Tag: Matisse
'Sting and Trudie Styler Auction Paintings and Other Effects From London Home at Christie's
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'Matisse Documentary Coming to Theaters Through MoMA, Fathom Events
The Museum of Modern Art will soon begin to experiment with bringing its popular exhibitions into movie theaters starting with "Matisse," a documentary based on the highly popular exhibition “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs.” The 90-minute, high-definition film will feature footage of the exhibitions as they were being organized and installed, along with historical films of Matisse and interviews with curators, conservators and museum officials. The film is being produced by Fathom Events, which has brought live transmissions of Metropolitan Opera productions into movie theaters for several years. The Arts Alliance and Seventh Art Productions, the company that created “Leonardo Live,” based on the popular exhibition at the National Gallery in London, will also be involved in the making of the documentary. -
'UPDATE: Leon Botstein's American Symphony Orchestra Concert at Carnegie Hall, "New York Avant-Garde," Will Go On!
UPDATE: A source has confirmed that this American Symphony Orchestra concert will go ahead at Carnegie Hall tonight. There had been fears that it, like the Philadelphia Orchestra concert last night, would be canceled. This, then, makes the ASO concert also the Carnegie season-opener. Again, the theme of the evening is the manner in which the legendary 1913 Armory Show influenced the modernist composers of the 1920s.
