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Dead Blogging ‘Learning to Look: The Addison at 90’
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover the other day to wander around the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy (free, but reservations required) and say, it was swell to be back at that gem of … Continue reading
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Tagged Addison Gallery of American Art, Agnes Martin, Arthur Dove, Black Trunk, Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, David Nolan Gallery, Donald Judd, Franz Kline, Georgia O'Keeffe, I James McNeill Whistler: A Novel, Jackson Pollock, Jacob Lawrence, Jasper Johns, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, McArthur Binion, Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things, Nemo, Phillips Academy, Thomas Cochran, Thomas Eakins, Treasures of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Trunk Drawing, Winslow Homer
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Dead Blogging ‘Harlem: In Situ’ at Andover’s Addison Gallery
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Andover the other day to catch the current exhibitions at the Addison Gallery of American Art and, say, they were uniformly swell. Don’t let the “gallery” designation fool you – the Addison … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s–1950s (Harlem), 4 x 4, Aaron Siskind, Addison Gallery of American Art, Beaumont Newhall, Carl van Vechten, Chase National Bank, Dr. Walter O. Evans, Elie Nadelman, Harlem Document (1935), Harlem Heroes, Harlem Heroes (1930–1960), Harlem: In Situ, In and Out of Place, Jacob Lawrence, John Goodman: not recent color, Kissing the Moon, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucien Aigner, Paul Robeson, Romare Bearden, Roy DeCarava., Seated Woman, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1984), Twisted Planes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Winslow Homer
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Dead Blogging ‘Leap Before You Look’ at the ICA
Well the Missus and I trundled downtown yesterday to catch Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art and say, it was . . . actually accessible. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not really smart … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Reed, Anni Albers, Asheville, Black Mountain College, Boston Globe, Buckminster Fuller, Carol Kino, Charles Olson, Elaine de Kooning, Gwendolyn Lawrence, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Jacob Lawrence, John Cage, Josef Albers, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Merce Cunningham, Robert Creeley, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Ruth Asawa, Sebastian Smee, Wall Street Journal, Watchmaker, Willem de Kooning
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Another MFA Sell-Off ‘For the Benefit of the Collection’
As the hardworking staff has previously noted, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts periodically pawns some of its current holdings in order to acquire better stuff, as in the Great Degas Swap of 2003. Something similar happened last year when the MFA sold … Continue reading