museu mVIEWS A quarterly newsletter for small and mid-sized art museums Summer 2011 BU ILDING ADREAM to Z,” and we were fortunate to find a firm, uses that would help us achieve our vision of DO YOU NorthStar Museums, who understood our being a comfortable place where kids and fami - vision of being a place where children and their lies could explore science, technology, engi - KNOW grown-ups learn through play in a comfortable, neering, math, and the arts. inspiring, welcoming environment. Experienced in negotiations, and represent - YOUR ABC’S? “B” is for Balance ing DCM’s financial and future operations Turning Vision into Reality interests, our project-management firm was able to shave costs and thoughtfully re-jigger by Julie W. Van Blarcom The second of the building blocks we infrastructure throughout the building. With acquired (and continue to use) was an under - these changes, our team was able to reduce The Delaware Children’s Museum (DCM) standing of the see-saw relationship between costs by an incredible 28 percent, making funds is a $12-million, 37,000-square-foot facility hopes for the facility and dreams for the mis - available for several additional guest-experi - that opened in April 2010 as the state’s first sion elements inside, and how to find an opti - ence elements, including an entire new exhibi - children’s museum. During our final three-year mal balance between the two. As we reviewed tion (on engineering and construction, coinci - design and build process, we learned a few fun - the project budget with our adept project man - dentally), child-friendly banding elements for damental lessons about major museum con - ager, we saw how small changes in the facility the facility’s exterior (including a vibrant struction projects and, like our young guests, plan could add up to meaningful cost savings, yellow exterior skin that won’t need repainting we quickly built on these basics and used them which we could then use to supplement the every few years), and additional space for a to develop more advanced knowledge as the education and exhibits plan. convenient snack spot to meet the needs of project proceeded. An envisioned double-door entry vestibule, hungry learners without interrupting their visit. Our “ABCs” are probably universal, no for example, eventually was replaced with a matter which “museum language” you much less expensive air curtain that maintains “C” is for Collaboration speak –art, history, science, children-specific, or our building temperature regardless of season any type of institution –and we hope they’re or the number of times the main doors are The final fundamental lesson we learned eagerly opened. This freed up funds for other useful to anyone planning a major renovation, was how to work together in a Continued on page 3 expansion, or new construction project. “A” is for Adeptness Groups Unify to Promote Destination by Stanley Grand and Wendy Nagle We found it invaluable to use a profes - sional project-management firm adept at, or L Seven of the city’s most prominent arts ancaster County, PA, institutions rose to the challenge. In addition to very skilled in the unique needs of a muse um –in the region best known as our case a museum for children and families. the Lancaster Museum of Art, the Heritage “Pennsylvania Dutch Country,” Center Museum, and the Lancaster Quilt & While our board of trustees and staff members is most famously known for Textile Museum, the group includes represen - had a fantastic range and depth of experience in its bucolic Amish countryside, quaint roadside core museum functions such as education, stands, and quiet, peaceful way of life. But the tatives from LancasterARTS, which serves as fundraising, finance, marketing, and stakehold - discerning traveler will tell you that located in the informational hub for the arts; the er engagement, we knew very little about local the center of this rolling farmland is the City Lancaster Symphony Orchestra; the Fulton building codes or how to schedule construction of Lancaster, a vibrant arts destination. In fact, Theatre, a National Historic Landmark; The tasks in the optimal sequence. the City of Lancaster boasts more than 125 Demuth Museum, honoring American Creating a new building, and all that goes professional art venues –all within one walka - Modernist Charles Demuth; and the into it, is a once-in-a-decade experience that ble community –including museums, galleries, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, one of our team just didn’t have under its belt –so it performance spaces, and even an arts college. only 40 private art colleges in the nation. made sense to hire someone with that special - A 2009 study by Franklin & Marshall College Following months of planning, the group set ized knowledge when it was needed, as you showed that county residents spend $36 mil - out to spread the word and make people aware would a lawyer, investment manager, or other lion a year on city arts experiences, ranging of the great artistic offerings in the city with a professional not on the payroll. from ticket sales to lodging, shopping, and concentrated marketing effort to brand the arts Construction companies can provide a dining in the area. When indirect spending is community as an overall arts destination. With large variety of services, but finding a project- added in, the total economic footprint of the additional funding from the PA Dutch management team is really the key to project arts totals nearly $73 million. Realizing the Convention and Visitors Bureau, the group success. Having an adept project-management developed a new marketing campaign focusing team is having YOUR personal advocate for economic potential of increased awareness of arts in the city, members of the on regional print and broadcast YOUR project. However, few of these have advertising, a new destina - demonstrable experience in tackling a museum Lancaster arts community tion-focused website, and capital project or effectively guiding a museum made the decision to band team through those “specific-to-museums” together to share the proactive public relations. facets that go beyond mere construction and excitement of this destina - It began the process of planning –issues like selecting a ticketing tion with a larger, regional working together by system; ensuring exhibits are durable and not audience. And, having come meeting regularly and a maintenance- or operating-cost burden after to the same realization, the collaborating to highlight an opening; and developing business-plan compo - Lancaster County Community array of individual galleries, nents, such as admission prices, that contribute Foundation offered a generous grant to museums, and other arts venues that to long-term financial stability. those arts organizations that would partner make the city a singular arts destination. Delaware Children’s Museum needed an together to increase the presence of Since the partnership takes a leadership role expert in managing museum projects “from A Lancaster’s arts scene. for all the arts institutions in the city, many Continued on page 9 Top: Roger Bartlett, Deeper than the Senses , 2010. Mixed media. In “Series 63,” Waterloo Center for the Arts, IA Above: Adrian Arleo, Two Bas. Consort and Colsole . Clay, glaze, and encaustic. In “Persistence in Clay,” Missoula Art Museum, MO DIRECTOR’S CORNER

Loyal Supporters is churned up and brown –this is the working to purchase the painting became the talk of the Gulf after all –not the Chamber of Commerce town and a magnet that increased attendance to Enhance Collections turquoise blue waters meant to lure tourists. the Appleton Museum. by Dr. John Z. Lofgren And there is a dark storm building on the hori - zon –a familiar part of life on the Florida coast. n exhibition of artwork by A positive experience A Yet we sense the storm has a larger meaning. Florida Artists Hall of Fame inductee What does the future hold for this family and This was a positive experience that told us Christopher Still at the Appleton Museum of their way of life?” a lot about the support we have from our Art, College of Central Florida, was planned to membership and the Ocala community. The open in January 2011 as one in a series of tem - The mechanics immediate and generous response to our call porary exhibitions focusing on Florida artists. of an acquisition for assistance in acquiring an important con - It was to be displayed in one of the smaller temporary Florida masterpiece for our collec - galleries, in conformance with the Appleton’s While the painting was in progress it tion was heartwarming. To the donors, it mission to afford this opportunity to established and emerging Florida artists. In order to show - case works that had not been previously viewed by the public, the museum chose to exhibit some of Still's more intimate small oil sketches and preparatory compositions rather than some of his larger and well known pieces that we could have assembled from public and private collections. Perhaps best known for his realisti - cally rendered paintings that contain levels of symbolism and historical references, Christopher Still is especially familiar to Floridians through the 10 large historical murals he was commissioned to paint between 1999 and 2004 for permanent display in the Florida House of Representatives in Tallahassee. As the final details were firmed up for Still's exhibition at the Appleton, the disastrous Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill accident occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. No one knew what effect the calamity Christopher Still, And My Father Before Me , 2010. Oil on would have on the natural wildlife, or the beau - became clear to me that the Appleton Museum canvas. In “Visions of the Gulf,” Appleton Museum of Art, FL ty, and not least, the economy of the entire ought to, if possible, acquire this invaluable region. For months the daily news reported on documentation of Florida life. With the bless - brought a definite sense of ownership of the the oil gushing into the pristine water of the ing of the museum's Collection Committee, painting, the museum, and its permanent Gulf. There was no end in sight. which had no significant acquisition fund avail - collection. It inspired others to give toward For Christopher Still, it became imperative able for a purchase of this magnitude, a plan future purchases; we have already received that he capture the beauty of the Gulf Coast, for a fund raising campaign was quickly formu - suggestions for other acquisitions. Equally which he cherished so much, before it was too lated. Even though such a painting by important is the growing pride throughout the late. He traveled to the Florida Panhandle and Christopher Still could have fetched consider - community, and the desire to build for future spent weeks producing numerous drawings and ably more, which he was offered by a major generations, a goal that is implicit in the man - preparatory oil sketches of the Gulf, shoreline, collector, he stuck to his earlier promise to the date of the Appleton. It is rewarding beyond and local people. Consequently, the exhibition museum. words to find that so many members of our coming to the Appleton in 2011 suddenly took We decided to involve our entire member - community feel as we do, and understand the a different turn, shifted focus, and became ship, an approach that had never been tried importance of preserving a glimpse of our “Visions of the Gulf.” before at the Appleton, rather than approach a world for future generations growing up in single donor for the support we needed. our area. K A symbol in the making Starting in December 2010, an appeal for dona - Early one morning in the summer of 2010, tions was sent out to the Appleton's members, [Dr. John Z. Lofgren is director of the as the sun was rising over Apalachicola Bay, friends of the museum, business leaders, and Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL] Christopher Still saw a young Florida family the local community. The campaign included hard at work, harvesting oysters. He was such strategies as speaking engagements at civic clubs, direct mail, e-mail blasts, publicity, inspired to record this way of life passed down museu m through generations of Floridians and now advertisements, phone calls to high level VIEWS threatened by the oil spill. With their permis - donors, messages on the homepage of the Editor: Lila Sherman sion, he circled their low boat for the next Appleton's website, signage in the lobby of the Publisher: Museum Views, Ltd. week painting countless small studies of them museum, and a final appeal for donations at the 2 Peter Cooper Road, New York, NY 10010 at work. exhibition's closing event. Phone: 212-677-3415 FAX: 212 533-5227 From these, Still produced a painting he Thanks to the broad support from all seg - Email: [email protected] named And My Father Before Me . It became ments of our community we were able to raise On the WEB: museumviews.org the centerpiece of his Appleton exhibition the required purchase price during the eight- museum VIEWS is supported by grants from the “Visions of the Gulf,” which opened on Jan. week run of the exhibition. Eighty-seven indi - Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation 22, 2011. It captures the uncertainty of the vidual gifts were received, ranging from $5 to and Bloomberg. future because of the oil spill. Appleton's $10,000. A good illustration of the dedication museum VIEWS is published 4 times a year: Curator of Exhibitions Ruth Grim described the to the project came from a local artist on a Winter (January 1), Spring ( April 1), Summer painting in the exhibition catalogue: “The water fixed income who gave $100 and the following (July 1), and Fall (October 1), Deadlines for month returned with another $100. The effort listings and art work are November 15, February 15, May 15, and August 15. 2 LYING IN WAIT: Mining the Permanent Collection by Joseph Ruzicka while accomplishing important mission work (that often goes unfunded and undone). The host With the return of some financial stability museums get an exhibition at a lower cost, with after the treacherous months of 2009 that kept simplified logistics and paperwork. They get to museum directors close to home, many were exhibit work that their community may not nor - able to convene once again for the 2010 annual mally be exposed to and that may be difficult or Directors Forum conference. The insights of the impossible to collect today in any meaningful panelists for “Lying in Wait: Mining the way. And of course, there is the interchange Permanent Collection” enriched the discussion among members of the staff who, in the course and provided much food for thought. The fol - of the project, interact and exchange ideas with lowing is an adaptation of my introductory their colleagues at other institutions. remarks for the session. I strongly suspected that refocusing on the Strengthening bonds permanent collection was a temporary solution Focusing on what is in the permanent col - and that when the economy turned around, insti - lection offers a golden opportunity to strengthen tutions would return to the loan show as a pri - ties with the local community that a museum mary programming feature and gate attraction. serves. Too often, it seems, the public perceives Not so. Featuring the permanent collection is that the permanent collection belongs to the becoming an established part of programming board and the staff, when in theory, if not in for museums both large and small. Major publi - practice, the board and staff hold the permanent cations such as The Art Newspaper , The New collection in trust for the community. This is a York Times , and The Wall Street Journal contin - teaching moment (or a marketing moment) to let Titian, La Bella , mid-1530s. At at the Kimbell Art Museum, TX ue to cover and comment upon the vitality of the public know the role the museum plays as a permanent collection programming, mainly public servant. Reminding the different con - exhibitions. Collection shows over the last few stituencies of the museum that the collection is a ABCs continued from page 1 years have included both small, erudite exhibi - community asset (not to be monetized) strength - tions and big-name attractions sure to guarantee ens bonds with key funding and decision-mak - complex team that included DCM board and a broad audience. ing groups and individuals. staff members, the project managers, donors Pride of place and pride of ownership can and government agencies, building contractors Back to basics be powerful tools. And not just for raising cash. and subcontractors, architects, engineers, An obvious statement bears repeating: Experience tells us that collection programming exhibit designers and fabricators, advertising museums acquire, preserve, and interpret begets collection building: the strategically and publicity firms, enterprise-software and objects. This primary purpose has been true for placed lacuna in an exhibition or gallery rein - gift-shop vendors, and the wide variety of centuries and remains so today, though various stallation, coupled with the diplomatic walk- community stakeholders common to any pressures have scattered the focus. The econom - through of a collector, is a very friendly avenue museum. ic catastrophe that recently enveloped our socie - for the director and curator. Although building the Museum came ty turns out to have had a silver lining: the with some surprising twists and turns, the imperative to find cost effective ways to contin - Don’t hesitate-ASK value of our project-management firm’s spe - ue public outreach supports a renewed focus on Works of art on paper –prints, drawings, cialized knowledge and tools became appar - the care and feeding of the permanent collec - photographs, illustrated books, and archival ent. Schedules, priorities, budgets, responsibil - tions (still our primary purpose). This is an material –generally form the largest and deepest ities, and tasks were tracked and updated con - opportunity to rethink institutional priorities and part of any given permanent collection, and thus tinuously –sometimes daily –and challenges to discard unnecessary accretions, to right-size offer the best resource in the building for devel - were elevated for executive decisions and the primary purpose. After all, so many of us oping multiple programs. It is also the most resolutions as quickly as a parent runs to a entered the profession to collect and study works mysterious part of the collection for a director: child’s bed when needed. of art; never mind that we are often called upon at any given time, 95% of it is in storage, in a All the members of our extended team to do things only tangentially related. locked room for which you may not have the were able to bring their own experience into Programming opportunities are many and key. Although curators are always ready to show the project when planning logistics, resolving varied: exhibitions in the galleries and on the things to you, you have to know beforehand issues, or acting on new opportunities. From website; publications, either electronic or print - what to ask for. Some of the more delicate engineering a complex water-play area to ed; education studio classes and gallery tours works, such as watercolors, may not have been designing a donor-recognition system that examining collection works; needed conserva - on public view for years and thus are only echoes the DCM’s spirit, our team approach tion of key works and public updates on their vaguely remembered. For the fifteen minutes coordinated by an expert project core allowed progress. The cost benefits of these activities are per month a director has to look through storage, the overall project to benefit greatly. We obvious: the art is already in the building, the painting screens are so much simpler. As a opened on time, under budget, and to great insured and photographed; there are no repro - long-time curator of prints and drawings, I acclaim from donors, media, educators, stake - duction, loan, or shipping fees; no protracted observed and tried to assuage the hesitancy of holders, and visitors of all ages. loan negotiations; money for these projects can my directors; as a director, I hesitated. And even now, a year after the project often be found in the operating budget. This is Do not be daunted, for the riches that will team wound down, the lessons we learned an opportunity to strengthen intramural staff be revealed to you are manifold and varied. about adeptness, balance, and collaboration relations as different departments work together Entire exhibitions are lying in wait in the live on in our smaller operating team, helping on the art in their museum, not someone else’s, Solander boxes. us to achieve a wildly successful first year in an important morale booster in challenging which we surpassed all projections for atten - times. The panel elucidates dance, membership, earned income, and con - In fact, collection exhibitions can generate During our panel discussion, four distin - tributed gifts. K income that offsets all or much of a project’s guished custodians of paper collections offered costs. Some museums have charged a special advocacy and advice. They spoke about projects [Julie W. Van Blarcom is executive director admission fee for an exhibition (Picasso is use - that mine their resources, and embrace new and CEO, Delaware Children’s Museum, ful for that). Other times, a museum can package audiences and new ideas. They stressed the ethi - Wilmington, DE. The head of Northstar and travel an exhibition to another venue, charg - cal obligations that we have as caretakers of our Museums, the project management firm hired ing a nominal fee. This has obvious benefits society’s culture, to fearlessly grow and interpret by the museum, was invited to join the board both for the organizing institution and the host our collections for our generation and those that of directors at the completion of the project.] venues. The organizer recoups some or most of follow. its cost for staff time, conservation and framing, Gillian Forrester, curator of prints and Continued on page 9 3 Notes for Travelers VENICE SYDNEY The Venice Biennale –the 54th International Art The Biennale of Sydney (Sept. 16), is the Exhibition (through Nov. 27 )–is back. Laid out in the first biennale to be established in the Asia-Pacific women who were formative for the avant-garde in Central Pavilion in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, region. Since its inception in 1973, it has provided a the 1920s and 30s. the exhibition ILLUMI nazioni - ILLUMI nations, platform for contemporary art, showcasing the work Starting in Sept 16, the focus at the Akademie- featuring 83 artists from all over the world, includes of more than 1500 artists from over 83 countries. In Galerie-Die Neue Sammlung will be photography. 32 young artists born after 1975, as well as 32 its 18th incarnation, it is being held in several venues At the Kunstverein of Rheinland and women artists. Four participating artists created including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Westphalia , “Habitat –A Group Exhibition in “parapavilions,” architectural and sculptural struc - Museum of Contemporary Art, Pier 2/3, Cockatoo Multiple Parts” (Oct. 3) is on view; later on, a solo tures erected in the Giardini and the Arsenale, to Island, as well as others not announced at print time. exhibition by Portuguese artist “Leonor Antunes” house the works of other artists. The theme, “ All Our Relations,” focuses on inclu - (Oct. 21-mid Jan. 2012). Eighty-nine nations are participants, a record since sionary art practices: collaboration, conversation, and The city’s tourism office, Düsseldorf Marketing & the last Biennale in 2009, exhibiting in many loca - compassion. Attention is paid to how things connect, Tourismus GmbH (DMT), offers special hotel pack - tions around the city. For the first time, Andorra, how we relate to each other and to the world. Rather ages for art enthusiasts. Packages include a hotel Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, and Haiti are making their than one work appearing to link to other works, proj - night, breakfast, and free admission to many of the appearances. Others are participating after a long ects will relate as if evolving from each other, pro - city’s art intuitions, free public transportation, and a period of absence: India (1982), Congo (1968), Iraq gressing through the various venues. Collaboration city information package. Prices start at 75 Euros per (1990), Zimbabwe (1990), South Africa (1995), takes place on many different levels, artist with artist, person for a central four-star hotel. Costa Rica (1993), Cuba (1995). Thirty-seven collat - artist with audience, audience with perception of self. eral events around the city were arranged by interna - THE HAGUE LONDON tional organizations and institutions. Beyond museums there is another world of art – In addition to the many national exhibits, this By acquiring Still Life of a Bouquet in the London’s underground, especially the station at Totteham year’s Biennale is also attracting some of the world’s Making by Dirck de Bray (c. 1635-1694), the Court Road. French artist Daniel Buren’s colorful geometric political figures. According to Il Gazzettino, Venice’s Mauritshuis has added a particularly rare gem to its art will captivate crowds in one of London’s busiest stations local newspaper, Shimon Peres, president of Israel, rich collection of 17th-century flower still lifes, when the £1 billion expansion, commissioned by Transport and Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, president of which forms an important part of the collection. It for London for its Art on the Underground program, is Argentina, visited during the first week of festivities. joins works by Bosschaert the Elder and Jan Davidsz completed in 2016. Heads of state from Australia, Azerbaijan, de Heem. Montenegro, and Georgia are also expected to attend. AMSTERDAM LIMERICK See the June issue of The Art Newspaper for all At the Foynes Flying Boat Museum , Square the details. The Rijksmuseum Schiphol , the Rijksmuseum’s Zero, the UK’s top 3D Production and Hologram cre - VENICE annex at the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is showing ation company, is serving up a holographic show for “Dutch Flowers” (through Sept.), nine works from the museum’s Irish coffee exhibit. Why Irish coffee? At the Munchner Stadtmuseum , “Bernd & the museum’s collection that used to hang in the The Foynes terminal building is credited with being Hilda Becher: Mines and Mills,” on view through homes of the 17th-century elite of Amsterdam. the birthplace of the famous drink. The mix of virtual Sept. 11, is the product of this team of photographers Gardens were considered an extension of the home holographic and real exhibit takes place in a re-creat - who made a literal global inventory of industrial and vice versa. With growing prosperity through the ed restaurant and coffee shop, which was originally architecture. Images include factory buildings, gas century, flower gardens became more popular. in the Foynes terminal building. storage tanks, power distributors, shaft towers, steel Growing prosperity, however, caused the appearance furnaces, and more. of more flower gardens and more flowers in homes. MONACO ZURICH Introduced from Asia around 1600, the anemone, While Monaco is preparing for the wedding of crocus, hyacinth, and tulip were immensely popular. its sovereign, the Grimaldi Forum , echoing the “Ai Weiwei: Interlacing” (Aug. 21) at The trade in flower bulbs, tulips in particular, proved theme, is presenting an exhibition on the “Splendor Fotomuseum Winterthur is an overview of the great a highly lucrative business. At the height of the “tulip and Grandeur of the Courts in Europe” (Sept. 11) conceptualists work. An architect, sculptor, photogra - mania” in 1630, a tulip bulb could cost as much as an from the 17th to the 20th century. For the first time, pher, blogger, Twitterer, interview artist, and cultural entire house on the canal. an exhibition will bring together the 20 courts of critic, Ai Weiwei was imprisoned in China for his Since prices of flowers were prohibitive for aver - Europe (of which ten are still active). well known confrontations with social conditions both age citizens, who prized bouquets to decorate their No unifying theme underlies the works and the in China and around the world. This large exhibition homes, pictures of flowers –still lifes –began to characters shown, but rather the public is presented of his photographs and videos reveals his diversity, appear, the first in the 1630s and 40s. A painting of a with an overview of some individuals or couples who complexity, and connectedness –his “interlacing.” flower, after all, was less expensive than the actual have made their mark on history. Accompanying the “Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in thing, and lasted longer. images is a potpourri of objects belonging to a vari - Photography” (Aug. 14) explores the starting point of Flower still lifes were still in vogue in the 18th ety of notables; Napoleon and Josephine, Victoria conceptualism in photography. It was with and 19th centuries when the rise of large-scale com - and Albert, Alexander II and Sissi, for example, and Rodchenko, already known as a painter, sculptor, and mercial bulb-growing transformed the Netherlands also Charles III of Monaco. designer, that photography, instead of being an illus - into the flower nation it remains today. tration of reality, became a means to visually repre - DÜSSELDORF SHINJUKU sent intellectual constructs, and the artist became an The combination of earthquakes, tsunami, and “artist-engineer.” Destabilizing diagonals, harsh con - After a two-year renovation, the Museum damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant has had a trasts, tilted views, and picture and text collages are Kunstpalast reopened its doors earlier this year. On dramatic effect on museums in Japan. Although design elements found in his photographs. view is a wide ranging collection ranging from 16th- national museums, closed for a week after the March PARIS and 18th-century Dutch painting, European painting 11 earthquake, have re-opened, hours have been from Romantic to Impressionist, German curtailed by an hour on some days, three hours on The Dutch cultural center Institut Néerlandais Expressionism, and post-1945 works by the ZERO late-night Fridays. Many of the large spring special in Paris is presenting some 100 drawings in the exhi - Group. “El Greco and Early German Expressionism,” shows as well as the smaller ones have been canceled bition “Rembrandt and His Circle: Master Drawings currently on view (Aug. 5), examines the affinity or postponed. The problem is one of conservation: from the Collection Frits Lugt” (through Oct.). The between the two; many works on display suggest the power cuts and shortages cause foreign lenders to be works are shown in the 17th-century frames, recently influence of El Greco on such as Oskar Kokoschka, reluctant to risk uncontrolled changes in temperature restored, from the Fondation Custodia. Fritz Lugt Max Oppenheimer, Max Beckmann, and others. and humidity. An additional concern is radiation; (1884-1970), a great private collector of drawings, Later in the season, “The Düsseldorf School of “We wouldn’t be able to show a painting for years was a major historian of Dutch art, focusing especial - Painting-Crossing Bridges between Cultures” (Sept. if it had been exposed to radiation in Japan,” ly on landscapes and portraits. He regarded the 17th 24-Jan. 23, 2012) is the first exhibit of this genre in said Mario Haefliger at the Segantini Museum century in the Netherlands as a “golden age,” with more than 30 years. It draws on the more than 4000 in St. Moritz. Rembrandt as its great hero. artists from all over the world who make up the At the Louvre , Neapolitan artist Mimmo Jodice Düsseldorf School, all attracted by the city’s MARSEILLE juxtaposes photographs of famous painted portraits in Academy of Art. Included in the exhibit are works by Museum Huis voor fotografie is presenting the museum (from different periods) with those of A. Achenbach, A. Böcklin, C.F Lessing, and W. von “Adam Fuss: A Survey of his work 1986-2010” Louvre employees in the exhibition “Mimmo Jodice- Schadow, as well as Emanuel Leutze’s Washington (Sept. 4) in which subjects (silhouettes, gossamer The Louvre’s Eyes” (Aug. 15). In doing so he aims Crossing the Delaware , which was painted in christening gowns, rabbits, butterflies, snakes, lace, to abolish time and to eliminate the difference Düsseldorf. smoke, drops of water) have been removed from between painting and photography, to restore life, “The Other Side of the Moon –Female Artists of their natural habitats and become symbols soul, and personality to bygone figures and confer the Avant-Garde” (Oct. 22-Jan. 15, 2012) will come or icons. K new status to the subjects of the photographic por - to the K20 , which houses the collection of the State Top: Mimmo Jodice, The Louvre’s Eyes , at the Louvre traits of today. of North Rhine Westphalia. The exhibit will focus on 4 summer VIEWS Arizona with media, and innovative struc - Lyman Allyn Art Museum , New Travels” (Aug. 14) Written descrip - Museum of Northern Arizona , tures; featured presses are Foolscap London K “The Subject is Light: The tions of the Southern wilderness Flagstaff K “A:shiwi A:wan Press of Santa Cruz, Moving Parts Henry and Sharon Martin Collection before European settlement recreated Ulohnanne—The Zuni World” (Oct. Press of Santa Cruz, Ninja Press of of Contemporary Realist Paintings” on canvas. K “Civil War Redux: 20) Map art paintings: the Zuni peo - Sherman Oaks, Peter Koch Printers (Aug. 21) New England seascapes Pinhole Photographs by Willie Anne ple’s approach to mapping with art, a of Berkeley, and Turkey Press of Isla and still lifes that demonstrate the Wright” (Sept. 4) Sepia-toned camp process that reinforces indigenous Vista. K “Illustrated Title Pages: changing effects of light in nature. K scenes, medical and death-related knowledge of ancestral lands and 1500-1900” (Oct. 16) The evolution “Face Off: Portraits by Contem- images, portrayals of widows, all describes the world as a cultural of these illustrations: works by porary Artists” (Sept. 18) The role of shot from reenactments through a landscape. K “Full Measure—The William Morris, Piranesi, Redon, portraiture as a vehicle for address - lens-less camera. Artistic Legacy of Bruce Aiken” Whistler, and many others. K “True ing identity, gender, race, class, and (Sept. 6) Oil paintings of the Grand Colors: Rediscovering Pigments on the information age. Iowa Canyon, along with works from trips Greco-Roman Marble Sculpture” Muscatine Art Center K to Mexico, France, and Italy; paint - (Aug. 7) Scientific evidence chal - Mattatuck Museum Arts & “Muscatine and the Civil War: A ings from his artist-in-residency at lenging the modern vision of ancient History Center , Waterbury K Sesquicentennial Commemoration” NASA; and his most recent up-close white-marble figures proves that “Rooms With a View: 200 Years of (April 29) Artifacts, including letters portraits of Canyon rocks. Greco-Roman marble statuary was American Design” (Sept. 25) and a Civil War battle flag. originally brightly colored; color Stylistic highlights of two centuries: California replicas are included. articles of daily use and adornment, Waterloo Center for the Arts K Monterey Museum of Art K fine arts and hand crafts, furnishings “Roger Bartlett: Series 63” (Aug. 31) “Edward Weston: American Colorado and costumes. K “Waterbury in the Works in a variety of media inspired Photographer” (Oct. 2) Vintage prints CU Art Museum , University of Civil War” (Sept. 18) Diaries, corre - by the artist’s journeys along the of famous photos and ones that have Colorado, Boulder K “Giving and spondence, photographs, and uni - Highway 63 corridor. rarely been exhibited. Receiving: A Collaborative forms from Waterbury soldiers who Exhibition of Contemporary Artists fought in the Civil War. Kansas Hearst Art Gallery , Saint Mary’s from China and the United States” Dane G. Hansen Museum , Logan K College of California, Moraga K (July 22) Cultural exchange that fol - District of Columbia “The Curious World of Patent “Pam Glover: A Life in Art” (Sept. lows 2007 exhibition held at the Federal Reserve Board K Models” (Aug. 28) In the beginning 11) Landscape paintings, earlier work National Museum of China in “Revisiting Spaces and Places: (1790) through the Industrial done in China and Australia, post- Beijing. Drawings and Photographs by Revolution, models were required to WWII and 1950s fashion illustra - William Christenberry” (Sept. 16) A accompany applications for patents; tions, landscapes from France and Connecticut childhood in rural Alabama recalled. usually no more that 12 square inch - Switzerland, mixed media and non- Bruce Museum , Greenwich K es, most were made by professional representational paintings. “Congolese Sculpture from the Kreeger Museum K “Tom model makers; they are still in work - Collection of Alan Stone” (Sept. 4) Wesselmann Draws” (July 30) A key ing order (the oldest in the collection Crocker Art Museum , Sacramento Power figures figure in the Pop is from 1809. K “The Pramila and Indru Kriplani meant to pro - Art Movement Collection of Modern Indian tect communi - with Warhol, Mulvane Art Museum , Washburn Painting” (Aug. 7) Works that recon - ties from Lichenstein, University, Topeka K “Things Got cile modern art innovations with tra - malevolent Rosenquist, Out of Hand Chapters I & II” (Sept. ditional Indian style art. K Summer forces and dis - Indiana, et al. 18) Self-taught artist’s woven vessels of Impressionism in 2011: Three ease. K and collages that utilize found and K exhibitions trace the path of “Picasso’s Society of the gathered objects. “The® Art of the Impressionism from France to the Vollard Suite: Cincinnati K Brick” (Sept. 18) LEGO bricks as U.S.: “Transcending Vision: The Sculptor’s “Picturesque an art medium to create objects, American Impressionism, 1870- Studio ” (Oct. Effects” (Oct. 1) buildings, and even human forms. 1940” (Sept. 25) Drawn from the 16) 46 etchings, Frances Bank of America Collection, works made in the Benjamin Ulrich Museum of Art , Wichita that trace the development of year from Johnston’s pho - State University, Wichita K “Look Impressionism in America. K spring 1933 to tographs of Out: Pop Art from the Collection” “Landscapes from the Age of spring 1934, Anderson (Sept 4) The artists of the 60s who Impressionism” (Sept. 18) Courbet, from a group of House, one of “look[ed] out into the world” Monet, Hassam, and Sargent, among 100 made for the art dealer and pub - Washington’s grandest; one of the (Lichtenstein) to find their inspira - others from the Brooklyn Museum. lisher Ambroise Vollard. K first of American women to achieve tion in the images surrounding K “Gardens and Grandeur: “Landscape Paintings from the Bruce distinction as a photographer. them—in magazines, newspapers, Porcelains and Paintings by Franz A. Museum Collection” (Sept. 25) 19th- TV screens, and billboards, K “Fisch Bischoff” (Oct. 23) Floral porcelains, and 20th-century views of the Florida Haus 21: An Artists’ Collaborative still lifes, and landscapes. Northeast. Boca Raton Museum of Art K “Art Comes of Age” (Aug. 7) Artworks for the People: 20th Century Social made by the four founding artists San Jose Museum of Quilts and New Britain Museum of American Realism” (Sept. 11) The evolution of since the collaborative’s inception in Textiles K Through Aug. 7: Art K “The Tides of Provincetown: American art from the 1920s to the 1990, a new collaborative installation “Primary Structures” Art knitting and Pivotal Years in America’s Oldest 1950s from urban and rural scenes to by the four, and a new painting com - crochet: simple elements combined Continuous Art Colony (1899-2011)” political and social realism including missioned by the museum. with unconventional materials make (Oct. 16) Provincetown’s legacy as works by the Ashcan School and for compelling art that provides a an art colony; key moments in the photographers such as Evans, Wichita Art Museum K “A Kansas glimpse at art knitting as a new colony’s history, artists who played Bourke-White, and others. Treasure in Context: Mary Cassatt” medium of artistic innovation; pivotal roles, and those who were (July 31) Mother and Child as well “Southwestern Banded Blankets: inspired by it: works by Basiotes, Museum of Fine Arts , St. as etchings and drawings not as well Three Cultures, One Horizon” Hassam, Krasner, among many Petersburg K “The Human Touch: known. Striped blankets from the Pueblo, others. Contemporary Art from the RBC Navajo, and Spanish Colonial Rio Wealth Management Collection” Kentucky Grande cultures Yale Center for British Art , Yale (Sept. 4) Lichtenstein, Dine, Close, The Art Museum , University of University, New Haven K Goldin, Baldessari, Weems, among Kentucky, Lexington K “The Veil: Cantor Center for Visual Arts , “Connections” (Sept. 11) Objects others. Visible and Invisible Spaces” (Oct. Stanford University, Stanford K “The from the center’s collections demon - 9) Exploration of the many cultural Art of the Book in California: Five strate the value of being able to Georgia and political aspects of veils and Contemporary Presses” (Aug. 28) search across the institution’s hold - Morris Museum of Art , Augusta K veiling; artist-created works examine The “new book” as defined by con - ings. K “Art in Focus: William III” “Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier, stereotypes. temporary art practices, experiments (July 31) Landscapes Inspired by Bartram’s 5 Lorrie Fredette, The Great Silence . Sculpture made of beeswax, tree resin, muslin, brass, steel, and nylon line. In “The Great Silence,” Cape Cod Museum of Art, MA summer VIEWS continued Maine contemporary art with outsider art, jewelry, candlesticks; “Kitchen forced masonry, creating great spans Portland Museum of Art K “Will audio with visual, and fine art with Dreams” Time capsule sculptures tell with little material. Barnet at 100” (Aug. 14) Happy popular culture: Johns, Ruscha, stories about by-gone days. birthday, expressed with an installa - Weems and many more. K “Catherine Missouri tion of the centenarian’s paintings and Opie: Empty and Full” (Sept. 5) Clark Art Institute , Williamstown K Lauren Rogers Museum of Art , prints from the museum’s collection. Photographs of recent political “Pissarro’s People” (Oct 2) First Laurel K Through Aug. 14: “Focus K “Refashioned” (July 31) Historical demonstrations and gatherings, from major exhibition of Pissarro’s work in on Fashion” A selection of fashion narratives derived from the construc - President Obama’s inauguration to 30 years; the focus is on his engage - photographs from the 1940s to the tion of articles of clothing: life Tea Party rallies. ment with the human figure through early 60s; “Laurel Collects XI: revealed through the conventions of his family, his friends, and his Vintage Toys and Games” All made outward appearance. K “Maine Museum of Fine Arts , Boston K involvement with the social and polit - before 1970, all from regional collec - Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900- “Chihuly: Through the Looking ical theories of his time. tions. 1940” (Sept. 11) Works by artists Glass” (Aug. 7) Works created over who summered in an area of Maine the last four decades including the Michigan Contemporary Art Museum , St. called Seguinland: Hartley, Weber, 40-foot-tall Lime Green Icicle Tower . University of Michigan Museum of Louis K “Cryptic: The Use of Zorach, Lachaise, among others. K Art , Ann Arbor K “UMMA Projects; Allegory in Contemporary Art, with a “John Marin: Modernism at Mid-cen - Fuller Craft Museum , Brockton K Amalia Pica” (Sept. 18) Master Class from Goya” (Aug. 14) tury” (Oct. 10) The late period: the “Changing Waters: Installation by Communications explored through Artists using allegory in a wide vari - complex compositions derived from Nathalie Miebach” (Sept. 25) A work sculpture, photography, film, and ety of media juxtaposed with two the ever changing patterns made by that combines basket weaving and installation. series of prints by Goya (the the sea. K “The Dorothy and Herbert graphics to produce a structured rep - Caprichos and the Disparates ) which Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for resentation of scientific data based on Kresge Art Museum , Michigan demonstrate that allegory has been Maine” Part I (Oct. 23) A selection of the weather and marine environmen - State University, East Lansing K utilized for centuries, and continues the Maine portion of the “Fifty Works tal data. K “Loom and Lathe: The Art Through July 29: “Vision Play: in use today. for Fifty States” gift program. of Kay Sekimachi and Bob Contemporary Illusions” A selection Stocksdale” (Sept. 11) Fiber art and of hard-edge, Op, and “natural” geo - Montana Saco Museum K “Point of woodturning executed by a long-mar - metrical art from the museum collec - Missoula Art Museum K Through Departure”: (Sept. 4) Photographs, ried couple. tion; “Hiraki Sawa: Other Dwellings” Aug. 28: “Neighborhood Days” drawings, collages, and encaustic Single-channel video works that are Works from 18 neighborhoods that paintings that document a week-long Cahoon Museum of American Art , intimate meditations on place and the form the neighborhood council sys - residency at beautiful Penobscot Bay. Cotuit K “Mighty Ships and Their activities that can occur in imagina - tem that documents the unique nature Journeys to Beyond” (July 24) A look tive dimensions; “Visualizing Sound” of each community; “Expressing Maryland at the importance of ships to the A beryllium copper sculpture with Montana” Poets, songwriters, visual Contemporary Museum , Baltimore economy and to the personal pleasure vertical rods that sway and peal caril - artists–rightwing or left, folk or fine, K “l.o.l.: A Decade of Antic Art” of their owners. K “So What’s in a lon-like sounds. rural or urban–focus on social, politi - (Aug. 31) A look at the artists who Bog?” (Sept. 18) The portrayal of cal, and environmental commentary. inject themselves and their work into bogs–a major element in the Cape Flint Institute of Arts K Through K “Persistence in Clay: Contem- the public sphere, removed from the Cod landscape–by artists in the 19 th Aug. 7: “Edmund Lewandowski: porary Ceramics in Montana” (Sept, traditional gallery space –public parks, century to the present. K “South Cape Precisionism and Beyond” His first 10) The legacy of clay in Montana TV shows, magazines, markets, polit - Artists Group” (Sept. 11) The output retrospective; “Something Waits remains strong, largely through the ical campaigns, and anywhere else of a group that meets every Monday Beneath It–Early Works by Andrew Archie Bray Foundation for the their spirits and/or convictions to paint south Cape waterways and Wyeth 1939-1969” Seldom seen and Ceramic Arts, which pioneered the move them. other landmarks. intimate. medium in the state.

Walters Art Museum , Baltimore K Cape Cod Museum of Art , Dennis Fredericks Sculpture Museum , New Hampshire “The Art of the Writing Instrument K Through July 31: “Collages and Saginaw Valley State University, Thorne–Sagendorph Art Gallery , from Paris to Persia” (Sept. 25) Paintings by Edward Giobbi” and University Center K “2 Centuries, 3 Keene State College, Keene K Objects that reflect the prestige and “Recent Works by Varujan Decades, 28 Works by Charles “Figuratively Speaking” (July 24) pleasures of writing: pens, knives, Boghosian” Friends who studied on McGee” (Sept. 24) A pride of Portraits from the permanent collec - scissors, storage chests, pen cases, the Cape and use the past as subject Michigan. tion: Corneille, Goya, Kent, writing desks owned by statesmen, for their art. K “The Great Silence” Mapplethorpe, and others. calligraphers, merchants, and fashion - (Sept. 25) Site specific installation Minnesota able women. K “Setting Sail: Images made of beeswax, tree resin, muslin, Tweed Museum of Art , University New Jersey of the Sea from the Walters’ brass, steel and nylon line, suspended of Minnesota, Duluth K “Working on American Labor Museum , Haledon Collection” (Sept. 11) Drawings, from the gallery ceiling. K the Homefront: Potlatch Royal K “Living Under the Trees” (Aug. paintings, and prints of ships, sailors, “Perspectives on the Provincetown Canadian Mounted Police 27) Photographs and oral histories of and the sea. Art Colony” (Aug. 7) Works by Illustrations and World War II” (Sept. Mexican immigrant agricultural artists–Hofmann, Motherwell, 4) Posters and 1940s trade magazine workers who return from work to tent Washington County Museum of Tworkov, Frankenthaler, Hopper ads, all focused around the ad cam - settlements. Fine Arts , Hagerstown K “R. Avery, Grooms, and others–who stud - paign of the Northwest Paper/Potlatch Benjamin Jones: Making Pictures” ied and/or taught in the art schools on Corporation (now Sappi Paper). Monmouth Museum , Lincroft K (Sept. 18) Retrospective from early the Cape, the most notable of which “The Painting World of James Avati” years in Baltimore to seminary life to was Hans Hofmann’s school. Goldstein Museum of Design , Saint (Sept. 4) Paperback book covers. artist/pastor in Hagerstown. K “79 th Paul K “Beyond Peacocks and Annual Cumberland Valley Artists Peabody Essex Museum , Salem K Paisleys: Handcrafted textiles of India Zimmerli Art Museum , Rutgers Exhibition” (Sept. 4) All mediums, all “Painting the American Vision” (sum - and its neighbors” (Sept. 25) Ikat University, New Brunswick K regional, all juried. mer) Hudson River School paintings weaving, varieties of embroidery, “Mystics and Moderns: Painting in from the New-York Historical Society block printing, bandhani and lahariya Estonia before Glasnost” (Oct. 11) Massachusetts celebrating the acquisition of varieties of tie-dye, and more, show - The country’s artists’ answer to offi - Institute of Contemporary Art , Kensett’s Forty Steps, Newport, cased through a collection of saris, cial Soviet Realism–Western trends Boston K “The Record: Contem- Rhode Island, 1860 . shawls, and home textiles, today such as Pop Art, Conceptualism, porary Art and Vinyl” (Sept. 5) made with traditional techniques tem - hard-edge abstraction, and Artists from around the world who Sandwich Glass Museum K “A pered with advances in technology Minimalism adapted to the nationalist have worked with records as their Splash of Glass” (July 29) Flowers, and changes in taste. K “Eladio opposition to Soviet power. subject or their medium; through fish, vases, paperweights, jewelry, all Dieste: A Principled Builder” (Aug. sculpture, installation, drawing, paint - in brilliant color. K Aug. 3-Oct. 30: 1) Innovator and builder of humble New York ing, photography, sound work, video, “Jim Holmes of the Chatham Glass structures and churches, he embraced Adirondack Museum , Blue and performance, the show combines Company” Bowls, vases, ornaments, the little known technique of rein - Mountain Lake K “The World of A.F.

6 Mbole (Congo), Anklet , 20th century. Bronze. In “Red Gold,” Trout Gallery, PA Through Aug. 28: “Elliott Erwitt: all three, indulged their passion for or concept-based art and expressionis - Personal Best” Retrospective includes their alma mater and for modern art: tic or figurative work, all intimate in both documentary and commercial one enlarged the center’s collection of size requiring close-up viewing. photographs: portraits of Marilyn M, art of the late 1940s and 50s; another, Jacqueline K, and Che Guevara, and the Stieglitz Circle works; and last, Contemporary Arts Center , scenes from everyday life; the post-Impressionist and Modernist Cincinnati K “Keith Haring: 1978- “Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945” collection with works on paper and 1982” (Sept. 5) The early years that Absence and annihilation taken by the sculptures. established his language as an artist, military photographers sent in after his politics and social conscience, and the atomic bomb struck; “Ruth George Eastman House , Rochester his homosexuality: drawings and Gruber, Photojournalist” From a K Through Sept 18: “Americana: sketchbooks, videos, flyers, posters, writer, correspondent, photojournalist Hollywood and the American Way of photographs and subway drawings, and humanitarian, images of Alaska, Life” Images from the GEH’s collec - word collages, texts, and diaries. K Cyprus, the Exodus, the Soviet Arctic, tion of publicity stills from films such “Denise Burge” (Aug.) Quilt-making and Ethiopia. as On the Town, It’s a Wonderful techniques applied to video result in Life, Father’s Little Dividend, Guess an installation of semi-sculptural Jewish Museum , New York City K Who’s Coming to Dinner , and Junior works. “Maira Kalman: Various Miss ; “Norman Rockwell: Behind the Illuminations (of a Crazy World) Camera” The staged photographs on Southern Ohio Museum , (July 31) Paintings, drawings, and which Rockwell based his work Portsmouth K “Ohio Designer sketches by this illustra - alongside the paintings themselves. Craftsmen: Best of 2011” (Aug. 27) Tait” (Oct. 17) Image maker of tor/author/designer whose work Annual and juried: everything from Adirondack sport, best known in th appears in books, magazines, and on Nassau County Museum of Art , tradition and functional to wildly 19 -century America through Currier commercial products. K “The Line Roslyn Harbor K “Richard Avedon: imaginative, sculptural objects. K & Ives lithographs of his paintings. and the Circle by Sharone Lifschitz” Photographer of Influence” (Sept. 4) “Sternwheelers on the Ohio” (Aug. 2- (Aug. 21) A video of mother and Works that go easily from magazine Oct. 8) Vintage photographs join University Art Museum , State K daughter working together on photo - to museum and project a vision of antique scale models to celebrate the University of New York, Albany graphs made 1959-80s that show life photography as a two-sided mirror history of the river queen paddle- “Regarding Place: Photographs from on a kibbutz in Israel. K “Collecting that reflects both the subject and the wheelers. the University Art Collection” Matisse and Modern Masters: The photographer. (Sept.10) B&W photographs consider Cone Sisters of Baltimore” (Sept. 25) Oregon the resonance of a given site, natural Paintings, sculptures, and works on Noble Maritime Collection , Staten Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Arts , or manmade; “Wolfgang Staehl” full- paper by such as Matisse, Picasso, Island K “Lifespan: The Bayonne Eugene K “I Dream a World: Portraits color digital projections, shot every Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Bridge in Transition” (Oct. 23) of Black Women Who Changed few seconds over a 24-hour cycle, of Gogh with a focus on the vision of Contemporary art and information America:” (Sept. 11) Pulitzer Prize a panoramic view of New York sites the sisters and their personal relation - about the construction and the pro - winner Brian Lanker’s photographs of among which are Manhattan’s Lower ships with contemporary artists; also posed reconfiguration of the bridge. women from the fields of entertain - East Side, the Hudson River valley, on view are textiles, decorative arts, ment, literature, sports, and politics. and Niagara Falls arts of Asia and Africa, photographs, Nevada and archival materials–everything Nevada Museum of Art , Reno K Museum of Contemporary Craft , Hofstra University Museum , K from the Baltimore Museum of Art’s “To Live Forever; Egyptian Treasures Pacific Northwest College of Art, Hofstra University, Hempstead Cone Collection. K “Living Room” from the Brooklyn Museum’ (Sept. 4) Portland K “Nikki McClure: Cutting “Body Mapping” (July 29) Artists (Oct. 23) Installation: a Jewish fami - From 3650 BCE to 365 CE–jewelry, Her Own Path, 1996-2011” (Oct. 29) whose imagery deals with marking K ly’s apartment in 1930s Berlin repro - figurines, and a 50-foot steel pyramid Papercut artwork. the human body. “From the Hand: duced using 3D technology and sound in the parking lot. Drawings from the Hofstra University to explore the past of this ordinary Pennsylvania Museum Collection” (Sept. 11) family and how their lives were North Carolina Trout Gallery , Dickinson College, Cocteau, Dinnerstein, Rivera, disrupted by the catastrophic events Mint Museum , Charlotte K “From Carlisle K “Red Gold: West African Rockwell, and others. of the Holocaust. New York to Corrymore: Robert Currency Objects” (Aug. 6) The K Henri and Ireland” (Aug. 7) The Irish objects that indicate wealth in Katonah Museum of Art “Double Museum of Modern Art , New York landscape and people, painted traditional West African cultures Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay City K “I Am Still Alive: Politics and between 1913 and 1928 at –bracelets, bells and other cast - Sage and Yves Tanguy” (Sept. 18) Everyday Life in Contemporary Corrymore, his home on Achell ings–and their relation to Western Surrealist paintings by each artist, Drawing” (Sept. 19) Artists comment Island. K “Attitude and Alchemy: The displays of wealth. dating from 1937-1958 during the on the world around them, highlight - Metalwork of Gary Noffke” (Sept. period of their marriage, exhibited for ing their place within it, or attest to 11) A retrospective of this dean of Michener Art Museum , Doylestown the first time together. the conflicts and politics in everyday metalsmiths: jewelry, hollowware, K “So Bravely and So Well: The Life life. K “Francis Alÿs: A Story of and flatware that explores surface, and Art of William T. Trego” (Oct. 2) Bard Graduate Center , New York K Deception” (Aug. 1) Works that form, and function. Dramatic, highly detailed battle City “Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010” explore the social realities of political scenes from the American Civil war (July 31) The individuals and ideas concepts through video, paint, per - Gregg Museum of Art & Design , and the Franco-Prussian War by a that helped the company become a formance, drawing, and photography. North Carolina State University, severely handicapped painter. K trend setter. K At PS1 : “Ryan Trecartin: Any Raleigh K “Then…Absence–After “Making It Better: Folk Arts in Ever” (Sept 3) Sculptural theater Guggenheim Museum , New York Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward” Pennsylvania” (Aug. 28) From every K installations: seven autonomous but (Aug. 13) Photographs showing the corner of the state, contemporary City “The Hugo Boss Prize 2010: interrelated videos structured as a dip - Hans-Peter Feldmann” (Sept. 5) The vestiges of a working-class communi - crafts rooted in centuries-old prac - tych with Trill-ogy Comp (three ty. K “Renaldo in the Land of tices: African dance masks, Native result of decades of the artist’s inves - movies) as one section and Re’Search tigation into the influence of the visu - Rocaterrania” (Sept. 3) First public American clay flutes, Pysanky eggs, Wait’S (four movies) as the other. showing of drawings and models of blacksmith work, woodcarving, al environment on our subjective real - Taken together, the videos elaborate ity. K “Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity” an imaginary country, Rocaterrania, Vietnamese funerary portraits, and poetic, formal, and structural forms of made over a period of 60 years, tak - more. K “Transmutation and (Sept. 28) First U.S. retrospective new technologies. charts the creation of a visual, con - ing the nation through empresses, Metamorphosis: The Collages of Ann ceptual, and theoretical language that czars, dictators, and premieres to its Irwin” (Oct. 16) Several decades of Loeb Art Center , Vassar College, final stages of fascist individualism. highly detailed work in which the has expanded the possibilities for Poughkeepsie K “A Taste for the sculpture and painting. unexpected prevails and the common - Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Ohio place is transformed. Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Akron Art Museum K “The Dorothy International Center of Schwab, and Virginia Herrick K Photography , New York City K and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Erie Art Museum , Erie “Archaic Deknatel” (Sept. 4) Vassar graduates, Works for Ohio” (Oct. 16) Minimalist Revival: Works by Gary Spinosa” 7 James Montgomery Flagg, Together We Win , 1916-18. Lithograph on paper on masonite. In “Working on the Homefront,” Tweed Museum of Art, MN summer VIEWS continued (Aug. 28) Sculptural works that industrial paint, adorned with com - Collection” One of the largest sur - forging local connections to the reflect the rituals of African and mercial logos, smashed, and/or veys of poster art held in Nashville in global community. Asian cultures and the artist’s ground into powder. Also on view: an recent years; “10 West Coast Artists” response to the natural world. installation of thousands (millions?) A portfolio of lithographs published Virginia of porcelain sunflower seeds weigh - in 1967 by a diverse group of artists Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk Westmoreland Museum of ing a ton and made by workers in a who were beginning to receive inter - K “Curious George Saves the Day: American Art , Greensburg K town that has produced porcelain for national notice for their paintings, The Art of Margret and H.A. Rey” Through Sept. 4: “They Practice 1,700 years. K “Anne Wilson: Local sculpture, prints, ceramics, and films, (Sept. 18) Original drawings and What They Teach: Artist Faculty of Industry” (Aug. 7) First viewing of all with a West-Coast flavor: watercolors created to illustrate the the Carnegie Institute of Technology” the Local Industry Cloth , a 75’x9” Diebenkorn, Voulkos, and others well known children’s books. K (Sept. 4) Well known and less well textile created from donated fibers by Through July 31: “Contrast: known, all spent time between 1925 2,100 volunteers and 79 experienced Texas Interactive Work by Daniel Rozin” and 1950 teaching in the Department weavers; displayed alongside an Blanton Museum of Art , Austin K Digital works that respond to viewers of Fine Art at what is now Carnegie “Archive of Production” identifying “About Face: Portraiture as Subject” in real time; “The Civil War: Visual Mellon University; “Moments in all contributors. K “Kwang-Young (Sept. 4) From antiquity to today: Perspectives, Then and Now” Time: Paintings by Hubert J. Chun: Aggregations, new work” (Sept Dürer, Rembrandt, Ingres, Sargent, Photographs, paintings, sculpture, FitzGerald” Works in a variety 4) Individual miniscule triangular Rivera, Epstein, Berni, Neel, Close, and prints showing various aspects of of media represent the artist’s inter - Styrofoam shapes covered in Korean Henri, Warhol, Morimura, Muñox, the War; At the Norfolk History pretation of special moments. mulberry paper, grouped together Wiley, and others. Museum : “Standing on the Precipice creating a spectacular visual impact. . of Change: Race, Slavery, and the Philadelphia Art Alliance K Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth K Civil War in Hampton Roads” Through Aug. 21: “Robert Baines: A Dixon Gallery and Gardens , “Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Images and documents recall the Treasury of Evidence” Austrian gold - Memphis K “Jean-Louis Forain: Experiment, 1910–1912” (Aug. 21) roles of slavery and resistance in smith and jewelry artist’s first solo La Comédie Parisienne ” (Oct. 9) Paintings and works on paper con - causing the war, the steps taken exhibition; “Matthew Alden Price: Retrospective of Forain’s life and ceived and executed during one of toward freedom, and the social chal - Stills” Trained ceramic artist combines work, from the youthful and central the most fertile exchanges in the his - lenges of the war’s aftermath. K painting and ceramics, the culture of Impressionist of his early years to the tory of Western art; the works reveal Through Aug. 31: “Portraying a places (he lived between the U.S. and force of his latter-year Expressionist the pictorial game that played out Nation: American Portrait Korea) and time; “Chad Curtis: work. One of two exhibitions mount - between the two masters and led to Photography, 1850-2010” Who we Speculative Landscapes” Multimedia ed as the result of a partnership the invention of Analytic Cubism. K are, from daguerreotype to digital construction incorporates ceramics, between the Dixon and the Memphis “La Bella ” (summer) Titian’s Woman imagery; “American Masterpieces found objects, plants, and shelves. Brooks Museum of Art, both in a Blue Dress , loaned to the muse - from the Batten Collection” Homer, presented under the title “A um and on display for the summer Bierstadt, Benton, Glackens, Print Center , Philadelphia K “85th Very Impressionistic Summer.” months. Redfield, and others. Annual International Competition: Printmaking” (July 20) The oldest Memphis Brooks Museum of Art , Irving Art Center K “Genghis Washington juried exhibition of printmaking and Memphis K “Monet to Cézanne/ Kahn: The Exhibition” (Sept. 30) Henry Art Gallery , University of photography in the U.S. features Cassatt to Sargent: The Impressionist Artifacts (gold jewelry, weaponry, Washington, Seattle K “The Talent works by some of the world’s finest Revolution” (Oct. 9) A survey of the silk robes, currency, tomb treasures, a Show” (Aug. 21) An examination of contemporary artists. spread of Impressionism from its mummy, and more) tell the story of the relationships between artists, beginnings in Paris to becoming the Genghis Kahn from an impoverished audiences, and individuals and their South Carolina dominant aesthetic of its age: Monet, childhood to world conqueror. conflicted desires for notoriety and Charleston Museum K “Threads of Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Cézanne, privacy. K “The Digital Eye: War: Clothing and Textiles of the Sargent, Hassam, and many more. Ellen Noël Art Museum , Odessa K Photographic Art in the Electronic Civil War” (Sept. 5) In the new tex - One of the two exhibitions, created “Expressions of Character” (Aug. 28) Age” (Sept. 25) The inventive use of tile gallery: a look into the lives of through a partnership between the Portrait paintings. K “Form & digital photography for an aesthetic those left on the home front: cloth - Memphis Brooks and the Dixon Substance: The Art of George tool, a platform for investigating new ing, uniforms and accessories, quilts, Gallery and Gardens, which celebrate Tobolowsky” (Sept. 11) Indoor and photographic practices, a vehicle for coverlets and flags, magazines, news - “A Very Impressionistic Summer.” outdoor sculptures fashioned out of social/political critique, or as a sub - papers, daguerreotypes, and diaries. oilfield scrap metals, welded stainless ject in and of itself. K “David Frist Center for the Visual Arts , steel, and paint. K “Watercolor Herbert: Open Studio” (Oct. 9) Greenville County Museum of Art Nashville K Through Sept. 11: Horizons” (Sept. 16-Oct. 16) Works Eccentric sculptural installation made K “Andrew Wyeth: The Greenville “Vesna Pavkivu c´”: Projected by regional artists in a juried from everyday materials. Collection” (Sept. 18) Andrew and Histories” (Sept. 11) Photographs of exhibition. watercolors by others who followed architectural interiors, tourist sites, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian in his tradition. K “Mary Whyte: and cultural events in the U.S. and McNay Art Museum , San Antonio Pacific American Experience , Working South” (Sept. 18) Serbia, taken over the past 13 years; K “George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Seattle K “Cultural Confluence: Watercolors, the result of a 3 1/2 -year “Warhol Live: Music in Dance in Designer, Teacher” (Sept. 11) Iconic Urban People of Asian and Native trek through Southern states making Andy Warhol’s Work” Two essential designers output: benches, cabinets, American Heritages” (Sept. 18) A studies of out-of-work people. elements in the oeuvre presented in chairs, clocks, desks, lamps, draw - mix of contemporary art, new media, ten major sections: Hollywood; ings, photographs, architectural mod - and story-telling that casts light on South Dakota Classical Taste; Andy’s Jukebox; els, and films. K “Burgoyne Diller: what it means to be native in the city, Dahl Arts Center , Rapid City K Warhol and the Avant-Garde; The Abstract Pioneer” (Aug. 28) Works away from tribal reservations and “Making New Traditions” (Sept. 3) Silver Factory, 1964-1968; Producer: inspired by Mondrian by one of the ancestral homes. Newly created work by Native Andy Warhol and the Velvet first nonrepresentational American American artists from throughout Underground; Exploding Plastic artists. K “A Fine Line: The Wisconsin the northern plains. Inevitable; Fame; Ladies and Woodcuts of Jon Lee” (Sept. 18) Woodson Art Museum , Wausau K Gentlemen, Mick Jagger!; and Series of woodcuts based on the Through Aug. 28: “Iron: Twenty Tennessee Warhol Nightclubber. K “Gather Up golden mean–the mathematically Ten–New Work by American Knoxville Museum of Art K “Ai the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker determined perfect ratio. Blacksmiths” Abstract and represen - Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Collection” (Aug. 21) Furniture, tational sculpture, vessels, architec - Works, 5000 BCE-2010 CE)” (Aug. drawings, household objects, textiles, Utah tural ironwork, fire screens furniture, 7) The first solo showing in the U.S. baskets, kitchen implements. Utah Museum of Fine Arts , and more, utilizing both traditional (outside New York) of works by this University of Utah, Salt Lake City K and innovative approaches; “Ax most famous of China’s contempo - Fine Arts Gallery , Vanderbilt “sale 3: Cyprien Gaillard” (Aug. 21) Lore: Historic Tools from the John rary artists, which both celebrate and University, Nashville K Through Third in a series of exhibitions high - and Brenda Henson Collection” K call into question Chinese culture and Aug. 13: “Fit to Print: Contemporary lighting the work of contemporary history: ceramic objects, including Poster Art from the Vanderbilt artists from around the world, very ancient ones are dipped into University Fine Arts Gallery 8 Two-headed Animal Power Figure . Wood, metal, pigment, textile, fibers, organic materials. In “Power Incarnate,” Bruce Museum, CT Groups Unify continued from page 1 Notes About Artists individual artists and other venues benefit from the The Mystery The books in question are: collaboration. The seven partners play an essential of Michelangelo Michelangelo: The Artist, The Man and role in leading the effort to bring more visitors into H•is Times , William Wallace, Cambridge the downtown area and, in turn, to further econom - Adding to the mountain of literature on University Press. ic prosperity and artistic advancement. In addition, Michelangelo are five new biographies, each • Der Göttliche: das Leben des the partnership provides a powerful singular voice presenting its author’s singular version of the Michelangelo , Volker Reinhardt, Verlag C.H. for Lancaster City arts –a voice that speaks of the artist’s persona. Put together they result in a Beck. City of Lancaster as a treasure trove of the arts. K muddle of uncertainty. Michelangelo: A Tormented Life, Antonio William Wallace, a university professor in F•orcellino, Polity. [Stanley Grand, Ph.D. is Executive Director St. Louis, and Volker Reinhardt, in Fribourg, The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo of the Lancaster Museum of Art; Wendy Nagle both draw on contemporary documents. Each • is Executive Director of the Heritage Center of and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Lancaster County] paints the maestro not as the isolated, tor - Renaissance , Jonathan Jones, Simon and tured genius of common theory, but as an Schuster. enthusiastic and devoted family man whose Michelangelo: A Life on Paper , Leonard Lying in Wait continued from page 3 congeniality included not only members of •Barkan, Princeton University Press. his household, but also his many friends who drawings at the Yale Center for British Art, spoke ranged from his workplace entourage to the [Carol Piazzotta, curator of 16th-century about multiple exhibition projects examining the Bolognese intellectual elite. Italian Painting at the National Gallery in British Empire. Mining the many corners of the Restorer Antonio Forcellino, in contrast, London, reviewed all five books in the center’s collection and the school’s various disci - pictures Michelangelo as isolated and tor - February issue of The Art Newspaper. ] plines, the shows’ preparation and outreach pro - mented, a tragic person whose financial deal - Surrealists grams consciously sought collaboration with local ings indicate “overarch - audiences in New Haven and museums in the for - ing greed” and “shame - Together: mer colonies, new relationships for all. Important in less opportunism” com - Tanguy & Sage bined with abject miserli - these projects is that each has a growing afterlife U that contributes to the interpretation of the collec - ness. Wallace’s view of ntil his death in 1955, tion in the galleries, and actively seeks to keep the Michelangelo’s financial Yves Tanguy lived inseparably new audiences engaged. status, on the other hand, with his wife Kay Sage, sharing Marilyn Kushner, curator and head of the is that the man was a studio in Woodbury (CT), Department of Prints, Photographs, and “more negligent than dis - where they communicated only Architectural Collections at the New York Historical honest.” in French. Despite their intima - Society, described several exhibitions she is devel - An art critic for the cy during a 15-year marriage, oping using her photo collections, some of which Guardian , Jonathan the two never wanted to be have not been examined since they were Jones focuses on the so- known as a “team,” nor did catalogued years ago. The society’s permanent called animus between they want their work to be collection is so vast (the museum is quite old by Michelangelo and shown together. Over time one American standards) that permanent collection Leonardo da Vinci in influenced the other in one way programming is its hallmark. These exhibitions help connection with the com - or another: at first, Tanguy, a the institution to develop a keener sense of its iden - mission to paint battle more seasoned painter, pointed tity and its service, its past and present, so it can scenes on the walls of the Sage in the direction of the geo - better plan for its tomorrow. Great Council Hall in the metric imagery that became her Nadine Orenstein, curator in the Department of Palazzo Vecchio in hallmark; eventually, Tanguy Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Florence. Although he made compositional shifts, adopted muted Art, gave us a preview of an upcoming exhibition believes Michelangelo respected his more colors, and introduced a dominant figure, of drawn and printed caricatures from Leonardo to senior colleague, nevertheless clashing per - hitherto unknown Hirschfeld. This exhibition was developed as part of sonalities caused what Jones advertises as in his paintings. an institution-wide directive to mine the collection; “the duel that defined the Renaissance.” In Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) was born in her survey formed the core of a show that would fact, Vasari, some 500 years earlier (his first Paris and spent much of his childhood on the include ancient Greek sculpture, Asian objects, and Life was written in 1550 during Brittany coast at Locronon, where the land - decorative art. At the end of her talk, she stressed to Michelangelo’s lifetime) confirmed the view scape contained the prehistoric Celtic rock the assembled directors that their curators’ time with of their mutual “disdain.” formations that influenced his work. It was and access to their collections is central to the suc - Leonard Barkan, professor of comparative Tanguy’s desert-like scenes, melding the land cess of these visions. literature at Princeton, from his favored and sky, which Andre Breton saw as the most Edward Papenfuse, Maryland State archivist and Freudian point of reference, examines the poetic of Surrealist painting. Commissioner of Land Patents, marveled about a artist’s letters and jottings in conjunction with Kay Sage (1898-1963), born in upstate recent acquisition of the archives –George his images, with the result that New York and raised in Italy, began painting Washington’s personal copy of his 1783 resignation Michelangelo’s mind becomes, more or less, professionally in the mid-1930s. She created an open book. Writings show how his artistic speech. In the context of this treasure, he explored what is considered by many as the most geo - our professional and moral obligation to use our life was inextricably intertwined with his everyday existence which, says Barkan, he metrically-oriented imagery in Surrealism. collections to make the events of the past germane Tanguy was among several French artists for for the generations of today and ran like an efficient entrepreneur. Michelangelo’s studio, as whom Sage arranged refuge in the United tomorrow. Furthermore, we need to States following the outbreak of World War be ever vigilant of the identity of our revealed in doodles, random II; the artists were married in 1940 and spent evolving audience, and why and how notes, bills, to-do lists, etc., was a social place where those who the rest of their lives painting together in a new acquisition should matter to K them. K came there to buy, to work, or to their farmhouse studio in Connecticut. learn, all interacted with him. [Joseph Ruzicka is a former museum From Barkan’s investigations, [Information supplied by the Katonah curator and director. Currently he is Michelangelo emerges as more Museum of Art (NY)] a member of the advisory board of gregarious and less isolated than the Art Museum Partnership.] previously thought, but still, as intensely private, always return - Above: Edward Weston, Shell , 1927. Gelatin silver print. In “Edward Weston,” Monterey Museum of Art, CA Right: Burton Silverman, Study in Black & White , ing to his own inner conflicts. 2006. Oil on panel. In “Burton Silverman,” Hofstra University Museum, NY 9 NEWS briefs

New dance initiative deer hides, dog bane rope making. and various Gibbes Announces other 18th-cantury crafts, as well as hunting, at the MMoA trapping, and fishing. Museum archaeologists Factor Winner The premiere was sold out. For the first time show local finds and are on hand to identify The Gibbes Museum of Art (SC) announced ever, a museum, the Metropolitan Museum of artifacts brought in by visitors. the 2011 winner of the fourth annual Factor Art (NY), commissioned a dance choreogra - Prize for Southern Art, which is awarded annu - pher to create a site-specific work for one of its DesignPhiladelphia 2011 ally, with a cash prize of $10,000, to the artist sculpture galleries. Shen Wei, one of the chore - From October 13-23 The Philadelphia region whose work demonstrates the highest level of ographers for the opening ceremonies at the hosts the 7th annual DesignPhiladelphia in artistic achievement in any media while con - 2008 Beijing summer Olympics, dancer, and coordination with National Design Week. The tributing to a new understanding of art in the artist was awarded the task of designing a largest design celebration in the country, it South. Artists who reside, work in, or are dance piece inspired by sculptures in the showcases the city, past and present, with more native to Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Charles Engelhard Court in than 150 events –lectures, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South the American Wing. His exhibitions, street happen - Carolina, Tennessee, or Virginia are eligible. composition, called Still ings, workshops, open Patrick Dougherty was named the 2011 winner. Moving , juxtaposes bodies studios, and public A sculptor from North Carolina, Dougherty in motion with the still forums –that galvanize the creates site-specific installations from twigs bodies of sculpture. It is creative community of and branches woven together and held in place set to electronic music and graphic and fashion by tension. features imaginative cos - designers, urban planners tuming and projections – and architects, interior New Building performance and visual art designs, and multi- Opens Doors to Dalí combined to create a new media developers. form of exhibition. July 15 was the deadline Joyous celebrations in St. Petersburg, The event was part of the for program applications. Florida, accompanied the opening of a major museum concert series new building put there to house the world’s which, for many years has Access to second largest collection of works by Salvador presented performances in British Art Dalí. Designed by the French-American archi - many of its galleries. But tect Yann Weymouth of HOK architects, the Still Moving , is the first Offered Online building features a dramatic central staircase and lava flow-like glazing on the exterior that work commissioned specifi - The Yale Center for cally for one of its spaces starts on the roof and wraps around the struc - British Art (CT) ture, echoing the glass dome at Dalí’s theater- and the works of art in it: Coursaget, Pablo Picasso with The Aficionado in launched a new online marble and bronze figurative Sorgues, France , 1912. Photograph. In “Picasso and Museum in Spain. Braque,” Kimbell Art Museum, TX catalogue and redesigned works by Powers, Saint- website, one of the broad - NMAL Commission Gaudens, Frishmuth, est and most far-reaching projects in the cen - Manship, among others. ter’s history. Highlights include: Submits Report Promos that Help to Attract An online catalogue, allowing seamless In May, the National Museum of the s•earching across paintings, sculpture, prints, American Latino Commission, together with the Uninitiated drawings, rare books, manuscripts, and library Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and bipar - The Charles Allis Art Museum of Art materials. tisan members of Congress, submitted its final (WI) runs “Who Dunnit?”, a self-paced game • High-resolution images of all art objects report to the Congress and to the President. in the form of a murder mystery, played in the in the public domain available for free Authored by 23 members of the commission historic Charles Allis Mansion. Participants are downloading. established by Congress, the report provides asked to follow the clues and solve the murder • An associated exhibition, “Connections” the findings and recommendations for the for chances to win a Grand Prize with a pack - (Sept. 11) including more than 200 objects potential creation of a National Museum of the age value of $350; first prize, $250; second and from the center’s collections. American Latino in Washington, D.C. The third, $175. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres are The online launch dovetails with Yale report also reflects the input from eight public served with live music and a cash bar. University’s recently announced “Open forums held across the country to engage com - A fundraiser that began in 1994 at the Access” policy, the first of its kind among Ivy munities in the study. American Labor Museum/Botto House League universities, which makes high-quality National Landmark (NJ), “Silk Walk” is digital images of Yale’s cultural heritage New Initiative Studies designed to sell engraved bricks for placement collections in the public domain openly Urban Possibilities at the landmark's front walkway and under its and freely available. The Museum of Modern Art and MoMa grape arbor. Funds collected from the project New York Art Fair 2012 PS1 (NY) announced a 14-month initiative to are used for the museum’s operating expenses examine new architectural possibilities for and educational programs. Bricks are priced Confirmed American cities and suburbs in the context of from $50 to $200. The organizers of London’s Frieze Art Fair the recent foreclosure crisis in the United Fifteen Connecticut museums have joined have confirmed that they will open a New York States. “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American the Connecticut Art Trail initiative: pay $25 to event in 2012 in the park on Randall’s Island. Dream” will enlist five interdisciplinary teams purchase a pass to all of 15 museums and The fair will coincide with New York’s con - of architects to envision new housing and relat - historic sites for a two-month period of your temporary auction week (May 3-6). ed infrastructures that could serve as a catalyst choosing. By visiting www.artrail.org , an The fair will feature some 170 galleries, to urban transformation, particularly in the sub - explorer can get information on member muse - including a section devoted to the younger urbs. The teams will participate in a four-month ums, lodging packages, and the new Trail galleries, all housed in a huge tent designed workshop phase (it began in May), each team Getaway itineraries. by Brooklyn-based architects SO-IL. concentrating on a specific “megaregion,” a The Iroquois Indian Museum (NY) holds metropolitan area that lies within a corridor an Early Technology Day at the end of April. between two major cities. The resulting propos - Defining early technology as: flint knapping, als will be exhibited at atl-atl shoot, brain-tanning and smoke curing of Continued on page 11 10 NNEEWWSS bbrriieeffss continued from page 10

MoMA, February-July, 2012. lution of 1956. The final 56 works “represent “The foreclosure crisis has led to a major loss one of the most pivotal times in American of confidence in the suburban dream of single- music,” say the organizers of the contest. These family houses on private lots reachable only by finalists were selected by a group from the car,” said Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s chief cura - Memphis Brooks Museum of Art , the tor of architecture and design. “New paradigms Memphis Dixon Gallery and Gardens , and of architecture, and regional and transportation Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. The grand prize, planning, could well be the silver lining in the awarded to the most “Likes” on the Web, is crisis of home ownership. This has hit especial - valued at over $7,500. ly hard in suburbs. It is here, rather than in the next ring of potential sprawl, where architects, Guggenheim Opens Lab landscape designers, artists, ecologists, and in NYC elected officials need to rethink reshaping urban America for the coming decades.” On August 3 in New York City’s Lower East Side, The BMW Guggenheim Lab, an urban Art + Environment think tank and mobile laboratory, begins a jour - ney that will continue in Berlin in the spring/ Conference in Nevada summer of 20 12 . Its purpose: to explore issues On the eve of its 80th birthday, the Nevada confronting contemporary cities and provide a Museum of Art announces the second Art + public place and online forum for sharing ideas Environment Conference, a flagship program and practical solutions. Over a six-year migra - of the museum’s Center for Art + Environment tion of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, there will that brings together artists, scholars, designers, be three different themes and three distinct Takeover Announced and writers in Reno from Sept. 29-Oct 1. It mobile structures, each designed by a different The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY) reaches across continents, disciplines, and architect and each traveling to three cities and the Whitney Museum of American Art media to unite a group of thinkers who shape around the world. The inaugural lab in New (NY) announced an eight-year, extendable, ideas about human interactions with global York, designed by Atelier Bow-Wow, and partnership that will see the Metropolitan take environments. architecture studio in Tokyo, is a compact tem - over the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer building on Saith William L. Fox, director of the center, porary facility of about 2,500 square feet and Madison Avenue after it moves downtown in “The Center for Art + Environment was fits easily into densely built neighborhoods as 2015. The agreement is not a sale; rather the designed as a research center dedicated to it is transported from city to city. Met will cover operating costs and provide encouraging the creation of artworks express - The first cycle will conclude with a special programming, including “exhibitions, lectures, ing the interaction between people and their exhibition at the the Guggenheim Museum and gallery tours that present and interpret both environments; to convene artists, scholars, and (NY) in 2013. contemporary and historical art,” according to communities to document, research, and ana - the press release. lyze such artworks; and to increase public Press-time Report The Whitney, which has broken ground on knowledge of these creative and scholarly on Ai Weiwei its new Renzo Piano-designed building in the endeavors.” Meatpacking District of Lower Manhattan, On June 22, 2011 it was reported that will retain space in the Madison Ave. building Car Museum to Open Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was freed on bail for storage and permanent site-specific Next Year after confinement in prison since April of this install ations such as Charles Simond’s year for “serious economic crimes.” The Dwellings , a miniature archaeological site LeMay-America’s Car Museum (Tacoma, release came at a time when the Chinese located in the stairwell. WA) comes with a nine-acre cam - pus and a four-story, 165-square- MoMA Buys AFAM foot museum as its hub. It will include a show field to host every - Building thing from vintage car events to Early in May, it was reported that the rock concerts and drive-in movies. American Folk Art Museum (NY) There will also be a gift shop, ban - would sell its building on West 53rd Street quet center and café, an education - to the Museum of Modern Art (NY), al center/library, and rotating also on West 53rd Street. In doing so, the exhibits using cars, music, film, Folk Art Museum “resolved its financial and photos for displays. Fifteen galleries will Communist Party celebrates its 90th anniver - challenges,” said Board President Laura house up to 500 cars, trucks, and motorcycles sary on July 1. The party frequently releases Parsons. from private owners, corporations, and the dissidents before high profile state events. The museum’s other space on the West side LeMay collection. The state newspaper Xinhua reported that Ai of Manhattan, across the street from Lincoln Meanwhile, in May, the museum’s 1927 had confessed to “crimes” of tax evasion and Center, although smaller, is included in plans LaSalle 303 Roadster was entered in Italy’s was cooperating with the authorities. According to “energize and explore collaborative exhibi - famous Mille Miglia, the vintage card road to the report, police said Ai’s company, Beijing tion opportunities.” rally that winds from Brescia to Rome and Fake Cultural Development Ltd, “was found to back. have evaded a huge amount of taxes and inten - Smithsonian Museum Day tionally destroyed accounting documents.” His Finalists Selected for family has denied these accusations. For the seventh time, the Smithsonian News reports added that the artist was in Magazine is holding its annual Museum Day Elvis Prize ill health—he takes regular medication and (Sept. 24). During that day, museum partners Elvis fans were invited by Elvis Presley has high blood pressure and diabetes. After his in all 50 states are invited to simulate the free Enterprises, in celebration of the 55th anniver - release Ai said, “I’m fine. I’m very happy to be admission policy of the Smithsonian Insti- sary of its inception, to don their smocks and free and I’m very happy to be back with my tution ’s Washington, D.C.-based facilities by berets, pick up their brushes or cameras, and family,” but said he could not discuss any opening their doors free of charge to anyone details. who downloads the Museum Day admission create works of art that symbolize Elvis’ revo - Continued on back page Top right: Lean-Louis Forain, The Members Enclosure, or the Elegant Ladies at the Racetrack , 1884. Colored stained glass. In Jean-Louis Forain,” Dixon Gallery & Gardens, TN Center: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn , 1995. In “Ai Weiwei | Interlacing,” Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich. 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