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Check out what art is all about. Tyler Green talks about, well, art of course but also museums.
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Reading Ovid with Ellsworth and Jerome

Sep 1, 2009
There is something a little bit intimidating about reading aloud one of the greatest works of classical mythology to a Tadao Ando-designed room of St. Louisans, plenty of whom are following along...

Acquisition: Fred Sandback at the NGA

Aug 13, 2009
The National Gallery of Art has acquired its first Fred Sandback sculpture, Untitled (Grey Corner Construction of 1968. It is on view in the NGA's East Building. The NGA has been on a minimalism...

'Uncle Rudi' and quiet confrontation

Aug 11, 2009
Artists ask the bravest, toughest questions. Because artists want their questions heard and considered, typically they've asked them with equally big, direct, look-what-happened-here! canvases: Goya asked if the French army acted appropriately on the...

Bruce Nauman, 'Double Steel Cage Piece'

Jul 14, 2009
"I woke up, naked, strapped to a bed, in a very white room. The room measured approximately 4m x 4m. The room had three solid walls, with the fourth wall consisting of metal bars separating it from a larger room. I am not sure how long I remaine...

Acquisition: Paul Cadmus at Toledo

May 19, 2009
In 1931 Paul Cadmus, 26, made this painting of his lover Jared French. The painting, Jerry, remained in the French family until recently, when it was acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art. The...

'Burtynsky: Oil' and its most unusual catalogue

Nov 24, 2009
For years Edward Burtynsky has claimed he is not a particularly political artist. He can no longer make that claim: The Corcoran/Steidl catalogue for 'Edward Burtynsky: Oil' is the most immediately political museum catalogue I've seen. It is a...

Edward Burtynsky's 'Oil' at the Corcoran, part two

Nov 23, 2009
Edward Burtynsky's photographs about our reliance on oil (on view now at the Corcoran) include a kind of trap. The pictures are beautiful. A Burtynsky picture of the landscape near extraction facility outside Fort McMurray, Alberta, looks like a...

Weekend roundup

Nov 23, 2009
Kenneth Baker looks at Gorky in Philly and in so doing explains why I almost never write about a show I haven't seen under 'normal' or 'typical' circumstances.Ken Johnson is excited that Tim Burton's films are being screened at MoMA but is befuddled by...

Back Monday

Nov 20, 2009
I'm taking a Friday off. I'll have two more posts on Edward Burtynsky next week, plus I'll kick off our 2009 DonorsChoose.org drive. (Last year you gave $3,000 to help provide art education to 1,300 students!)

Adams, Nixon... and a new Eastman House project

Nov 19, 2009
In 2006 I wrote a post detailing some acquisitions at SFMOMA. Among the SFMOMA curators with whom I spoke was Sandra Phillips, who heads up the museum's photography department. She told me this story. I've tried to interest magazines in it for years...


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