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Archive for September, 2008
Margot Bergman
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Chicago, Margot Bergman, Painting on September 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Danto talks in Arkansas today (Sunday 9/28)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arkansas, Arthur Danto, Crystal Bridges Museum on September 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The folks working for the future NW Arkansas museum, Crystal Bridges, have brought art critic/philosopher Arthur C. Danto to town for a speaking engagement. Crystal Bridges was founded by Alice Walton and is to open in 2010. You may have heard about some of the museum’s more notorious purchases and almost-purchases.
Some links, not totally fresh, not totally Midwestern…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Links on September 28, 2008 | 9 Comments »
-”After the show is over…it gets taken away with a shovel.” Today’s NY Times has a good article on sculptor Tara Donovan. (The one true C-Monster has a link straight to the slideshow.)
-”These paintings are slippery, full of illusions and both contain and inspire free association.” Cathy Quinlan’s review of the current Judy Glantzman show [...]
Anne Harris
Posted in Painting, tagged Anne Harris, Art, Chicago IL, Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, Drawing, Painting on September 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Anne Harris
HUB in Bloomington
Posted in Not Painting, tagged Bloomington, Indiana, Installation Art, IU, School of Fine Art Gallery, Sculpture on September 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University is putting on a two-part exhibition this fall. From SoFA’s description:
HUB is a unique exhibition project developed by Derek Parker, Jonathan Dankenbring, and LaRinda Meinburg, MFA students in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts in collaboration with Betsy Stirratt, Director and Rob Off, Associate [...]
Grant W. Ray
Posted in Not Painting, tagged Art, Chicago IL, Grant W. Ray, Photography on September 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Grant W. Ray
Gaspare Traversi at the Nelson-Atkins
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Gaspare Traversi, Italian Painting, Kansas City MO, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Painting on September 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The Drawing Lesson
The Music Lesson
A couple of longtime favorites from the Nelson-Atkins. More on Traversi at Wikipedia.
Neutron Bombs Away! (Jose Manuel Ballester)
Posted in Painting, tagged bosch, Jose Manuel Ballester, neutron bomb landscape, Painting on September 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jose Manuel Ballester
This may be the definitive post on perhaps the most abhorred reoccurring Bloomington-bred topic on MWC: The Neutron Bomb Painting.
Got the good link via Boing Boing.
RIP David Foster Wallace
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know this is a painting blog, but I guess that most of the regular readers have read something by David Foster Wallace, who recently died, apparently by suicide.
Jennifer Coates
Posted in Painting, tagged Hunter, Jennifer Coates, New York on September 15, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Jennifer Coates
Heard about this lady via this blog.
