Mois: avril 2023

6 May 16:00 Art historian and biographer Julia Frey will be at Bill & Rosa's Book Room to discuss her book Venus betrayed : the private world of Edouard Vuillard, a thought-provoking biography of a secretive turn-of-the-century French artist. Many have researched Édouard Vuillard, a prolific painter, for his contributions to the avant-garde. But what sets Venus Betrayed  apart is its attention to the figure behind the paintings. Frey uses Vuillard’s body of work and unpublished journals to access the interior state of the artist. Frey subtly reveals this life through his relationships with contemporaries from Toulouse-Lautrec to Mallarmé; the ideas that obsessed him; his often-tortured artistic process. Frey has produced a deeply intimate picture of the artist in life and at work. The result is a refined perspective into both the artist’s masterpieces and unfinished projects, as well as a striking argument for the relationship between artistic atmosphere and production.…

The Musée national Picasso-Paris hosts the first exhibition in France to bring together a group of major works by Faith Ringgold. She is an emblematic figure of a committed and feminist American art, from the struggles for civil rights to those of Black Lives Matter, and the author of very famous works of children's literature. Her work links the rich heritage of the Harlem Renaissance to the current art of young black American artists. Through her rereadings of modern art history, she leads a true plastic and critical dialogue with the Parisian art scene of the early 20th century, notably with Picasso and his Demoiselles d'Avignon. Born in New York City in 1930, Faith Ringgold grew up in Harlem, the northern part of Manhattan that became the symbolic capital of the cultural awakening of black communities between the wars. She spent her childhood in a thriving community of creators, musicians, writers and thinkers. She continued to live and work there as an artist and pu…