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Johnny Depp has confirmed that Al Pacino has accepted a role in the biopic of artist Amedeo Modigliani, which will become Depp’s second film as director. Pacino will play the role of real-life art collector Maurice Gangnat (whose portrait was painted in 1916 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir) in Modi, a drama adapted from a play by Dennis McIntyre. Italian...

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As a child, I was intrigued by Amedeo Modigliani’s art. Looking back, I’m not surprised. After all, Modigliani was a modern painter who depicted stylized women, men, and children, a people person who executed few landscapes or still lifes. To make his portraits of mostly seated figures, he focused on heads and torsos as if he were an Italian Renais...

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Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated necks … all well-known characteristics of an Amedeo Modigliani masterpiece. Less well known? The brains behind that brush. At the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, curators and conservators are using new technologies to unearth old secrets from beneath the canvas. Their findings are part of the exhibition "Mo...

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Johnny Depp is due to hop back into the director’s seat for the first time in 25 years with Modigliani, a feature film about the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, which he will co-produce alongside Al Pacino. Sources close to Depp confirmed the news of the production with Deadline. Barry Navidi will co-produce alongside Depp and Pacino. The film ma...

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On Monday, November 23, 11:30 – 12:30pm, to mark the centenary of Modigliani’s death, Nancy Ireson, the Barnes’s Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions & Gund Family Chief Curator, joins Simonetta Fraquelli, an art historian and specialist in 20th-century European art, to explore new perspectives on the artist. Click here to register! Thou...

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When: From Friday, November 13, 2020 to Sunday, November 15, 2020 - Organized by : Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles In collaboration with : San Diego Italian Film Festival - Entrance : Free To mark the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Modigliani's passing, this documentary film explores the life and work of artiste maudit Amedeo Mo...

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Livorno puts the high school report cards of Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920) on display, while a large successful exhibition dedicated to the artist for the centennial of his death continues. The report cards emerged from research at the historical archive of the Niccolini Guerrazzi high school in Livorno, where Modigliani was a student. They are bei...

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Amedeo Modigliani, known for his portraits featuring elongated necks and faces, is being honoured by Italy with a major exhibition in Livorno, where the Italian painter and sculptor was born 100 years ago. The Museo della Città in the Tuscan coastal city of Livorno presents 14 paintings and 12 drawings by Modigliani, which are rarely shown to the p...

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Even a year ago, “Modigliani: Unmasked,” an exhibition at New York City’s Jewish Museum, would not have been as timely, though its pleasures would have been just as assured. A showcase of Italian-Sephardic Jewish Amedeo Modigliani’s work as a sculptor and a craftsman suggests his defiant embrace of his outsider status informed his identity as well...

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