Joseph Gallivan interviews Bruce Guenther about "The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden"

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Tue, 06/24/2014 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Joseph Gallivan interviews Bruce Guenther about "The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden"
On Tuesday June 24  at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Bruce Guenther the Chief Curator of the Portland Art Museum.
Bruce  will talk about the current exhibition "The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden" which focuses on the elegant public space at the heart of Paris. The show runs until September 21, 2014.
Tuileries is pronounced TWEE-LER-EE
 
The Tuileries gardens were designed by the same landscape architect who did the chateaux gardens at Versailles, André Le Nôtre (1613–1700), and have been a public park since 1667, home to great plantings, statuary and of course people watching.  
 
From the press release:
Paris will come to the Park Blocks this summer with this international exhibition celebrating the Tuileries Garden. This stunning exhibition explores the art, design, and evolution of Paris’ most famous garden. It also celebrates garden designer André Le Nôtre (1613–1700)—best known for his grand perspectives and symmetry at the chateaux gardens of Versailles.
The Tuileries, which stretches from the Louvre to the Place de la Concorde in central Paris, was originally created in 1564 in the Italian style and became the city’s first public park in 1667. Created at the behest of Queen Catherine de’ Medici, the garden was designed to enhance the Tuileries Palace, which was destroyed by fire in the 1871 uprising known as the Paris Commune.
Originally, the garden was reserved exclusively for royalty, but starting in the late 17th century, it became increasingly accessible to the public. Art has played a critical role in the history of the Tuileries Garden. Its beauty has inspired generations of artists, and it has also functioned as an outdoor museum, with works from the classical to the contemporary dotting its vast grounds. This major exhibition will present more than 100 sculptures, paintings, photographs, and drawings by some of the most acclaimed European and American artists from the 17th to the 20th centuries, including works by Pissarro, Édouard Manet, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and others who have taken inspiration from the iconic Parisian landmark. Visitors will also see monumental sculpture by Coysevox and Bosio from the garden for the first time in the United States.
Special exhibition programming will include lectures with international scholars, en plein air painting in the Park Blocks, family activities, tours of parks, and more.
This special exhibition is co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Portland Art Museum, with the exceptional collaboration of the Louvre and the Musée Carnavalet Histoire de Paris. Host curated by Bruce Guenther, chief curator and The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
 
 
Joseph Gallivan has been a reporter since 1990. He has covered music for the London Independent, Technology for the New York Post, and arts and culture for the Portland Tribune, where he is currently the staff Business reporter. He is the author of two novels, "Oi, Ref!" and "England All Over" which are available on Amazon.com
josephgallivan@gmail.com 
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