Curatorial is a non-profit editorial project, a magazine that brings together information, news, and updates about events, works, or achievements in the art field, as well as about happenings, movements, and trends in urban culture

Follow us
Contact
Mescaline and Corneliu Michăilescu’s homage to Manet
Auguste Rodin’s “scandalous” nudes
Similarities and differences between the country markets painted by Grigorescu and Andreescu
Visual ode to Brâncuși’s inspiring tangible heritage
Forgotten Romanian painters – Expanding the historical and artistic horizon
MNAR’s only clearly authenticated Rembrandt
Mescaline and Corneliu Michăilescu’s homage to Manet

Mescaline and Corneliu Michăilescu’s homage to Manet

“The Newest Olympia”, painted in 1930 by Corneliu Michăilescu, is a tribute-painting to Édouard Manet's “Olympia”. Moreover, it is a result, one might say, of the period when the Romanian artist collaborated with the renowned neurologist Gheorghe...

Auguste Rodin’s “scandalous” nudes

Auguste Rodin’s “scandalous” nudes

”The Bronze Age” sculpture, which entered the Royal Family Collection early last century, is based on a controversial original. Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) made several bronze versions, after struggling to sell the original in France. The work...

Similarities and differences between the country markets painted by Grigorescu and Andreescu

Similarities and differences between the country markets painted by Grigorescu and Andreescu

Ioan Andreescu, of whom Nicolae Grigorescu said that ‘he is the greatest artist the country has ever had’, also considering himself, was influenced by him. In 1873, having set out on the road with the modest idea of supporting himself from a...

Visual ode to Brâncuși’s inspiring tangible heritage

Visual ode to Brâncuși’s inspiring tangible heritage

‘Finis Africae’, by Alexandru Crișan, the starting point of the exhibition ‘Roots’, a visual ode dedicated to the immovable material heritage, a meditation on the unchanged world that served as a source of inspiration for Constantin Brâncuși,...

Forgotten Romanian painters – Expanding the historical and artistic horizon

Forgotten Romanian painters – Expanding the historical and artistic horizon

"Forgotten Romanian Painters", part of the Art Safari season which starts on March 7, brings together more than one hundred paintings signed by dozens of artists who have made a significant contribution to the history of Romanian art, but whose...

MNAR’s only clearly authenticated Rembrandt

MNAR’s only clearly authenticated Rembrandt

The only clearly authenticated Rembrandt van Rijn painting in the National Art Museum of Romania (MNAR) is "Haman before Esther". It is on permanent display in the European Art Gallery, in the room bearing the painter's name, where are on permanent...

previous arrow
next arrow

Curatorial – Information and news from the art world

News on art and society in Romania and around the world.