ARTS BRIEFING

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.