A new Neo-Baroque ensemble made up of young local musicians will perform in Orange County early next year. Kontrapunktus’ Feb. 10 concert at Mission Basilica Catholic Church in San Juan Capistrano ...

Ovals, spirals, opulent materials, heroic gestures: what does the modern spirit know of these essential elements of Baroque art? Inveterate individualists, we cannot see pomp and grandeur as a way of ...

The 'Pastoral Pipe', a distinctive bellows-blown bagpipe, was created in the early-eighteenth century and prefigures the Union Pipe. It is an unrecognised component for the organology of European ...

What do utopian novels around 1900, the Paris World Fair of 1900 and Austrian neo-baroque architecture have in common? They propose deployments of and mediations between society and history, between a ...

2005-05-18 04:00:00 PDT Paris-- Back in the 1930s and '40s, the French design world thrilled to artists who made modern objects that combined up-to-the-minute allure with the authenticity of ...

PARADISE — There are two upcoming concerts in Chico and Paradise for music lovers to enjoy. First up is the Paradise Symphony concert at 3 p.m. March 10 called “Around the World in 80 minutes” — a ...

"It's the opposite of / Baroque, so I want / none of it,” Angie Estes declares in a poem called “Sans Serif,” from Chez Nous (2004). That brisk and irregularly rhymed poem announces Estes’s opposition ...

‘I didn’t realise it was meant to become so grand’, admits Athos Burez contentedly as he lays the finishing touches on the installations for his exhibition ‘Baroque Burez’, opened at Museum aan de ...