Mike Leigh’s “Mr. Turner” Shows Art as Hard Work
“Leigh’s Mr. Turner is a gentleman by social position, but he’s also a brute laborer, with paint-spattered hands.”
Read More“Leigh’s Mr. Turner is a gentleman by social position, but he’s also a brute laborer, with paint-spattered hands.”
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Read MoreLast chance! Exhibition of J.M.W. Turner to remain open late on Sunday, May 24.
Read MoreHow long does it take to install a painting in the Museum, from loading dock to gallery wall? For J.M.W. Turner’s Modern Rome—Campo Vaccino, the answer is seven days: really busy days, with lots of people working together to...
Read MoreJ. M. W. Turner would have felt right at home in Los Angeles.
Read MoreDo you have memories that feel more real than your life today? British painter J. M. W. Turner did, and they are the subject of this painting. The year is 1839. Turner, now in his 60s, has not set...
Read MoreWriting the gallery label for a painting can sometimes feel like an art form in itself, a kind of circumscribed descriptive poetry not unrelated to haiku. How, in fewer than 100 words, do you capture the essence of an...
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