Click Here to Read: What Prehistoric Cave Paintings Can Teach Us About the Psychology of Creativity by Nicola Brown on the Sky Word website on September 11, 2017.
Category: Art
The Print Legacy of Louise Bourgeois Unfolds at MoMA
Click Here to Read: The Print Legacy of Louise Bourgeois Unfolds at MoMA: A new exhibition gathers some 300 works, including 265 prints, to show the increasingly central role printmaking played in Bourgeois’s practice through the decades by Benjamin Sutton on the HyperAllergic website on September 19, 2017.
From the KKK to Darfur, Reflecting on Evil as a Deliberate Ac
Click Here to Read: From the KKK to Darfur, Reflecting on Evil as a Deliberate Act: Evil: A Matter of Intent at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU features works from 1940 to the present, with each addressing evil in its various incarnations by Monica Uszerowicz on the HyperAllergic website on September 17, 2017.
Evil: A Matter of Intent at Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, installation view (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)
An Exhibition About Revolution that Keeps Faith with Ringgold
Click Here to Read: An Exhibition About Revolution that Keeps Faith with Ringgold: It is a great irony that the Faith Ringgold’s first public commission was effectively imprisoned for over 40 years, but this situation raises valuable questions regarding our notions of the public and how that public is served.
by Ramsay Kolber on the HyperAllergic website on September 14, 2017.
Faith Ringgold, “For the Women’s House” (1971) oil on canvas, 96 x 96 (243.8 x 243.8 cm) (courtesy of Rose M. Singer Center, Rikers Island Correctional Center 2017 © Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
Unique Egyptian Gilded Coffin Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum
The Passion and Pain of Carol Rama
The Portraiture of Paul Cézanne
A Retrospective of Andrew Wyeth, a Painter Both Loved and Loathed
Click Here to Read: A Retrospective of Andrew Wyeth, a Painter Both Loved and Loathed: In Chadds Ford, at the Brandywine River Museum, a comprehensive exhibition on Andrew Wyeth has the potential to inspire or disgust, weary or delight by Rob Colvin on the HyperAllergic website on September 4, 2017.
Enlightenment-Era Teaching Cabinet
Click Here to Read: Enlightenment-Era Teaching Cabinet: The small chamber was at the heart of intellectual life in New England from 1766 to 1820, and then it all but disappeared by Mary Louise Schumacher on the HyperAllergic website on August 31, 2017.
Installation view of the loosely reconstructed Philosophy Chamber, with large portraits by John Singleton Copley and bird specimens prepared by Charles Willson Peale. The red wallpaper is inspired by a fragment of the original wallpaper donated to the chamber by John Hancock, c. 1772. On view in the The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 at the Harvard Art Museums (photo by Katya Kallsen, © President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Tracing the Lives of Women in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations
Click Here to Read: Tracing the Lives of Women in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations: Illuminating Women in the Medieval World at the Getty Center in Los Angeles explores the lives of women in the Middle Ages through their representation in illuminated manuscripts by Allison Meier on the HyperAlleric website on August 28, 2017.