Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/wednesdays-art-notes-60 Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Wednesday’s Art Notes Arts Feb 9, 2011 10:14 AM EST Paul Cezanne’s ‘The Card Players’ (1890-92) is the center of a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and comes from the museum’s own collection. The show, which opens Wednesday, looks at a series of Cezanne paintings that depict some of the same models as peasants in different poses and settings. * Twelve national critics published (mostly negative) reviews of the much-delayed Broadway show “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” while it was still in previews, much to the chagrin of the production team, via The New York Times. * Four prints by William Kentridge have been stolen from a Johannesburg gallery, via The Associated Press. * A public art installation in Portland, ME., will be removed because it’s seen more as an eyesore, having become over-run with weeds, via The Portland Press Herald. * Children’s author Brian Jacques, who wrote the very popular “Redwall” fantasy series, has died in England at the age of 71, via The Telegraph. A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue. Donate now
Paul Cezanne’s ‘The Card Players’ (1890-92) is the center of a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and comes from the museum’s own collection. The show, which opens Wednesday, looks at a series of Cezanne paintings that depict some of the same models as peasants in different poses and settings. * Twelve national critics published (mostly negative) reviews of the much-delayed Broadway show “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” while it was still in previews, much to the chagrin of the production team, via The New York Times. * Four prints by William Kentridge have been stolen from a Johannesburg gallery, via The Associated Press. * A public art installation in Portland, ME., will be removed because it’s seen more as an eyesore, having become over-run with weeds, via The Portland Press Herald. * Children’s author Brian Jacques, who wrote the very popular “Redwall” fantasy series, has died in England at the age of 71, via The Telegraph. A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue. Donate now