Michel Houellebecq’s Cynicism Persists in His Photographs

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 31, 2017July 3, 2018 Art

Click Here to Read: Michel Houellebecq’s Cynicism Persists in His Photographs: For his US gallery debut, Michel Houellebecq presents an exhibition which amounts to a theory attempting to explain the dysfunction of French society by Michael Valinsky July 27, 2017.

Fernand Léger and the Rise of the Man-Machine

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 25, 2017July 3, 2018 Art

Click Here to Read: Fernand Léger and the Rise of the Man-Machine: A major retrospective of the French artist’s work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life by Joseph Nechvatal on the HyperAllergic website on July 23, 2017.

NEA, NEH, and Smithsonian Would Lose Millions in Funding in House Appropriations Committee Bill

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 20, 2017July 3, 2018 Art, General News

Click Here to Read: NEA, NEH, and Smithsonian Would Lose Millions in Funding in House Appropriations Committee Bill
The Committee’s Interior and Environment Appropriations bill now goes before the Senate, where a final federal budget for 2018 will be hammered out in the coming months by Benjamin Sutton on the HyperAllergic Website on July 18, 2017.

The Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum Season II video

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 19, 2017July 3, 2018 Art, Audio/Video

We invite you to view a video of selected highlights from the 2016-2017 season’s exhibits in the Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum.

Click http://tinyurl.com/ya7epoye to see the video.

We hope that these artistic displays of music, art, and photography applied to our field will whet your appetite and lead you to explore the entire museum online. Click http://virtualpsychoanalyticmuseum.org to enter the museum and explore on your own.

Our museum team is very grateful to work with such wonderful guest curators, presenters and artists, which in this season include: guest curators Jane S. Hall and Beth Reese, presenter Maxine Nelson, and artists Ittai Shapira, Shahid Najeeb, Terrance McLarnan, and Kamila Ženatá.

Enjoy!

Nancy Goodman, Museum Director

Batya Monder, Marilyn Meyers, and Paula Ellman, Curators

Arnold Richards, Publisher (IPbooks)

Devra Hall Levy, Producer/Webmaster

The Playful, Feminist Sculptures of a Member of the Peruvian Avant-Garde

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 19, 2017July 3, 2018 Art

Click Here to Read: The Playful, Feminist Sculptures of a Member of the Peruvian Avant-Garde: Teresa Burga’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States focuses on her contributions to the Peruvian avant-garde and questioning of art-world hierarchies by
Julia Friedman on the HyperAllergic website on July 17, 2017.

Duchamp’s Spinning Optical Experiments

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 17, 2017July 3, 2018 Art

Click Here to Read: Duchamp’s Spinning Optical Experiments by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic Website on September 26, 2016

Marcel Duchamp, “Rotorelief No. 5 – Poisson Japonais” (recto) (GIF via televandelist.com)

Helen Frankenthaler’s Panoramas of Paint:

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 16, 2017July 3, 2018 Art

Click Here to Read: Helen Frankenthaler’s Panoramas of Paint: Dual retrospectives of paintings and woodcuts underscore Frankenthaler’s restless experimentation in image and materials by Thomas Micchelli on the HyperAllergic Website on July 14, 2017.

Encounter Han Dynasty Treasures at the China Institute

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 12, 2017July 3, 2018 Art, China

Click Here to Read: Encounter Han Dynasty Treasures at the China Institute: Dreams of the Kings: A Jade Suit for Eternity, Treasures of the Han Dynasty from Xuzhou presents an array of artifacts originating from royal tombs dating from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 8 CE) by China Institute on the HyperAllergic website on July 11. 2017.

The Novelty and Excess of American Design During the Jazz Age

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 12, 2017July 3, 2018 Art

Click Here to Read: The Novelty and Excess of American Design During the Jazz Age: Through over 400 objects, the Cooper Hewitt’s dynamic Jazz Age exhibition highlights 1920s American design by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergiv website on July 9, 2017.

Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron Turn Surveillance into a Gimmick

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 10, 2017July 3, 2018 Art

Click Here to Read: Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron Turn Surveillance into a Gimmick: Their new installation at the Park Avenue Armory features drones and facial-recognition technology, yet seems to have no politics at all by Jillian Steinhauer in the HyperAllergic website on Julyh6, 2017.