Tag Archives: Henri Matisse

Dead Blogging ‘Fabricating Modernism’ at the Currier Museum

Posted on November 21, 2023 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Granite State over the weekend to check out the newly installed exhibits at Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art and say, they were swell. We started at Fabricating Modernism: Prints from the … Continue reading →

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Dead Blogging ‘Paul Cézanne: Influence’ at Boston’s MFA

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled over to The Fenway the other day to wander around the Museum of Fine Arts (reservations required) and say, it was swell just to be back there after a year of staying away. Also … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A-One, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Cézanne: In and Out of Time, Charles Sheeler, Collecting Stories: The Invention of Folk Art, ERO, Fab 5 Freddy, Fernande Olivier, Futura, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kool Koor, LA2, Lady Pink, Landscape, Lee Quiñones, Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair, MFA, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne: Influence, Rammellzee, Toxic, Vue sur L'Estaque et Le Château d'If, William H. Johnson, Woman with a Pink Shawl, Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation | 2 Comments

The Arts (Not) Seen in NYC (Félix Fénéon at MoMA Edition)

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Campaign Outsider

In a world without coronavirus, the Missus and I would be trundling down to the Big Town in the next week or two to go a-museuming. And one of the places we’d certainly have gone is the newly reopened Museum … Continue reading →

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The Arts Seen in NYC (Pierre Cardin Is Totally Brilliant Edition)

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to spend some time a-museuming and say, it was swell. After navigating the usual midtown Manhattan mishegas to get to our usual hotel, we took the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Albrecht Dürer, Andrew Carnegie, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story, Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall, Berthe Morisot, Brooklyn Museum, Cai Guo-Qiang, Carrie Mae Weems, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Elizabeth Cleland, Francisco Goya, Franz Kline, From Expressionism to Surrealism: Highlights of Modern Art from the Collection, Garry Winogrand: Color, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Guggenheim Museum, Henri Matisse, James McNeill Whistler, Jenny Holzer, Jewelry for America, Joan Miro, Joseph Beuys, Julie Mehretu, Käthe Kollwitz, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, Max Ernst, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, New York Times, Non-Brand, Pablo Picasso, Paul Chan, Peter Plagens, Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion, Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance, Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper, Richard Prince, Roberta Smith, Sport and Leisure: Sailing on the Sound, The Bauhaus Spirit at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Vasily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh, Wadsworth Atheneum, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

NYT’s ‘New York City Haiku’ Has Nothing on Félix Fénéon

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

A few months ago the New York Times ran a New York City in 17 Syllables contest, soliciting haikus (three lines of five, seven and five syllables) about the Big Town. For National Poetry Month, The New York Times asked … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Colette, Félix Fénéon, French War Office, Georges Seurat, haiku contest, Henri Matisse, Huysmans, James Joyce, Julian Barnes, Laforgue, Le Matin, Les Illuminations, London Review of Books, Luc Sante, Mallermé, National Poetry Month, New York City Haiku, New York in 17 Syllables, New York Review of Books, New York Times, Northanger Abbey, Novels in Three Lines, Revue Blanche, Rimbaud, Times Haiku, Verlaine | 1 Comment

Dead Blogging ‘Alfred Maurer’ at Addison Gallery

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover yesterday to catch Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism at the Addison Gallery of American Art and, say, it was swell. Maurer was an early 20th Century artist who morphed from … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Addison Gallery of American Art, Alfred Maurer, Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism, Boston Globe, cubism, fauvism, Henri Matisse, impressionism, Light/Dark White/Black, On the Scene: 20th Century Street Photography, Searching for the Real, Sebastian Smee | 2 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Picasso to Warhol’ at Lowell Textile Museum

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Lowell over the weekend to catch Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol at the American Textile History Museum and, say, it was swell. From their website: The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Textile History Museum, Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol, Claire McCardell, Henri Matisse, Jared Bowen, Open Studio, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, WGBH | 2 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Circus’ at RISD Museum

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to Providence yesterday to catch Circus at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and, say, it was swell. For starters, there was the exhibit itself. The spectacle of the American and European … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Calder, Alison Chang, August Lehrecke, Chifferobe Events, Circus, Design the Night, Dizzy the Clown, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot, Kristen Minsky, Kylie Why, Marc Chagall, Matthew Muller, Max Beckmann, Paul Carpentier, Pneuhaus, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, The TropiGals | 6 Comments

NYT ‘First Crush’ Series Crashes

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Okay – this has happened to the hardworking staff and the Missus once too often. We looked at yesterday’s New York Times front page and here’s what we saw: That lede – “I’ve been writing about art professionally for more … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alessandra Stanley, Critic's Notebook, Emily Dickinson, First Crush, Henri Matisse, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Holland Cotter, New York Times | 2 Comments

Travels With The Missus On The Côte d’Azur

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled over to the French Riviera for our 30th wedding anniversary (and to walk in the footsteps of Alicia Markova in advance of the Missus’ forthcoming book), and here’s how it went . . . … Continue reading →

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