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FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 12-14, 2010 ing the 12th-15th centuries A.D. in the At left, Uwe Lausen’s West African kingdom. ‘Untitled’ (Moon Landing) British Museum (1968) on show in Frankfurt; Until June 6 below, Florian Merkel’s ‘Magabe’ % 44-20-7323-8181 (2004), shown in Berlin. www.britishmuseum.org art “Victoria & Albert: Art & Love” ex- plores Queen Victoria and Prince Al- bert’s enthusiasm for art through 400 works from the Royal Collection. The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace Old Masters March 19-Oct. 31 % 44-20-7766-7300 www.royalcollection.org.uk — new era Lucerne music “Lucerne Festival at Easter 2010” features performances by Cecilia Art at Maastricht fair shines Bartoli, the Freiburg Barock Con- sort, and The King’s Consort from as collectors seek safer bets London in a performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Lucerne Festival March 18-28 % 41-41-2264-400 www.lucernefestival.ch Madrid music “The Cranberries” brings the newly re- united Irish rock band to Spain, performing classic hits alongside new material. March 12, Palacio Vistalegre, Madrid March 13, Pavello Olimpic Badalona, Barcelona March 14, Le Dome, Marseille March 16, Mediolanum, Milan March 17, Hallenstadion, Zurich March 19, Le Galaxie, Amneville March 21, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon March 22, Zenith, Paris March 23, Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam March 25 Forest National, Brussels More European dates at www.cranberries.com Uwe Lausen Amsterdam composer Mela Meierhans and Pales- figurative and Pop Art painter, along- art photography tinian singer Kamilya Jubran. side a room recreating the artist’s liv- “Pierre Huyghe: La Saison the Fëtes” is “First Light: Photography & Astron- Berliner Festspiele ing conditions. a site-specific installation by the French omy” showcases historical astronomy March 19-28 Schirn Kunsthalle artist in the Palacio de Cristal using photographs and present-day images % 49-30-2548-9218 Until June 13 flowers, plants and trees in bloom. made by telescopes and space probes www.berlinerfestspiele.de % 49-69-2998-820 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia/ Parque del Retiro, such as ESO, Hubble and Cassini. www.schirn-kunsthalle.de Palacio de Cristal Huis Marseille- Dusseldorf March 17-May 31 Museum for photography art Geneva % 34-91-7741-000 Until May 30 “Matts Leiderstam—Seen From Here” photography www.museoreinasofia.es % 31-20-5318-989 presents installations by the Swedish “Humanity in War: Frontline Photogra- www.huismarseille.nl artist using projections and computer phy since 1860” presents war photog- animations examining work by land- raphy from the past 150 years, simul- Paris scape artist Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. taneously tracing the evolution of the art Basel “Gosse de Peintre—Beat Takeshi Ki- art Kunsthalle Dusseldorf International Committee of the Red March 20-May 24 Cross since its inception. tano” displays paintings and videos “Günther Förg” presents wall paintings alongside abstract objects and fan- and 21 large-format photographs by % 49-211-8996-243 Musee International de la Croix-Rouge www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de et du Croissant-Rouge tasy machines created by the Japa- the German artist.. nese comedian, actor and artist. Until July 25 Fondation Beyeler Fondation Cartier % 41-22-7489-525 Until April 5 Frankfurt pour l’art Contemporain www.micr.ch % 41-61-6459-700 music Until Sept. 12 www.beyeler.com “Eros Ramazzotti” brings Italy’s biggest % 33-1-4218-5650 pop star to venues and fans across Ger- London fondation.cartier.com Berlin many, performing his hits and material theater art from his 2009 album “Ali e Radici.” “The White Guard” presents a new Vienna “Berlin Transfer” shows contemporary March 13, Arena Nürnberger version of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Russian music paintings, photography, graphics and Versicherung, Nuremberg civil war play directed by Andrew Up- “Vienna Spring Festival 2010” is a installations by artists including Falk March 15, Festhalle, Frankfurt ton, starring Graham Butler, Pip Carter classical music festival featuring per- Haberkorn and Florian Merkel. March 17, Color Line Arena, Hamburg and Anthony Calf. formances by Artemis Quartett, Berlinische Galerie March 19, Koenig Pilsener Arena, National Theatre Louis Lortie, Quatuor Ebène and the Until May 24 Oberhausen March 15-June 15 Vienna Symphonic Orchestra. % 49-30-7890-2600 March 20, Lanxess, Cologne % 44-20-7452-3000 Wiener Konzerthaus www.berlinischegalerie.de More dates online at www.nationaltheatre.org.uk March 20-May 16 www.ramazzotti.com % 43-1-242 002 music art konzerthaus.at “Maerzmusik Festival 2010” is a con- art “Kingdom of Ife” features 109 out- temporary-music festival featuring “Uwe Lausen” showcases paintings standing pieces of brass, copper, stone Source: ArtBase Global Arts News works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Swiss and works on paper by the German and terracotta sculpture created dur- Service, WSJE research. Florian Merkel W16 Friday - Sunday, March 12 - 14, 2010 | WEEKEND JOURNAL Film:Wine: The The timeless best of appealChristmas of ‘Breathless’ drinking European Wine: The Web scent habits of Burgundy revealed v Books Bookshelf / By Michael J. Ybarra Contents 7 3 | Film 8-9 | Cover story Arts & Antiques 12 | Sport Passage to Nowhere In 1903, Roald Amundsen set trapped in ice for months, many stalled in Westminster Abbey in Reflecting on Godard’s Horseracing at Cheltenham off from Norway in a 47-ton fish- wrecked or abandoned, survivors 1875, with an epitaph by Tenny- Tefaf treasure trove ing ship with a crew of six and enduring incredible hardships in son: “Not here! The White North groundbreaking classic five years of provisions. Over the a frozen wasteland, others simply hath thy bones; and thou, / He- 14 | Top Picks next three years he managed to falling off the map. Two fine new roic sailor-soul, / Art passing on Old Masters roar back as safe bets do what explorers had been try- books trace the sad saga. An- thy happier voyage now / To- 4-5 | Food & Wine ing in vain to do for centuries: He thony Brandt, in “The Man Who wards no earthly pole.” Of Frank- found a path through the maze of Ate His Boots,” claims that, early lin’s quest, and those of others islands at the top of the world on, it was understood that the over the years, Mr. Brandt says The failed flight of ‘Das Rheingold’ that would connect the Atlantic passage would “never be of any that there is a tension “between Dining in Vegas’s City Center and Pacific oceans. Amundsen, practical use.” Still, the effort to the nobility and the folly of the who was just starting an explora- find it had the irresistible appeal enterprise that makes the story ‘Love Never Dies’ effects stun, tion career of a seem- so rich and has inspired so many Wine: Earthy Burgundy that would ingly impossi- efforts to tell it.” singing sags eventually The Man Who Ate His Boots ble task. In Both Mr. Brandt and Mr. Will- make him the By Anthony Brandt “Arctic Laby- iams do an able job of recounting 6 | Fashion first man to (Knopf, 441 pages, $28.95) rinth,” Glyn the search for the Northwest Pas- From Matisse to Malevich reach the Williams ob- sage. Mr. Williams, a professor of history at the University of Lon- South Pole, serves that Arctic Labyrinth don, offers the more comprehen- had found the the promised counts it is John Franklin—“the ditioners. Eventually the Scottish On Style: By Glyn Williams sive narrative—he describes the Collecting: Oceanic Art Northwest short cut be- man who ate his boots.” He made explorer John Rae learned from (Allen Lane, 440 pages, £25) a name for himself in 1819-22 by early history of the search as Passage. tween oceans Inuit hunters about two ships well as the role that fanciful car- Wearing the latest runway styles leading an expedition to explore Since then had a dream- that had become icebound, the tography played in making it diffi- the north coast of Canada. The 15 | Books seven differ- like allure crews trying to reach safety over- cult. Mr. Brandt, a journalist, fo- 7 | Luxury ent passages have been tra- but became “a nightmarish laby- trip turned into an epic battle for land, all dying from the cold or cuses more on John Franklin and versed. They shave about a quar- rinth in which ships and men dis- survival, with 11 out of 20 men starvation, the last survivors re- his doomed journey. dying. Lichen and leather boots ter of the mileage off the trans- appeared without trace, and sorting to cannibalism. Franklin Both writers note a final Ice-bound were the diet of the survivors. oceanic shipping routes that go would-be rescuers had to be res- became an imperial hero, an em- irony: Global warming is finally Hermès expands to yachts through the Panama Canal, but cued themselves.” In 1845, Franklin set off from blem of British rectitude, whose making the Northwest Passage a England with two ships, 129 men the window of navigation is so The quest was mostly a Brit- fate prefigured that of another po- year-round shipping route. Which 16 | Time Off and stores for three years. The narrow, because of ice, that the ish affair. An obsession, Mr. lar explorer, Robert Falcon Scott, in turn has prompted Canada to ships were last spotted in July in claim sovereignty over the water- t discovery of the Northwest Pas- Brandt calls it. As early as 1745, who died just after reaching the Baffin Bay (between Greenland way and any resources that sage has proved to be commer- Parliament offered a cash prize South Pole in January 1912. Our arts and and Canada). After three years might be found in the region. cially irrelevant—which makes for the crew finding the passage.

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