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Wadsworth Honored with Preservation Award

May 29, 2012   admin   No comments

Wadsworth AtheneumThe Wadsworth Atheneum was recently named a 2012 Award Winner for Renovation & Restoration by the Hartford Preservation Alliance in recognition of the importance of the museum’s historic buildings and its unparalleled collection. The first public art museum in the United States, the Wadsworth is comprised of five buildings built over the course of 125 years, which include striking examples of Gothic, Tudor, Renaissance Revival and Modernist architecture. The award honors the first phase of the museum’s ongoing $16 million renovation project. The entire renovation project is slated for completion in 2014.

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Drawings of Plants Opens In June at Met

May 24, 2012   admin   No comments
Ellsworth Kelly Sunflower, 1957 ©Ellsworth Kelly, Provided by Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of the foremost artists of our day, Ellsworth Kelly may be best known for his rigorous abstract painting. However, Kelly has made figurative drawings throughout his career, and has created an extraordinary body of work that now spans six decades. Opening next month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major exhibit to focus exclusively on Kelly’s drawings of plants.

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Jubilation/Rumination at Folk Art Museum Runs thru Sept 2

May 22, 2012   admin   No comments
American Folk Art Museum Dottre

An exhibition that began during Americana Week in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the American Folk Art Museum runs through September 2nd.

Jubilation/Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined was conceived and organized by the Museum’s senior curator, Stacy C. Hollander who has been instrumental in shaping the museum’s collection. The groupings of these disparate works of art in the exhibition trace evocative, visual relationships that weave between the past and the present.

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Folk Art Becomes Focus at DAR Museum in DC

May 22, 2012   admin   No comments
gallery chairs DAR Musuem

The DAR Museum’s first-ever exhibition devoted entirely to folk art showcases a facet of the collection that evolved largely by accident.

Officials say the DAR Museum was never intended to be a repository for folk art, but over time, as DAR members donated family heirlooms to the collection and the popularity of American folk art increased, a varied selection of folk art objects came to be represented among the museum’s holdings. “By, For, and Of the People: Folk Art and Americana at the DAR Museum,” on display October 7 through September 1, 2012, illustrates the talent and imagination of those who turned everyday objects into works of art.

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Dallas in the 50s, George Grosz at the DMA

May 21, 2012   Lin   No comments
Self Portrait, 1936 George Grosz, German Oil on canvas Overall: 30 3/8 x 28 1/8 in. (77.17 x 71.45 cm) Dallas Museum of Art, gift of A. Harris and Company in memory of Leon A. Harris, Sr. © Estate of George Grosz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

George Grosz did it for the money, but the result is a stunning array of images of this city at a pivotal pint in its history.

The current exhibition George Grosz’s Flower of the Prairie at the Dallas Museum of Art centers at four oil paintings and seventeen watercolors Grosz fled Germany at the onset of the rise of Hitler, leaving behind his satirical political illustrations of roaring twenties, for which he is best known for.

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