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We need music now more than ever: Fender offers free guitar, bass, and ukulele lessons on Fender Play

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      Since 1946, Fender, the American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers, helped build the guitar community by empowering individuals to play and create music. This includes supporting artists through initiatives like the Uncancelled Music Festival and the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund to support musicians and touring personnel in need. Whether it be … Read more

The new Altuzarra x Etsy limited edition home décor capsule is sustainable designed and globally influenced

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  JAxEtsy: The new Altuzarra x Etsy Home Collection. This collection, handmade by eight Etsy artisans, represents Altuzarra founder’s love for craftsmanship and of the handmade. The fashion designer partnered with eight global Etsy artisans to create a limited-edition home collection – perfect for adding that special touch to your space. The limited-edition Altuzarra x … Read more

Love and obsession: how one of the finest UK ceramics collections ended up in a London council flat

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Michael Evans filled every available space with a treasure trove of British, French and Japanese works. Now they’re up for auction

Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize 2020 is open for entries

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    The Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize, the first of its kind, aims to discover and encourage excellent Chinese authors under the age of 45. The 3rd Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize themed “Joining the Ranks of Contemporaries” is open for entries until May 15, 2020. The Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize, co-founded by Swiss luxury watch brand Blancpain and … Read more

Since people cannot come to the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the Foundation is bringing the arts to them

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#FLVfromhome: The Fondation Louis Vuitton invites art & design aficionados to discover or rediscover its exhibitions online.

Louis Vuitton Foundation has reinvented its cultural offerings. Each week, the Fondation offers you the possibility to watch an exhibition, concert and a masterclass that has been presented in its grounds since its 2014 opening.

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Closed due to lockdown quarantine measures, the museum has reinvented its cultural offerings to bring visitors an exceptional artistic experience in their homes. Each week the Foundation Louis Vuitton invites the public to enjoy the works of great artists and major events that have marked the still young institution since its inauguration in 2014. The #FLVfromhome initiative features live events, interviews, rebroadcasts of concerts, guided tours of exhibitions and masterclasses. Via its social media pages, the Fondation Louis Vuitton proposes three rendezvous each week, echoing the diversity of its regular agenda.

For the beginning of April the program debuted with a presentation of the installation “Observatory of Light. In situ work” by Daniel Buren and a major concert featuring the work of composer Steve Reich.

Each week, the Louis Vuitton Fondation offers you the possibility to watch an exhibition, a concert and a masterclass on its Facebook page and YouTube channel. This week’s programme:

Wednesday, April 15 at 6.00 pm CET: The Fondation invites you to focus on “Olafur Eliasson: Contact”, an exhibition presented from 17 December 2014 to 16 February 2015. The film provides a tour of the exhibition with commentary by Olafur Elisasson and Suzanne Pagé.

Friday, April 17 at 8.30 pm CET: Recital of the pianist Alexandre Kantorow. Acclaimed by the greatest critics, Alexandre Kantorow won at 21 years old the prestigious Tchaïkovsky Competition which propelled him to the forefront of the international scene.

Sunday, April 19 at 5:30 pm CET: The Louis Vuitton Fondation will broadcast for the very first time, the final concert of the third edition of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle, directed by Gautier Capuçon.

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New platform brings Rembrandt and Vermeer to every living room in the world

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Rijksmuseum launches 10 ways to visit Rijksmuseum without leaving home.

700,000 high-resolution images of paintings and objects in the Rijksmuseum collection freely available for download.

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Free art history lessons with the world’s leading experts.

Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, today launches Rijksmuseumfromhome, 10 initiatives that bring the museum’s collection with paintings and objects to living rooms across the world.

Rijksmuseum re-opens Gallery of Honour during quarantine.

Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honour, home of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, The Jewish Bride, Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, among history’s most celebrated paintings, are again accessible to the public around the globe via a new online platform Rijksmuseum Masterpieces Up Close. This platform is an interactive experience, allowing visitors from the comfort of their living room to navigate through the gallery at their own leisure.

Rijksmuseum Masterpieces Up Close aims to recreate the experience of casually browsing a museum with a multimedia guide, with amongst others the latest high-resolution 360º images. Visitors ‘walk’ through the gallery at their own pace, zoom in on every tiny detail of each work of art, and listen to stories about 18 masterpieces. The platform is accessible for everyone by providing short videos, audio and text description.

Curators from home

Rijksmuseum curators share short videos from home with stories about their favourite works of art. All the videos are posted to Rijksmuseum social media channels. In the first video Pieter Roelofs, the Rijksmuseum’s Head of Painting and Sculpture, talks about Jan Steen’s The Merry Family.

Rijksstudio: online collection

Launched in 2012, Rijksmuseum started a revolution in the museum world when it made available more than 700,000 high-resolution images of its collection completely free of charge. Rijksstudio continues to be a major source of inspiration (and distraction) for designers and art lovers around the world. Rijksstudio was made possible thanks to the participants of the BankGiro Lottery.

Rijks App

Through ‘Rijks’, the Rijksmuseum app, visitors can access multimedia tours, Rijksstudio and more from anywhere in the world. In the new, more advanced, version, which will be launched in a few weeks, visitors are able to create their own tour of their favourite artworks.The Rijksmuseum app is connected by KPN.

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Operation Nightwatch

The Night Watch, Rembrandt’s largest and most famous painting, has been undergoing one of the most ambitious restoration projects ever. Keep up with all the latest news about Operation Nightwatch on a dedicated site populated with videos and articles in which experts explore different aspects of research they are conducting.

 

Experience The Night Watch

The Rijksmuseum and the Dutch national public broadcaster NTR have joined forces to develop an interactive website about The Night Watch. Never before has it been possible to get so close to this spectacular, world-famous painting.

 

RijksCreative

Teachers from Rijksmuseum’s Education Centre present YouTube tutorials on the techniques of the great masters, in the process creating new masterpieces of their own. Three seasons of films are already available, each one exploring a different art movement and technique.

RijksTube

RijksTube channel on YouTube hosts short videos that explore contemporary pop culture through the prism of the arts: i.e. speculating how The Night Watch might have been an unconscious inspiration for the poster of Avengers: Infinity War.

10 things…

‘10 things’ is a blog series where visitors are likely to discover something new about art and history through the Rijksmuseum collection. What are the 10 most essential things you need to know about The Night Watch? And what 10 things should you definitely know about Japanese art?

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