7 March 2006 | Contemporary, Museums
Savannah’s Telfair Museum of Art, due to unveil its new Moshe Safdie-designed building this Friday, will also feature “a permanent group of 20 works on paper [donated] by well-known artists who knew the late Varnedoe, a Savannah native and art historian who for 14 years curated painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art [...]
2 March 2006 | Contemporary, Museums, News
Contributor Anne Byrd writes: “Politics are especially prominent at this year’s Whitney Biennial: the first work that visitors see is Rirkrit Tiravanija’s and Mark di Suvero’s Peace Tower, clad in antiwar paintings. Explicitly political works inside the museum include Richard Serra’s “Stop Bush” poster and video documentations of Steve Kurtz’s interventions. Several artists address racial [...]
2 March 2006 | Museums
The Art Newspaper has synopsized and printed excerpts from William Rubin’s unpublished memoir, A Curator’s Quest: “Barr appointed him curator of the department of painting and sculpture. ‘I was walking on air,’ Rubin writes. But William Lieberman, who had joined the museum as Barr’s assistant in 1945 and became a curator in 1953, was less [...]
1 March 2006 | Museums
When many people think of the late William Rubin, they think of the landmark exhibitions he organized for MoMA, but in the latest Art in America Pepe Karmel argues that “His most lasting achievement was the upgrading and expansion of the museum’s permanent collection … he was ruthlessly ready to sell or trade work from [...]
28 February 2006 | Ancient, Museums
From today’s New York Times, Philippe de Montebello on the Euphronios Krater: “How much more would you learn from knowing which particular hole in — supposedly Cerveteri — it came out of? … Everything is on the vase.” On illicit antiquities: “The truth is — unattractive as it may be — the black market, to [...]
17 February 2006 | Modern, Museums
Kenneth Silver and Carol Ockman said that they felt “inhabited by Bernhardt” when they assembled the exhibition “Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama” for The Jewish Museum, contributor Ross Finocchio reports. They spoke last night at NYU’s Maison Française, drawing laughs as they excitedly described Bernhardt (1844–1923) as a deft manipulator of her own [...]
17 February 2006 | Modern, Museums
“Aix’s role has often been dismissed … either ignored or reduced to the simplistic picture of a ‘self-taught’ Cézanne or the harsh diatribes of Zola, Paul Alexis, and Cézanne himself. Did Cézanne really not begin to live until he arrived in Paris in 1861?” writes Bruno Ely in the catalogue to the National Gallery’s Cézanne [...]
15 February 2006 | Museums, Photography
Sotheby’s New York is offering important photographs deaccessioned from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including works by Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz (including prints of “The Steerage” and “The Flat-Iron”), Walker Evans (“Tenant Farmer Wife: Allie Mae Burroughs”), and Margaret Bourke-White (“Gargoyle, Chrysler Building, New York”).
15 February 2006 | Museums
The January 2006 Burlington Magazine editorial: “As the senior staff in most museums concentrate their attention on planning new buildings and devising money-spinning loan exhibitions,” at MoMA for example, “the truly stimulating ideas will perhaps be found in the imaginative pragmatism of curators who are allowed to rearrange the permanent collections,” as happened recently at [...]
