Happy Birthday Degas!

Happy Birthday to Edgar Degas born on 19 July 1834! "Four Dancers" @ngadc https://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg89/gg89-46597.html …

Edgar Degas 
1834 - 1917
Four Dancers, c. 1899
oil on canvas
59 1/2" x 70 15/16"
National Gallery of Art -Chester Dale Collection
photo by Gregg Chadwick

Curator Guillaume Kientz on Velazquez at the Grand Palais

Curator Guillaume Kientz on Velazquez at the Grand Palais @GrandPalaisRmn : http://bit.ly/1GVUwh7 

Velázquez at the Grand Palais in Paris from March 15 to July 13, 2015

For me, exhibitions devoted to the paintings of the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez always evoke a sense of wonder and possibility. Velázquez' paintings hold me spellbound. I will be in Verona, Italy in May and will find my way to Paris for sure. Perhaps a rendezvous with the esteemed restorer from the Van Gogh Museum - René Boitelle?

An exhibition produced jointly by the RMN-Grand Palais and the Musée du Louvre, in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Curator : Guillaume Kientz, curator in the Department of paintings, Musée du Louvre
Exhibition design : Maciej Fiszer

Diego Velázquez
Portrait of Pope Innocent X56"x47" oil on canvas c1650
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome

25 March 2015 to 13 July 2015

Open : Sundays and Mondays from 10 am to 8 pm,

Wednesdays to Saturdays from 9 am to 10 pm

Closed on Tuesdays

Closed 1st May

Closed at 6pm on 25th and 26th March

Access : metro line 1 and 13 « Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau » or line 9 « Franklin D. Roosevelt »

Attributed to Diego Velázquez
Man With a Wine Glass
Toledo Museum of Art

DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ, FROM 15 MARCH TO 13 JULY 2015 AT THE GRAND PALAIS.

Happy Birthday Vincent Van Gogh!

Spend some time at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam today:
Van Gogh Museum Online

United 4 Iran: We Can Be Heroes - July 25, 2009

Green Scroll Unveiled in Paris - July 25, 2009


David Bowie's "Heroes" for the people of Iran. Amsterdam rallies - July 25, 2009


To the People of Iran: "We have heard your voices. We are with you!"
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu


Reza Aslan - "Stand Up for Iran"


Shirin Ebadi - Message of Support for Iran



Artists 4 Freedom is international in scope and is located between London, Barcelona, Lisbon and Berlin.
Link Below:
Artists 4 Freedom

Joyeux Noël

12/17 Paris, Palais Omnisports De Bercy