Matta, Glimmer of Violence, 1958 from the permanent collection of the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. And here’s Let’s Phosphoresce by Intellection II, ca. 1950 from the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. Zoom in on the KC Matta here.
Archive for October, 2008
Matta at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum
Posted in Painting, tagged Kansas City, Matta, Nelson-Atkins Museum, St. Louis, Washington University on October 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
AAC: James T. Dyke Collection plus an Andy Warhol show
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AAC, Andy Warhol, Arkansas Arts Center, Art, Frank Auerbach, Jake Berthot, James McGarrell, Jerome Witkin, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Rackstraw Downes on October 28, 2008 | 9 Comments »
UA Fort Smith (where I work this year) went on an excursion today to see a really excellent sampling of James T. Dyke’s collection, which is chiefly work on paper. The show is at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock’s art museum. I think we’ve discussed elsewhere on the blog, the AAC is worth putting [...]
Steve Budington: Pioneers
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Painting, Steve Budington, Vermont on October 24, 2008 | 16 Comments »
un-blink/blink by Steve Budington from his solo exhibit, the Pioneers, October 27-November 14 2008, at the Colburn Gallery at the University of Vermont.
Ideal (Dis-)Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ideal (Dis-) Placements presents Old Master paintings borrowed from the St. Louis Art Museum and the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University in the Pulitzer Foundation’s amazing Tadao Ando-designed building. I(D)P gives viewers the chance to see these works in a decidedly contemporary space that may in some ways be more historically authentic. From the [...]
Anne Thompson images up at ANABA
Posted in Painting, tagged Links on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ANABA has posted some images from Anne Thompson’s exhibit at Hudson/Franklin Gallery in NYC. There’s even a shot that shows the special hanging device for those reversible paintings, something that Sam wondered about the last time we posted her work. Here is the link to the ANABA. Here is the link to our earlier post.
Ke-Sook Lee
Posted in Not Painting, tagged Art, Fiber Art, Kansas City MO, Ke-Sook Lee, Sculpture, Stitching on October 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Ke-Sook Lee
Logan Grider at Thierry Goldberg
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Lexington KY, Logan Grider, New York, Painting, Thierry Goldberg Gallery on October 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Logan Grider at Thierry Goldberg, October 17-November 16, 2008 (via)
Rackstraw Downes at Arkansas Arts Center
Posted in Painting, tagged Arkansas, Arkansas Arts Center, Drawing, Little Rock, Rackstraw Downes on October 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock recently acquired a Rackstraw Downes drawing, which is on view until December. Details here.
‘Slow Dancing’ in Fayetteville
Posted in Not Painting, tagged Arkansas, David Michalek, Fayetteville, Slow Dancing on October 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville is hosting ‘Slow Dancing’ (2007), a work by David Michalek. Michalek uses a military-grade super-slow motion camera to record dancers at 1000 frames per second, then plays them back at the usual fps but REALLY REALLY BIG. More info here. I’d embed some kind of image but the Slow [...]
Kim Piotrowski
Posted in Painting, tagged Chicago, Illinois, Kim Piotrowski, Painting, saic on October 14, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Kim Piotrowski
