & Culture January 24, 2020

Exhibition “ame nochi hana” at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche in Paris: Wows in Spectacular Fashion

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche continues over 160 years of engagement to the arts with the debut of its latest art instillation, the exhibition by designer Oki Sato’s nendo titled “ame nochi hana”, which translates from the artist’s native Japanese meaning rain flowers. Aristide Boucicaut, who founded Le Bon Marché was well regarded for his love of the arts now continued by the department store’s owner LVMH. Over the past five years, Le Bon Marché has hosted five creative exhibitions…

Art & Culture October 1, 2019

Christie’s Online Banksy Auctions Totals Over €1.2 Million

Banksy: Girl with Balloon - Colour AP (Gold)

Banksy’s sarcastically titled “Banksy: I can’t believe you morons actually buy this sh*t” online auction with Christies grossed €1,256,357. The auction was named after one of Banksy’s 2007 works, which depicted an auction house filled with individuals fighting to pay hundreds of thousands for a framed image with the words “I can’t believe you morons actually buy this sh*t.” The most surprising aspect of the auction is that no works were automatically shredded as had occurred during a Sotheby’s auction nearly…

Art & Culture August 14, 2019

Maria Kochetkova Begs the Audience to “Catch Her if You Can” in Her Most Recent Project Since Leaving the San Francisco Ballet

Ballerina Maria Kochetkova and Sebastian Kloborg dance together in Catch Her if You Can.

In a series of dizzyingly graceful pirouettes, leaps, and arabesques, a stunned audience watched as 35-year-old ballerina Maria Kochetkova impressed in her performance of Catch Her if You Can in an intimate showing at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Displaying both artistry and strength through her movements, the former principal ballerina of the world-renowned San Francisco Ballet, was accompanied by four of her friends in the highly anticipated hour and a half long showcase, which was composed of…

Art & Culture People April 29, 2019

The Art of Beya Rebaï

Meet the young and talented Paris-born artist Beya Rebaï, who has a passion for color as she draws narrow and select tone focus pieces. Having studied illustration in Brussels, Belgium for three years, and later attempting her master degree in Paris, Beya’s love for art has only grown stronger as time went on. With an intense drive for creativity, Beya is always seen with a sketchbook and wax pastels in hand during her travels. Not restricting herself with just what…

Art & Culture March 13, 2019

When Art is Not About Art, But About You

Fred Sandback, American, 1943-2003. Untitled (One of Four Diagonals), 1970. Black Elastic Cord Installed Across a Room from an Upper Corner to the Lower Corner of the Diagonally Opposite Corner. Standing at the entrance to the Spaces: Works from the Collection 1966-1976, I hesitated, unsure whether to go in. There was almost nothing inside. From where I was standing, all I could see was just a black elastic cord installed across a room. I was trying to examine the elastic…

Art & Culture People March 2, 2019

Talking Art: Interview with Phoebe Dickinson

Meet one of the 21st century’s most gifted classical painters, London based Phoebe Dickinson. The 34 year old artist is turning heads with her quintessentially timeless portraits, which evoke a feeling of Gilded Age nostalgia. Probably best known in the United Kingdom, the artist has been heralded for her painting of Carson from Lord Julian Fellowes’ hit series Downton Abbey, as well as for her painting of the Cholmondeley children at Houghton Hall, which was selected for the 2018 BP…

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