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| Worcester Magazine: Two Minutes with… Travis Simpkins |
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| Worcester Magazine: 2 Minutes With… Travis Simpkins |
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Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Worcester Magazine Interview: Two Minutes with… Travis Simpkins
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
BreuerPress International News: Access Magazine- Worcester Art Museum: Travis Simpkins
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| BreuerPress International News: Access Magazine- WAM: Travis Simpkins |
Monday, July 28, 2014
Access Magazine- Worcester Art Museum: Travis Simpkins- Avant garde on duty
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| Access Magazine- Worcester Art Museum: Travis Simpkins- Avant garde on duty |
Friday, July 25, 2014
Rembrandt (1936): Charles Laughton as the Dutch Old Master
Directed by Alexander Korda, Rembrandt (1936) takes a cinematically biographical look at the troubled life and artistic career of Rembrandt van Rijn. The focus is placed on drama over process, but is an enjoyable portrait of the Dutch Old Master in 17th Century Holland. Charles Laughton is excellent as Rembrandt. Laughton's real-life spouse, Elsa Lanchester, is wonderful and beautiful as Hendrickje Stoffels. Overall, a great production.
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| Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester |
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"Rembrandt"- promo
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa. by R.A. Scotti
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| Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa. |
Well worth the time… a great read.
"On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s most celebrated painting vanished from the Louvre. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. The sensational disappearing act captured the world’s imagination. Crowds stood in line to view the empty space on the museum wall. Thousands more waited, as concerned as if Mona Lisa were a missing person, for news of the lost painting. Almost a century later, questions still linger: Who really pinched Mona Lisa, and why? Part love story, part mystery, Vanished Smile reopens the puzzling case that transformed a Renaissance portrait into the most enduring icon of all time." -amazon.com
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| Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa. |
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| Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa. |
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| Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa. |
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
ARCAblog: Movies "The Maiden Heist" and "St. Trinian's" offe...
ARCAblog: Movies "The Maiden Heist" and "St. Trinian's" offe...: Worcester Art Museum's Renaissance Court (WAM) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief In Southern California from w...
Vermeer, Anthony Amore, Terri Priest and Travis Simpkins
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| Anthony Amore, Vermeer and Travis Simpkins |
Currently, I have two friends that are obsessed with Johannes Vermeer… and for two very different reasons:
- Anthony Amore is the Chief Investigator and Director of Security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. His top priority is to recover the 13 masterpieces stolen from the museum during the famous heist on March 18, 1990. The most valuable of the works is Vermeer's "The Concert".
- Terri Priest is a modern artist, and always finds ways to bring unique narratives into her work. Her most recent series contrasts Vermeer's figures with backdrops of Modern Art (particularly Roy Lichtenstein).
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| Terri Priest, Vermeer and Travis Simpkins |
Friday, July 18, 2014
Anthony Amore and Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee
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| Anthony Amore, by Travis Simpkins. The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, by Rembrandt |
Anthony Amore,
Chief Investigator and Director of Security
at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
by Travis Simpkins.
and
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.
by Rembrandt.
Stolen on March 18, 1990
To report information on the Gardner Museum theft,
contact Anthony Amore by email at:
Friday, July 11, 2014
Gardner heist: Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) on the case
Gardner heist: Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) on the case
At last the mystery of the $500 million Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist may finally be solved, because “Sherlock” is on the case!
Benedict Cumberbatch, star of the PBS series on famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, did a tour of the museum earlier this week with head of security Anthony Amore. We’re told they retraced the steps of the infamous 1990 heist, when thieves, dressed as Boston police, handcuffed museum guards and made off with 13 priceless works of art. No doubt Sherlock stopped at the empty frames where some of the missing masterpieces once hung.
The stolen works include three Rembrandts — most notably, “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee”; Vermeer’s “The Concert”; Govaert Flinck’s “Landscape With an Obelisk”; five works on paper by the impressionist artistEdgar Degas; Edouard Manet’s “Chez Tortoni”; a Chinese vase; and a finial from a pole support for a Napoleonic flag.
“He came in for a little tour,” museum spokesgal Jennifer Rosenberg told the Track. “He met some of the staff. He loved the museum and spent quite a bit of time walking around looking at different things. I guess he was an art history major, so he appreciated the historic value of the collections.”
Cumberbatch, who was nominated for an Emmy yesterday for outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or a movie for his portrayal of an updated character based on the iconic British detective, is in town to play former Senate prez Billy Bulger in the Johnny Depp flick “Black Mass,” about Billy’s
big bro, Southie gangsterWhitey Bulger.
The BBC recently announced that “Sherlock” would return for a fourth season in 2015.
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