A revealing exploration of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s genre paintings and the cultural significance of his depictions of ordinary people\nBartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) is best known for his religious subject matter, yet some of his most iconic works depict secular themes. Celebrating Murillo’s genre paintings and shedding new light on the innovative portrayals of beggars, street urchins, and flower girls in the artist’s culturally rich narratives of youth and age, romance and seduction, and faith and charity, this generously illustrated volume features insightful essays that address Murillo’s art through the lenses of antiquity, northern culture, portraiture, and diversity in the city of Seville. The catalogue also contains detailed commentaries on the more than fifty works included in the exhibition, further exploring these paintings’ complex meanings to reveal their importance in their own time and suggest their relevance in our own.\nDistributed for the Kimbell Art Museum\nExhibition Schedule:Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX 
(September 18, 2022–January 29, 2023)

Murillo: From Heaven to Earth

Arts & Photography

Kientz, Guillaume

Individual Artists

Kimbell Art Museum

"Walking between these figures feels like an interruption; being a spectator is itself a performance. They seem to know more than we do, about the status of being an artwork and the place of the viewer. The joke, if there is one, is on us." - The Guardian Muñoz's revolutionary oeuvre creates emotional and evocative narratives through sculpture, installation, drawing, writing, and sound. Situating viewers between his work and amongst each other, he creates an intimacy between works of art and viewers. Muñoz thought deeply about art history and in particular the tradition of Spanish painting. Before his untimely death at the age of forty-eight, he produced an extensive, powerfully evocative body of work that uniquely explores the narrative and philosophical possibilities of art. Published on the occasion of the two-floor exhibition at David Zwirner in New York in 2022, this catalogue provides an expansive overview of Muñoz's career from the 1980s onwards. In an accompanying text, art historian and curator Guillaume Kientz contextualizes Muñoz's influences within the art-historical canon. Acclaimed writer Siri Hustvedt writes a thoughtful response to the artist's iconic Conversation Piece. In an imagined interview between Muñoz and himself, Maurizio Cattelan further propels the artist's artistic momentum and potential in the time before his death. Also featured is a never-before-published interview between Muñoz and the art historian Michael Brenson that took place in 2000, less than one year prior to his untimely death.

Juan Muñoz: Seven Rooms

Hustvedt, Siri

Muñoz, Juan

CATTELAN, MAURIZIO

History & Criticism

David Zwirner Books

Velazquez. L'Affrontement de la peinture

COHEN ET COHEN

Dès les origines du musée d'Orléans au XIXe siècle, le Saint Thomas fait partie du coeur des collections. Le célèbre historien de l'art Roberto Longhi le reconnaît en 1920 comme un chef-d'oeuvre du jeune Velázquez encore installé dans sa ville natale. Ce livre brosse un large paysage de l'histoire de ce tableau, remontant le temps des cimaises d'Orléans jusqu'à sa création dans la poussière de Séville, premier port d'Europe, pont entre deux mondes.

Sur les traces du Saint Thomas de Velazquez: Dans la poussière de Séville

Dury, Corentin

IN FINE

Mexique au Louvre -espagnol-

BROWN, JONATHAN

EL VISO

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