At Harvard Art Museums, paintings by renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Piet Mondrian, and Georges Seurat capture viewers' attention with their rich colors and practiced brush strokes. A fall exhibition strips down the styles that made these artists, and others, famous to expose raw expression and experimentation in the most basic form of composition - drawing.
There was a separate HVAC system for the Nevelson Chapel, but it was tied to the larger building's HVAC, so when one was shut off, the other shut off too. This led to the chapel's relative humidity rising to levels of close to 90%. "It caused some of the paint to peel in this extreme way," Singer tells The Art Newspaper.
In " Down Cemetery Road," Ruth Wilson looks like a frog. It's just in the first shot, when Wilson's character, Sarah Tucker, examines a priceless piece of art, as art conservationists tend to do. But director Natalie Bailey introduces her co-lead head-on: The extended magnifying glasses hang a few inches in front of her face, and the audience peers back at her baby-blue eyes as they bulge disproportionately from her studious visage.
A Banksy artwork has appeared in the London Transport Museum, following its creation by the anonymous artist in 2019. The artwork depicts a rat hanging from the arm of a clock and appeared in front of the artist's pop-up showroom installation, Gross Domestic Product. It was featured in a video posted by Banksy on Instagram in October 2019 and resembles the famous Harold Lloyd clock scene in his 1923 movie, Safety Last!
In the 1970s two scientists at the British Museum and the National Gallery in London did some research and made recommendations to their institutions based on the requirements of the HVAC system to maintain human comfort.
