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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...

Kandinsky at the Guggenheim, part three

Dec 14, 2009
Continuing Kandinsky at the Guggenheim. Here's part one and part two... As mentioned here, in 1907 Vasily Kandinsky moved to Paris. By the next year his paintings had changed: His compositions became more sophisticated, his brushwork more au courant,...

Weekend roundup

Dec 14, 2009
Gabriel Orozco is everywhere this weekend: Hemispheres' Aaron Gell on the crazy tourist; Deborah Sontag in the NYT.Big weekend for Anne Truitt reviews: Ken Johnson in the NYT and Lance Esplund in the WSJ.In the LAT, Suzanne Muchnic reports that the...

Disney markets at NOMA: A major museum error

Dec 11, 2009
The American Association of Museums' code of ethics says that member museums must ensure that "programs are founded on scholarship and marked by intellectual integrity." Yesterday, in a Q&A here on MAN, New Orleans Museum of Art director E. John...

Disney at NOMA?: A Q&A with director E. John Bullard

Dec 10, 2009
This weekend a new animated Disney film, "The Princess and the Frog," opens in movie theaters. The film is set in New Orleans. Not coincidentally, a new exhibit just opened at the New Orleans Museum of Art: Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy...

The NGA East Building's cladding problem

Dec 9, 2009
Catesby Leigh has a must-read piece in the WSJ about the $85 million cladding problem at the National Gallery of Art. Related: From MAN, the NGA's East Building reconsidered, part one, part two.




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