Did you know that Van Gogh, during the last three months of his life, produced up to 500 works? The death of the master, on July 29, 1890 is still a mystery: against the suicide theory, the best known, in 2011 came the thesis that Van Gogh was killed by accidental firing caused by two boys playing with a gun.
The Tate Britain (London, United Kingdom) explores the capital city through the eyes of some of the biggest names in international photography. In the years between 1930 and 1980, some of the best-known photographers from around the world came to London to make work about the city and its communities.
The Lion Courtyard in the Alhambra, the greatest of the region's Nasrid period monuments, will open to the public once again tomorrow with a new flooring of white Macael marble that will allow visitors to approach the central fountain, which has been inaccessible to tourists since the 1990s.
On occasion of the Olympic Games, all eyes are on London. The city, which shows off its finery to welcome athletes from around the world, is also the epicenter of numerous exhibitions.
MoMA’s ambitious survey of 20th century design for children is the first large-scale overview of the modernist preoccupation with children and childhood as a paradigm for progressive design thinking.
The exhibition will bring together areas underrepresented in design history.
