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Global News
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- Climate
- Global News
Active fire season expected to bring more smoky skies across Manitoba
Eastern Manitoba is under an air quality warning due to smoke from the nearby wildfires, and smoke from blazes in Saskatchewan is being blown over northern Manitoba. It's early in the wildfire season, but Environment Canada meteorologist Natalie Hasell says conditions are only going to get worse. 'Based on our current forecasts, it would not surprise me if things remain difficult,' says Hasell. 'That the season is going to be pretty active looks pretty sure at this point.' Hasell says the wildfire risk will stay high throughout the summer, and increase across the prairies in August. Ryan Ness, director of adaptation research at the Canadian Climate Institute, says climate change has made active fire seasons and smoky skies the norm for our summers. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'We're seeing those warmer, dryer winters,' says Ness. 'We're seeing less precipitation during the warmer seasons, we're seeing more lightning and thunderstorms even with the changing and warming climate.' Story continues below advertisement Seniors, young children, pregnant people, and people with heart or lung conditions are most susceptible to health complications due to wildfire smoke. They are advised to avoid strenuous activity outdoors when the air quality is poor. But Juliette Mucha, president and CEO of the Manitoba Lung Association, says even if you're healthy, the effects of smoke can catch up with you. 'You may not feel it now, or you may just have a little cough right now. But later on, years to come, days, weeks, that's where we can see the damage,' says Mucha. Mucha says breathing the fine particles in wildfire smoke can do damage equivalent to smoking several cigarettes. She advises keeping the air inside your home as clear as possible. 'Close your windows, and if you're able to, put your A/C on. If you have a fresh air intake, make sure that is off, recirculating just interior air.' She advises people who don't have air conditioning to go to a library or other public space that does. For those who do need to go outside in heavy smoke, an N-95 mask can filter out some of the harmful particles.
Associated Press
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Mucha Museum Unveils New Era at Historic Kaunický palác, Prague
PRAGUE, CZ / ACCESS Newswire / May 3, 2025 / The iconic Mucha Museum is proud to announce in the historic building of the Kaunický palác, Prague, has moved & reopened in its new grand venue in the Kaunický palác, Prague offering a transformation in payed of history of the celebration of Alfons Mucha, one of the most influential of the Art Nouveau artists and a symbol of national identity to the Czech people. Originally opened to the public in 1998, the museum is the first in the world entirely dedicated to the works of the much-acclaimed Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha - the collection includes everything from canvases to photographs, illustrations, designs, living, invocative documents, and much more. Citizens of Prague are very proud of this museum, formerly housed in a small and quaint setting, now in its new and very impressive home, which offers a dramatically expanded and re-imagined experience. 'This new home for the Mucha Museum at Kaunický palác, Prague, is more than a move - it is a bold redefinition of how we present Mucha's legacy to future generations,' said a museum spokesperson. 'It reflects the scale and spirit of the man whose work shaped not only an artistic era but a national identity.' Located in the center of Prague, the Kaunický palác offers a graceful and historic backdrop for the appreciation of Mucha's visionary work. Now, visitors can explore all new galleries with original works of art, personal artifacts, archival material, and engaging interactive exhibits showing the artist and the world he inhabited. New Museum Experience Highlights: Alfons Mucha (1860-1939) is known for his masterful art nouveau iconic poster designs that capture the essence of beauty advertising products - it's probably some of the most exquisite examples of advertising art ever seen. His paintings were an expression of culture and national pride, as well as a medium of political sentiment; nowhere is this more apparent than in The Slav Epic, a collection of large canvases that document the spiritual development of the Slav race. With the introduction of this beautiful setting within the confines of the Kaunický palác, Prague, visitors will be able to experience Mucha's work with greater intimacy and depth, and also experience the city of Prague through the eyes of an artist who helped give it a soul. About Mucha Museum - is the official online platform for the Alfons Mucha Museum and legacy. It offers access to exhibition details, tickets, digital archives, curated content, and exclusive merchandise, serving as the definitive source for Mucha enthusiasts worldwide. Media Contact Organisation: Muchovo muzeum s.r.o. Contact Person: Daniel Tanner Website: [email protected] SOURCE: Muchovo muzeum press release
Wall Street Journal
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line' Review: Free-Flowing Style at the Phillips Collection
Washington On Christmas Eve 1894, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), a Czech junior designer working alone in a Parisian print shop, received a rush order from actress Sarah Bernhardt for a poster advertising her title role in the Greek-set melodrama 'Gismonda.' Mucha—inspired, he said, by Bernhardt's flowing gestures, the 'magic of her movements . . . a spiral principle'—set to work. Fusing Eastern and Greco-Roman influences, Mucha's life-size decorative portrait-poster—illustrated with golden mosaics, sinuous arabesques, flora and fauna—idealized and eroticized Bernhardt as a neoclassical goddess and Byzantine icon.
Washington Post
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
The turbulent beauty of art nouveau is still all over culture
There is no train in 'Monaco • Monte-Carlo.' The railway ad instead pictures a woman, poised at the shore's edge. Encircled in rings of carmine- and blush-tinged blossoms, she looks up, hands held in wonder, her lips cherry red. Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a satin skirt, in the stirring of plans unformed. This is not the world as it is, but as it could be. Mucha, the subject of a Phillips Collection survey, was a student of the world. As a child in Moravia, in the present-day Czech Republic, he spent his days poring over 'flowers, the neighbours' dogs and horses,' noting every curve and flourish, as he wrote years later. 'I tried not only to depict them, but also to preserve them.' Mucha's sketches are nimble, some ecstatic. One, of a man at rest in a high-backed chair, is impossibly fluid, his coiled mustache and tousled hair a flurry of razor-sharp slashes. His pastel 'Holy Night' is a furious study of cornflower and powder blues, veiled by a web of tissue-paper-thin streaks. Mucha examined life closely, intensely. He was, artist Charles Matlack Price observed, 'the most perfect and painstaking draftsman.' Mucha was a close observer of the world, drawing out the strange and fantastical. Art should project 'moral harmonies,' he professed; it should 'know how to charm.' In his pictures, he didn't bother with facial details. More interesting to him was capturing the movement, the verve of his subjects, suffusing them with luster. In one picture, he swapped out an actress's short, red curls for cascading blond tresses; in another, he elongated a model's fingers, coiling them around a fluted bouquet. His work is all affect, made 'to glorify beauty,' he said, to awaken the soul. This movement — the sweeping lines, rich patterning and swirling ornamentation — became an instantly recognizable element of art nouveau, the style Mucha helped lead to lasting popularity through 20th-century commercial art, global comics and counterculture. As an illustrator in fin de siècle Paris, Mucha saw his images reach wide audiences, especially images featuring the beloved French actress Sarah Bernhardt. His theater posters are wide awake. In one, for the Alexandre Dumas play 'The Lady of the Camellias,' he set Bernhardt against a violet ground, dappled with pearl-gray stars. As the title courtesan, she is forced to give up her lover, her death all but inevitable. She turns away, enveloped in cream-colored blooms. In 'Lorenzaccio,' Bernhardt is still more withdrawn. Draped in billowing opals, she is Lorenzo de' Medici, who kills the tyrant of Florence. Bernhardt here is steely, lost in thought before a gilded archway, a mint-green dragon snaked about her. Each captures what Mucha called the 'particular magic of her movements,' Bernhardt's sinuous lines and chilly, spellbinding gaze. There's much to gaze at in Mucha's pictures. Take 'Zodiac,' a woman in profile, glittering in syrupy crimson, teal and eggshell, her hair a spiral of copper. (Mucha was especially fond of redheads, writing in a 1908 article, 'A man admires a red-haired woman for the same reason that he papers the walls of his bachelor apartment red … because red is his favorite color.') He was unguarded, his work brimming with periwinkle-blue diadems and whirling arabesques, his studio overgrown with rococo tables and grand palms. The effect is thrilling, if slightly manic. He once lamented, 'I never had time to finish the work.' That energy carried over to Mucha's classroom. He was an in-demand teacher and charmer, earning 'a reputation as a kind of joker,' a student recalled. 'We had a circus.' His philosophy was simple: Art should stir the viewer, inviting them to a higher plane. The idea recurs in the show in a French-blue Grateful Dead cover — of a skeleton, crowned with bloodred rosettes — and a Pink Floyd print — of a castle floating through a scarlet- and yellow-soaked sky — the pictures at once conjuring and falling short of the Czech master. Mucha saw his work as a reprieve. People 'needed to breathe fresh air,' he maintained, 'to quench their thirst for beauty.' That splendor, edged in Mucha's prints with sumptuous brocades and rubies, may be what's missing from some of his many followers. As one pupil said, 'There are few who have been on this Earth like Mucha.' Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St., NW. 202-387-2151. Dates: Through May 18. Prices: $20; $15 for seniors; $12 for military personnel; $10 for students and teachers; free for members and visitors 18 and under. Admission is pay-what-you-wish daily from 4 p.m. to closing. On the third Thursday of the month, the museum stays open until 8 p.m. and admission is free after 4 p.m.
