Craftspersons are using a large number of ancient terms in the workshops of the Manufactory. The terms are poetic and full of imagery. Moreover, they are linked with special production techniques and skills, as well as with tools designed and produced in situ. Here is a presentation of these terms in a glossary.
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Modern and abstract color full watercolors by french painter François Nugues showing now in ID Gallery.

French painter Jérôme Romain is showing is new work in ID Gallery with two series : “New Year” (painting partying people) and “The Used” (post industrial still painting).

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Peoples throughout history have bought, adopted or pillaged technologies from one another, often through the mechanisms of war, trade and espionage. ‘Nations’ and ‘cultures’ are not discrete entities, but are rather continually evolving expressions of social history, economic imperialism and geo-politics.

Viewed in this way, globalization is a historic trend, but one that is accelerating. The rate and extent of globalization has increased exponentially through increasingly complex technological revolutions – agricultural, industrial, and now, digital. Yet, simultaneous to this technological convergence, the cleavages …

Unique creation by Xavier Veilhan will be sold at Artcurial next july, 20th.
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Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “Claude Monet: Late Work.” The most significant gathering of Monet’s late paintings to take place in New York in more than thirty years, it will focus on the most important late subjects drawn from his gardens at Giverny—Nymphéas, Le pont japonais, and L’allée de rosiers—which are among the most treasured paintings of his long and prodigious career.

The exhibition begins with a selection of early Nymphéas that were first shown in 1909 at the Galerie Durand-Ruel to great critical acclaim. From these delicate, poetic paintings …

Russian painter and conceptual artist Alexander Melamid is to have a solo exhibition of thirty paintings on view and for sale at Phillips de Pury & Company in London. Including the now renowned series of life-size portraits of hip-hop stars such as Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, the paintings then shift from ‘fame’ to the ‘mundane’, with a further group of works from 2006 - 2010 that have so far remained unseen, including portraits of priests and rabbis, Russian oligarchs, sculptures of ancient Roman figures, animals and stones.

Melamid himself is …