Fore more, visit our calendar. Left: Eagle by Bernard Langlais, ,ca. 1964, raw and painted wood, 96 x 48 x 3 inches, Colby College Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Bernard Langlais. Photo: Pixel Acuity. On view at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. July 19 to January 4, 2015. ALABAMA Montgomery Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: “Origins: The First Twenty-Five …
Crossing borders, ignoring boundaries
Originally published in March/April 2014 For the past few years, while much of the art world has been gnashing its teeth over the fate of the American Folk Art Museum’s former home in midtown Manhattan, the institution itself has continued to pursue its critical work of shaping the discourse in the field. Since decamping in 2011 from the soon-to-be-demolished Tod …
Couture at the Folk Art Museum
Among the many discussions that are not worth anyone’s time is the one about whether fashion should be considered art or not. When the American Folk Art Museum asked thirteen designers to create something based on an object in its collections, the idea was not to prove that, hey, designers are artists too, nor was it to rescue folk art …
Exhibition openings
December 18 “Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Collection of Cheyre R. and James F. Pierce”; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI “The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925”; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY December 20 “‘Workt by Hand’: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts”; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Bars quilt, circa 1890, Pennsylvania. …
Exhibition openings in December
Shows across the country featuring photography, painting, sculpture, textiles, and more Camille Pissarro, Piette’s House at Montfoucault, 1874, oil on canvas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Image © The Clark. On view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, beginning December 22. December 6 “Steichen in the 1920s and 1930s: A Recent Acquisition”; Whitney Museum of …
Take care of this house: The Stanton-Davis homestead, 1670
Here in this shell of a house, This house that is struggling to be, Hope must have been The first to move in, And waited to welcome me. But hope isn’t easy to see. This lovely tribute to the White House in Leonard Bernstein and Allan Jay Lerner’s 1976 musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would make a perfect anthem for …
Four Seasons at Shelburne
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, July/August 2013 | IN HER FIRST ANNUAL REPORT, in 1948, Electra Havemeyer Webb, founder of Shelburne Museum, expressed her desire for “a building or adequate space in one for educational programs and loaned exhibits.” The new Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, which will hold exhibitions, lectures, films, concerts, and workshops, even during the challenging months …
July 2013 exhibition openings
July 20 “Beyond the Great Wave: Hokusai’s Images of Mount Fuji”; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Oscar Niemeyer”; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL July 23 “The Poetry of Paper”; J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA July 24 “Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt”; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY July 27 “Piecing Together History: Civil Rights Quilts by Yvonne …
The game is a foot
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, July/August 2013. In this Connecticut household, the game’s the thing. Behind the front door of the large stately house lies an unexpected and dazzling world of color and geometry. Displayed throughout the interior and arranged from floor to ceiling are almost 250 hand¬made game boards of various types, sizes, and patterns. But the promise of hours …
Editor’s letter, May/June 2013
Our cover shows an early and uncharacteristically jaunty painting by George Ault, part of the Lunder Collection featured in the article about the Colby College Museum of Art. Elsewhere in the issue an example of Ault’s later, more hard-boiled style can be seen in Marica and Jan Vilcek’s collection of early American modernism. Ault was by most accounts an impossible …