Who Paid $35.8 Million for Turner’s Vision of Venice?
Stephen A. Wynn, the Las Vegas casino owner and collector, bought J. M. W. Turner's "Giudecca, La Donna Della Salute and San Giorgio."

TRAVEL ADVISORY; Turner Seascapes To Visit Baltimore
Exhibit of works by late British landscape artist J M W Turner is set to open at Baltimore Museum of Art (S)…

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was not only Britain’s greatest painter but arguably the finest landscape and marine painter ever. Turner was enormously prolific, producing some 550 oil paintings, over 2,000 highly detailed and finely finished watercolours, and some 30,000 works on paper. His bequest to the nation of much of this output is without doubt the greatest artistic legacy ever bestowed upon the United Kingdom. It is housed in Tate Britain, London.

TRAVEL ADVISORY; Turner Seascapes To Visit Baltimore
Exhibit of works by late British landscape artist J M W Turner is set to open at Baltimore Museum of Art (S)…

Inside Art
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a Cuban-born American artist who died in 1996, has been chosen to represent the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Who Paid $35.8 Million for Turner’s Vision of Venice?
Stephen A. Wynn, the Las Vegas casino owner and collector, bought J. M. W. Turner's "Giudecca, La Donna Della Salute and San Giorgio."

Joseph Mallord William Turner went to Venice, in 1819, 1833, and 1840, spending only a total of about four weeks there. Even in that brief time the city cast its spell over him.

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Two paintings by J. M. W. Turner have been returned to the Tate Gallery in London eight years after they were stolen from an exhibition in Germany. Continue …

Stephen A. Wynn, the Las Vegas casino owner and collector, bought J. M. W. Turner's "Giudecca, La Donna Della Salute and San Giorgio." Continue …

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was one of the greatest romantic interpreters of nature

Inside Art
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a Cuban-born American artist who died in 1996, has been chosen to represent the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

ARTS BRIEFING
Arts Briefing; astronomers calculate that on July 13 moon will rise over southern French village in just same position as when van Gogh painted Evening Landscape with Rising Moon in 1889; Elvis Presley memorabilia to go on display in Liverpool under auspices of Beatles Story museum; Clark Art Institute to show Turner seascapes; Somerset House in London to show early photos of St Petersburg from Hermitage collection; 18th season of SummerStage to open in New York’s Central Park; photos; tenors Salvatore Licitra and Marcelo Alvarez to perform in Rome’s Colosseum; Bang on a Can Festival set for Symphony Space (S)…

THE TURNER SOCIETY

The Turner Society was founded in 1975 on the bicentenary of the birth of J.M.W. Turner RA to promote interest in the life, work and influence of Britain’s greatest painter.

It offers a full programme of events. These include lectures by leading experts on the artist; visits to the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection in London; and trips to important private collections not generally open to the public.
http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/events.htm

ARTS BRIEFING
Arts Briefing; astronomers calculate that on July 13 moon will rise over southern French village in just same position as when van Gogh painted Evening Landscape with Rising Moon in 1889; Elvis Presley memorabilia to go on display in Liverpool under auspices of Beatles Story museum; Clark Art Institute to show Turner seascapes; Somerset House in London to show early photos of St Petersburg from Hermitage collection; 18th season of SummerStage to open in New York’s Central Park; photos; tenors Salvatore Licitra and Marcelo Alvarez to perform in Rome’s Colosseum; Bang on a Can Festival set for Symphony Space (S)…

A Censorship Story Goes Up in Smoke; No Bonfire Devoured J.M.W. Turner’s Erotica
A curator at the Tate Britain has concluded that the prudish Victorian critic John Ruskin did not set fire to erotic drawings by the artist J. M. W. Turner.

Joseph Mallord William Turner went to Venice, in 1819, 1833, and 1840, spending only a total of about four weeks there. Even in that brief time the city cast its spell over him.

TRAVEL ADVISORY; Turner Seascapes To Visit Baltimore
Exhibit of works by late British landscape artist J M W Turner is set to open at Baltimore Museum of Art (S)…

The Color of Water
For J. M. W. Turner, the subject of James Hamilton’s biography, complex ideas were transformed into features of the landscape.

A Pair of Stolen Turners Are Returned to the Tate
Two paintings by J. M. W. Turner have been returned to the Tate Gallery in London eight years after they were stolen from an exhibition in Germany.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was one of the greatest romantic interpreters of nature