museu mVIEWS A quarterly newsletter for small and mid-sized art museums Summer 2010 PICASSO looks at DEGAS The following is a sampling from the introduc - fame Throughout his life Pablo Picasso was fas - tion and a chapter of this engaging study. increased…. cinated with the life and work of Edgar Degas. “Picasso initially encountered works by “…Never He collected Degas’s pictures, re-interpreted Degas and his peers in black-and-white illus - straightfor - ardly his subject matter, and created scenes that trations, and only began to see their original w included images of Degas himself. “Picasso pastels and paintings when he visited Paris imitative, Looks at Degas,” the summer exhibition at the several times from 1900 onward. Dating from Picasso’s Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in this moment are his first tentative gestures response to Degas was mercurial and competi - Williamstown (MA), brings together more than toward some of Degas’s signature themes: the tive, always involving an element of willful 100 works that shed light on the relationship cabaret singer, the prostitute, and, as Fagus transformation and sometimes bordering on between the two who, in fact, never met. “Yet indicated, racecourses, female nudes, and parody or pastiche. A parallel narrative… the café habitués, stage performers, bathers, dancers. After settling in Montmartre in 1904, concerns the gradually revealed affinity and ballerinas that Degas typically depicted Picasso became acquainted with several people between these two artists as professionals and also appear repeatedly in Picasso’s images, and who knew Degas, including the dealer as human beings, an affinity that Picasso was Degas the man appears in person in a substan - Ambroise Vollard, who briefly represented surely aware of. In their youth, for example, tial series of etchings Picasso made in 1971,” both artists, and Benedetta Canals, who mod - both had experienced a traditional training writes Michael Conforti, director of the Clark. eled for them both. Although the two men dominated by the practice of drawing from the The exhibition explores Picasso’s response seem never to have met, Picasso was well human figure and by reverence for great works to Degas’s work by pairing paintings and aware that Degas lived and worked very close of art from the past. Not coincidentally, Degas groups of works that express the younger to the Bateau Lavoi, the squalid artists’ colony and Picasso subsequently emerged as the finest man’s admiration of the master: Degas’s In a where he painted some of his most important draftsmen of their respective generations— Café (L’Absinthe ) with Picasso’s Portrait of early pictures. Here the young Spaniard some would say of all time—who continued to Sebastià Junyer I Vidal ; Picasso’s the Blue brazenly confronted Degas in his art, portray - place drawing at the center of their creative Room with Degas’s monotype The Tub ; ing laundresses, bohemians in cafés, entertain - endeavors throughout their long careers. The Picasso’s Portrait of Benedetta Canals with ers in mid-performance, and naked women female body, too, remained a persistant and Degas’s Woman with an Umbrella . bathing and combing their hair—all subjects often obsessive concern for both men, ruling This innovative concept for an exhibition that were very publicly associated with Degas. over their oeuvres in all media. For the reput - came to fruition through the efforts and expertise Here, too, Picasso experimented with sculpture edly celibate Degas, this fascination was most of two curators—Elizabeth Cowling and and prints, sometimes with explicit references famously expressed in his scenes of ballet Richard Kendall—whose illuminating essays to works by his French predecessor, activities dancers in their classrooms and in pictures and sculptures of intimate fill the pages of the accompanying catalogue. he would return to over the decades as his continued on page 4 MUSEUM STUDIES: Training the New Professioonals by Annette B. Fromm masters’ degrees. I realized this as I was inter - be in a relevant academic discipline to prepare viewed, but not hired—many times. As fruitless the candidate for intense research in a given How do young people prepare for as the effort seemed at the time, I learned a lot: subject? Or should the degree earned be in careers working in museums these I made some professional connections along the museum studies? If his/her focus is museum days? What can they do and what do they actual - way and saw a gaggle of museums. I never studies, should a candidate pursue a complete ly do in museums? How did they prepare in the explored the educational backgrounds of the degree or a certificate—a concentration of past? And how are we preparing them today? education or exhibits staffs, but I do know that very directed courses? one of the curators with only a bachelor’s Not all those engaged in the field of training A Personal Narrative degree still works there doing what I’m future museum professionals share the same When I started in my first museum job, I had sure is a great job. answers to these questions. Work in museums just earned a master’s degree in folklore from requires individuals who have successfully Indiana University. Knowing I wanted to go into The Big Picture completed a multidisciplinary academic pro - museum work I enrolled in all of the museum So how do today’s muse - gram. This point is agreed upon by most in studies courses offered as electives. In fulfillment ums recruit and hire staff? the training end of the profession. A review of of the requirements, I even completed an intern - How do emerging profes - the literature of the Museum Studies industry— ship in the campus anthropology museum. Then, sionals acquire at least the the academic preparation of museum workers— I landed a job at a large, well established basic training to cut their from the 70s, when I entered the profession, Midwestern museum. I was thrown feet first into teeth as I did in the formative to the present shows a curious repetition of certain themes. collections work with the responsibility of cata - and memorable first job experi - loging a huge backlog of donations. Two of the ence? I prefer to pose some ques - There is basic agreement about the nature of long-time curators working there had earned tions here and invite readers, based museum studies programs and coursework. The most desirable program should be at an accred - bachelor’s degrees in history some years earlier, on their experience and knowledge, found museum jobs, and there they stayed. They to reach their own conclusions. ited university that’s close to an accredited taught me a lot about the job and the profession. Should the most qualified candidate museum. Students at a well-rounded college or It didn’t take long for me to realize that one have an undergraduate or a gradu - university benefit from access to the widest goal of a head of collections is to bring individu - ate education? Should that degree range of courses in preparing for their careers. als into the department who had completed their At the museum, students can continued on page 4

Top: Pablo Picasso, Crazy Woman with Cats , 1901. Oil on pulp board./Edgar Degas, The Tub , 1885. Pastel. Both in “Picasso Looks at Degas,” Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, MA Above: Emile-Louis Picault, Le Pensée , c. 1890. Bronze. In “Wonderful & Curious,” Cornell Fine Arts Museum, FL MUSEUM ADVOCACY: [The following talks were given on Museum how you can be helpful is a natural outgrowth keep your museum on their minds (send press Advocacy Day and were reprinted in the of developing relationships with your legisla - releases, emails, newsletters); where appropri - Newsletter of the Association of Midwest tors and with staff members. For example, con - ate, draw a connection between the legislator’s Museums] sider opportunities that will put your legislators work and your initiatives, stay open-minded in the spotlight, especially conscious of sharing about your museum’s impact, remembering that Five Good Habits time-sensitive or breaking news, whenever pos - it is more than just art for art’s sake. sible and as appropriate. For example, legisla - for Effective Advocacy tors shouldn’t read important news about your Invite: Invite legislators to your museum and not by Kathy Kelsey Foley institution in the newspaper; you want to be the one to provide a heads-up. only to opening events (teacher professional development workshops, family classes, public Good Habit #1: Good Habit #4: lectures, behind the scenes tour); be sure you Say thank you. Say it as often as possible Say thank you again! Remember to say put them in touch with real staff and real people and mean it. Say thank you not only when you please, too. Hand-written notes are still mean - (notify your staff first; don’t surprise them). get something you want, but just because your ingful, perhaps even more so today with our legislator or a staff member has taken the time reliance on electronic communication. Network: to talk, listen, etc. Don’t take legislators or staff Courtesies do count. Always be sincere. You never know who you’re going to see or members for granted. Say thank you! where you’re going to see them, so get yourself [Kathy Kelsey Foley is director of the Woodson out into your community, politcal/policy/social Good Habit #2: Art Museum, Wausau, WI] —lunch at the Capitol cafeteria, welcome-back- Develop relationships. People do things for legislator events, policy briefings, breakfast people. Get to know your legislators at the series, relevant lectures at the local university, local, state, and federal levels as well as their Five Good Tips to etc. This might seem harder if you’re not in staff members. It’s important to develop good Cultivate Relationships a capital city, but always remember that all working relationships at all levels, because you politics is local! Two caveats: don’t “work” don’t know if an alderman has sights on the for Effective Advocacy the bars, and be strategic in your choices so state legislature or if the state senator quests for you don’t get burned out. the governor’s mansion, and so on. And, it’s not by Brenda Raney improbable that a key aide or chief-of-staff Collaborate: might someday seek an elected office. Accuracy Research: Partner with institutions and associations counts! Spell and pronounce names correctly It’s how to get started. But don’t stop there: with similar policy goals to mutually advance and if you don’t know, ask. Keep tabs on keep gathering more information, both political your agenda. This action helps you to do more changes and update your records regularly. This and, as appropriate, personal (i.e. keeping up with less, opens up funding opportunities, co- is especially important following elections. And with new committee membership, new staff advocating, potentially giving you an audience don’t forget to contact your legislators to offer members, where a son or daughter is going to with members outside your typical caucus. K your congratulations following elections. college) from all available sources (political publications, local papers, networking). [Brenda Raney is director of human resources Good Habit #3: at the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul] Ask what you can do. How can you, or your Inform: institution, be helpful or be of service. Asking Keep legislators and staff in the loop and

gation techniques on a newly designed website; Indian culture and language. They are based on and has promised a live interactive map and stories from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in PROMOs guide application for iPod users. Central Minnesota, and aim to address the state Artists on Location graduation standards that require coverage of For three days in June, Festival that Educates contributions of Minnesota American Indian the Guild of the Knoxville To celebrate an interactive children’s exhibi - tribes and communities. Museum of Art (TN) pre - tion, “Konnichiwa! Japanese Culture & Ukiyo-e,” More than a simple coloring activity, the kit sented “Artists on Location,” the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts serves to introduce students to Ojibwe culture, its fifth annual “paint-out” (MD) held a day-long festival with events and history, and arts; to honor the artist who created and sale. On the first two activities related to Japanese culture. One fea - the bag’s preprinted design; and to provide a days, more than 40 local and ture of the afternoon was a tea tasting canvas for artistic expression. They were regional artists came togeth - presented by the Lotus Tea Company with teas inspired by Ojibwe bandolier bags; their printed er to paint and photograph directly from Japan. Children tasters learned design matches that of a contemporary bag in downtown Knoxville and about the history, cultivation, processing, and created by a master beadworker from the the University of Tennessee proper way to brew and serve tea. To accompany Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Gardens. The public was invited to watch. On the the tea tasting, an origami workshop was held continued on page 12 third day, the resulting works were displayed for for children ages 6 to 15. Later, a master callig - sale inside the museum; refreshments supplied rapher demonstrated traditional Japanese museu mVIEWS by local eateries were accompaniments to the calligraphy, followed by a public reception with cash bar. Cash awards were presented by an traditional Japanese treats and a guided tour Editor: Lila Sherman independent juror. through the exhibition with National Japanese Publisher: Museum Views, Ltd. Society students from a nearby high school 2 Peter Cooper Road, New York, NY 10010 Coming Up explaining and discussing Japanese culture. Phone: 212-677-3415 Fax: 212-533-5227 The largest design festival in the nation— Email: [email protected]. Design Philadelphia—is scheduled to inaugu - Resource for Educators museum VIEWS is supported by grants from the rate its sixth annual program on October 7. The The Ojibwe Shoulder Bag Activity Kit Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation event is staged for the purpose of establishing educates students on native American culture. and Bloomberg. the region’s reputation as desirable for working, Kits are available to educators from the living, and playing. To that end, Design Education Outreach department at the museum VIEWS is published 4 times a year: Philadelphia has joined the University of the Minnesota Historical Society and the Winter (January 1), Spring ( April 1), Summer Arts (PA), host of this years extravaganza; has Minnesota Historical Society Press, both com - (July 1), and Fall (October 1), Deadlines for improved its web presence with advanced navi - mitted to celebrating and preserving American listings and art work are November 15, February 15, May 15, and August 15. 2 Above: Juan Batlle Planas, Tres Personajes (Three Characters ), 1941. Tempera. In “New Works for the Collection,” Blanton Museum of Art, TX INSURER RECOMMENDS NOTES ABOUT AN INSURANCE ARTIST New York insurer HUB International [Biographical sketch supplied by the Hyde Northeast recommends that certain actions Collection (NY) where “Andrew Wyeth: An be taken to protect works of art. For American Legend” will be on view through example: have the correct amount of September 5] coverage that takes into account security, ndrew Newell Wyeth was born in transportation, restoration, and warehous - A Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, in July of 1917, ing; inventory the collection digitally. the son of internationally known painter and In addition: illustrator N.C. Wyeth and his wife Carolyn Bockius Wyeth. Theirs was a creative family: FOR ART STORAGE: Henriette Wyeth Hurd, Carolyn Wyeth, and • All art should be raised at least four Andrew were painters; Ann Wyeth McCoy inches off the floor, whether in storage was a composer; and son Nathaniel was an or on display. engineer and inventor with many patents to • Where possible, all art in bins, on his credit. shelves, or in cabinets should be protected Andrew began his artistic training at age 15 by water detectors to divert water away in his father’s studio. That year, on one of his from the art. boyhood walks, he discovered the Chadds • All art storage should be protected by Ford farm of Karl and Anna Kuerner. smoke detectors connected to a central Intrigued by Kuerner, a German immigrant station. and WWI veteran, the two developed a close • All art storage should be protected relationship which led to Andrew’s life-long against burglary or theft by a central fascination with the many elements on the stations alarm with line security. ART PILFERAGE: farm: the people, animals, buildings, and landscapes became the subject matter of hundreds of works FOR ART DISPLAYS: • Museums, galleries, and collectors should produced over more than 75 years. take special precautions against art being The family spent summers in Maine: Andrew’s • Paintings should be protected with the smuggled out of an establishment, either early watercolors of his surroundings there, much use of Velcro in earthquake areas. through the main entrance or service influenced by Winslow Homer, were exhibited in • In earthquake areas, paintings should be entrance, or in trash bins or bags. 1937 at the William Macbeth Gallery in New York hung on special hooks, designed to resist City and met with great critical acclaim. But, yield - quake damage. DISPLAY PROTECTION: ing to his self-critical tendencies, he was not reas - • Valuable paintings should have 24-hour sured by his easily won success; he returned to his alarms, preferable hard wired, or at least con - • Steps should be taken consistently with father’s studio for more study. nected to the alarm system by remote control. the exhibition of art to prevent any parties from touching the art. Introduced by Peter Hurd to the Renaissance technique of working in egg tempera, Wyeth soon ALARMS: FLOOD: made this new medium his own. He explained that it • All alarm systems should have forced him to slow down the execution of a painting line security. • No art should be stored in a basement or and enabled him to achieve the textural effects that • Valuable collections should have backup lower floor area which is subject to flooding distinguish his work. He continued to work in water - alarm transmission facilities such as radios or other water hazards. color and dry brush watercolor. or cellular phones in addition to the basic In 1940, Wyeth married Betsy James, whom he transmission methods. BRUSH FIRES: had met in Maine. She introduced him to an old friend named Christina Olson; to Wyeth she typified • All alarm systems should have holdup Any art in any facility in a brush fire area • “old Maine.” Afterward, Olson became his model for or panic buttons. should be considered endangered. An emer - many of his works including Christina’s World . • All alarm systems should have duress codes. gency plan to remove the art at the first sign of a brush fire should be in place. Emergency More than 45 years later, in 1986, Wyeth HUMIDITY CONTROL: numbers for truckers and personnel should be unveiled a large collection of his paintings that fea - immediately available. tured another Chadds Ford neighbor, German immi - • Humidity controls should be installed where grant Helga Testorf. It was a sensational revelation. valuable arts are present. These controls sould The previously unknown paintings were first exhibit - be connected to a central stations alarm. STOLEN ART: ed In 1987 at the National Gallery of Art in • Immediate notice should be given in the Washington, D.C., and then at exhibitions through - event of a theft. out the world. • In addition to notifying the insurers, imme - During his lifetime he received countless awards, diate notice should be given to the police, the starting with John F. Kennedy’s naming him as the FBI (do not rely on local police to notify the first living artist to receive the Presidential Freedom FBI), and IFAR. Award in 1963. Others included the gold medal for • Pictures of the stolen art should be immedi - painting from the National Institute of Arts and ately provided to the police, FBI, IFAR, and Letters (1965); several painting and watercolor the insurance adjuster. awards and honorary degrees; induction into the • Inquiries should be made to the insurance French Academy of the Fine Arts (1977); elected adjuster, as to the advisability of a prompt honorary member of the Soviet Academy of the Arts reward being offered for information leading (1978); Congressional Gold Medal (1990); presented Left: Zoumana to the recovery. with the Maine in America Award by the Farnsworth Sane, Mami Wata , c. 1987. • Neither the museum, gallery, or collector Art Museum; and the National Medal of Arts (2007). Pigment, should make any effort to pay ransom for Wyeth died at his home in Chadds Ford in glass. In the item. K K “Mami Wata,” January 2009. Cantor Arts Center, CA

Top: Andew Wyeth, Turkey Pond , 1944. Tempera on panel. In “Andrew Wyeth,” Hyde Collection, NY 3 PICASSO LOOKS AT DEGAS ly try to paint like shown in parks or restaurants or in the artist’s continued from page 1 someone else. But the own studio. thing is, you can’t… “Degas’s career during the Impressionist bathing, while for the notoriously lustful You try. But it turns years had largely been built on this controver - Picasso, it took on the myriad shapes of life in out to be a botch…. sial material, leaving a rich, if circuitous, trail the studio or the home, private fantasy, and And it’s at the very of drawing, prints, pastels, and oil paintings antique reverie. moment you make a that was still visible in Paris in the early twen - “…As Picasso discovered when the contents botch of it that you’re tieth century. Always a of Degas’s studio were auctioned after his yourself.’ prolific artist, Degas death in 1917, canvases by El Greco, had exhibited his work Delacroix, and Ingres, among works by numer - “The story of frequently between the ous other artists in Degas’s personal collection, Picasso’s contact 1870s and 1890s, plac - signaled crucial shared allegiances, while his with the art of Degas ing pictures in leading unashamed reworking of compositions by during his early Paris collections and selling Titian, Rembrandt, and Ingres—to name but a visits is intricate and challenging…. major and minor works few—anticipated Picasso’s own absorptive Neither in these months nor at any through dealers to pri - approach. Indeed, beneath the surface the two time in his youth did Picasso comment vate individuals. The artists shared a common attitude to the rela - directly on his interest in Degas…. Yet challenge for a young tionship between ‘influence’—or more accu - Parisian critics identified Degas as one artist after 1900 was to rately ‘appropriation’—and personal expres - of the principal contemporary models make contact with sion; a statement on this subject made by behind the pictures that Picasso was now Degas’s art in a world Picasso might almost have come from Degas: making, a view that was repeatedly when the first books ‘What does it mean…for a painter to paint in endorsed by other witnesses. Subject and substantial articles the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate matter was a major indication: ‘the spectacle were only just beginning to appear….” K someone else? What’s wrong with that? On the of the street’ extended to the city’s night life Top: Pablo Picasso, Woman Ironin g, 1904. Oil on canvas. contrary, it’s a good idea. You should constant - and to depctions of local characters, whether Above: Edgar Degas, Women Ironing (detail) , 1884-86. Oil on canvas.

MUSEUM STUDIES continued from page 1 them are looking for a concentration of gradu - Starting a Program? ate-level courses that add to their overall knowl - acquire hands-on experience in “the trenches.” edge base and improve their chances on the job Since the 1970s numerous training pro - Museum work is, after all, not a theoretical pur - market. grams have emerged in the United States. There suit, but one which is intensely practical. Students in the FIU program are offered the are many sources of help for anyone starting a The program should also have a designated variety of courses outlined above. Three courses museum studies program and for those who coordinator or director who takes responsibility are required to complete the certificate: History want to enter the profession. Three particularly for the progress of the students. The coordinator and Philosophy of Museums; Museum Ethics, helpful websites provide valuable information and the faculty should bring with them substan - Policies, and Procedures; and a supervised and direction: the general GradSchools.com tial museum work experience along with appro - internship in one of the many museums in the website provides a listing of over 50 museum priate academic degrees. The necessity for the Miami area. Students seek internships which studies programs nationwide—see mix of education and work experience relates to best suit their desired career track. Interns have http://www.gradschools.com/search-pro - the ability to guide students through the rigors worked in the Miami Art Museum, the Museum grams/museum-studies. The Smithsonian of coursework. And, without experience, a of Contemporary Art, the Hollywood Art and Institution’s education department has for teacher cannot impart the rigors of a multi- Culture Center, HistoryMiami, Vizcaya many years served as a clearing house for phased practical process. Museum and Gardens, the collections depart - museum studies programs— ment of Everglades National Park, and the Frost http://museumstudies.si.edu/. Finally, the Curriculum Art Museum. They have worked in the area of Association of Academic Museums and The core curriculum for all future museum collections, exhibits, communications, develop - Galleries, formerly the Association of College professionals includes a number of basic topics: ment, and education, and in doing so have and University Museums and Galleries, also the history and philosophy of museums, how gained valuable hands-on experience to balance maintains a list of programs— they have evolved and what drives them; collec - their coursework. http://www.aamg-us.org/studies.html. Most of tions or education/interpretation; collections For their elective coursework, students can the member museums on this list are associated documentation and the responsibilities of the choose from four regularly offered museum with museum studies programs at their home registration department; curatorial responsibili - studies courses: Museum Education, institutions. ties; exhibition development; visitor studies and Registration Methods, Curatorial Practices, and Surely we have progressed from the 1970s evaluation; administration including coursework Exhibition Development. Adjunct faculty who when some thought that museums were the last in finance and grant proposal writing; and, not teach these courses all work in the local muse - resort for people who could not least of all, ethics. ums, bringing with them substantial profession - find work elsewhere, al experience in their given fields. while others deemed a “The Best of Both Worlds” Because of the many academic offerings of museum as a repository the university, students are encouraged to tailor Now, many years after working in collec - for musty old scholars their studies to best prepare themselves for a or inexperienced young tions at an independent museum, I find myself future in the museum profession. They have in what I consider to be the best of both worlds, ones. Today’s profession enrolled in such diverse courses as art history, requires a mix of a university museum. At the Patricia and Philip general history, art education, ethnohistory, and Frost Art Museum at Florida International academic and practical public administration for elective credit, giving training to produce real University (FIU) I coordinate a graduate certifi - them the type of preparation so necessary for a cate program in museum studies. Many students contributors to the museum life in museum work. Stephen Weil, author of world. K enrolled in the program are in pursuit of a grad - “The Ongoing Pursuit of Professional Status, uate degree in art, history, anthropology, educa - The Progress of Museum Work in America” [Annette B. Fromm is tion, or environmental studies. Other students (Museum News , 1988), wrote of the importance assistant professor, enter independently before or after pursuing a of the “diversity of knowledge and skills Coordinator Museum graduate degree. Some students in the program required within any particular museum” in his Studies at Florida are employed in local museums in an attempt to musings about the pursuit of professional status. International University] add to their credentials for advancement. All of

Einar & Jamex de la Torre, Killing the Inner Child . Blown glass, mixed media. In “Borderlandia,” Craft and Folk Art Museum, CA 4 summer VIEWS

Arizona native Hawaiian kapa cloth and District of Columbia Salina Art Center J Photographic: Museum of Northern Arizona , quilting in her textile pieces. Smithsonian American Art Anne Collier & Melanie Schiff” Flagstaff J “Walking in Harmony: Museum J “Christo and (Aug. 8) Portraiture, still lifes, The Life and Work of Cantor Arts Center , Stanford Jeanne-Claude: Running Fence” landscapes, and more. Lomawywesa Kichael Kabotie” University, Stanford J “William (Sept. 26) A documentation exhibit (Sept 12) The meshing of Hopi Trost Richards—True to Nature: of the vast installation in Sonoma Mulvane Art Museum , Topeka J traditions with myths and imagery Drawings, Watercolors and Oil and Marin Counties, created Through Sept. 19: “The Art of The from other cultures in paintings, Sketches at Stanford University” from 1972-76. Robot” Works by regional and prints, jewelry, and poetry. (Sept. 26) 19th-century landscape national artists in a variety of artist. J “Buildings on Paper: Smithsonian National Museum of media; “Literal Abstractions” California Architectural Drawings” (Oct. 17) African Art J “Paul Emmanuel Paintings and sculptures by University Art Museum , California Works by Frank Lloyd Wright and Transitions” (Aug. 22) South Kansan artist Stephen T. Johnson. State University, Long Beach J 19th-century French architect African artist explores moments of J Through Sept. 26: J “Sculptural “Resistance/Reactions: A Michael Victor Postolle. J “Rural and transition: film and works on paper. Installations by Joelle Ford: Goldberg Retrospective” (Aug 16) Urban Structures: Artists Attracted New Purpose for Mundane and Paintings and works on paper. to Architecture” (Oct. 31) Images Florida Discarded Objects; “Dali’s World: of ancient ruins, urban structures, Museum of Fine Arts , St. Prints by Salvador Dali” From Monterey Museum of Art J and country houses. J “Contem- Petersburg J Through Aug. 15: the museum’s permanent collec - “Ansel Adams: Portrait of porary Glass” (through Aug.) “Whistler, Hassam, and the tion; “The Bow Tie” Regional America” (Oct. 3) The rare Etching Revival” Prints from 1850- artists present their take on this showing of one of the few Colorado 1930; “Turmoil and Triumph: fashion accessory. Museum Sets—images chosen Museum of Outdoor Arts , American Works on Paper from the by Adams for use by museums Englewood J “Element House” World War II Era” Prints, draw - Ulrich Museum of Art , Wichita and art institutions. (Aug. 14) Architectural exhibit ings, watercolors, and posters by State University J “Art of Our showcasing the design of a modu - more than 50 artists working Time: Selections from the Ulrich Hearst Art Gallery , Saint Mary’s lar green home, drawings and between 1935 and 1945. Museum of Art” (Aug. 8) Modern College, Moraga J “Superbly models included. and contemporary artworks: paint - Independent: Early California Vero Beach Museum of Art J ings, photographs, video, sculp - Paintings by Annie Harmon, Mary Connecticut “Selected Works from the tures, and works on paper. DeNeale Morgan, and Marion Yale Center for British Art , New Permanent Collection” (Sept. 26) J Kavanagh Wachtel” (Sept. 19) A Haven “Structured Elegance: Paintings, prints, works on paper, Wichita Art Museum J “The look at early California landscape, Bookbindings and Jewelry by sculpture, glass, and photography. Secrecy Series: Selected Works” captured en plein air . Romilly Saumarez Smith” (Sept. J “Watercolors from the (Oct. 10) Industrial sculptural J 19). “Art for All: British Posters Permanent Collection” (July 25). installation dominated by metallic Palo Alto Art Center J Through for Transport” (Aug. 15) surfaces examines loss of privacy Sept. 5: “Dream Sequences” Promotional posters for the London Cornell Fine Arts Museum , Rollins and the power of secrets. J Narrative works by ceramicists; Underground and British Railways. College, Winter Park J Through “Western Imprints: Carving Out J “Surreal Reinventions” Works on “Seeing Double: Portraits, the summer: “Out of the Shadow” the western Landscape—Reduction paper that utilize historic materials; Copies, and Exhibitions in 1820s Women painters in 19th-century Woodblocks by Leon Loughridge” “Secret Drawings” Works created London” (Sept. 19) An 1829 paint - America; “Man and the Machine” The Western landscape from New by invited artists who have been ing (Interior of the British Propaganda posters from the Mexico to the Flint Hills of paired with secret collaborators. Institution) by John Scarlett Davis, Stalinist era in the Soviet Union in Kansas. J “William Blake’s representing an early 19th-century the 1930s and from the U.S. and Illustrations from the Book of Job” San Jose Museum of Quilts & exhibition venue, Britain in WWI; “Wonderful & (Aug. 29) Engravings from the Textiles J (Through Aug. 8) presents viewers Curious” Tracing the genesis of the collection; some of Blake’s finest. “Hawaii’s Alfred Shaheen: Fabric with minia - permanent collection to honor the to Fashion” Retrospective of tures of museum’s 125 anniversary. Kentucky Hawaiian textiles and aloha-wear Art Museum , University of manufactured by Shaheen on the Indiana Kentucky, Lexington J “The island of Oahu; “Grand Appliqué: Indiana University Art Museum , Bluegrass Palette of Andre Pater” Hawaiian Quilts”; “Wendeanne Bloomington J “Manet as Print- (Oct.10) Polish-born Lexington Ke'aka Stitt: Contemporary Kapa” maker” (Aug. 1) Etchings and lith - resident artist struts his sporting art Santa Cruz artist Stitt combines ographs. J “Patrons and Portraits in oils, pastels, gouache, and char - in Federal and Antebellum coals—from jockeys to thorough - famous America” (Aug. 31) Paintings breds to hunting and hounds to paintings from the 1790s to the 1840s. grazing cattle. hanging on the Illinois Maine walls and Tarble Arts Center , Eastern Illinois Institute of Contemporary Art , replicas of University, Charleston J “From Maine College of Art, Portland J other famous the Collection: Biennial Exhibition “A Meticulous Ferment: Beth paintings in Award Winners and Drawing Suites” Lipman & Kirsten Hassenfeld” his depiction (Aug. 15) Winners works collected (Aug. 15) Highly crafted works of the people over the 40 years of the biennial. in glass and paper including a viewing the hand-blown glass sculpture and exhibition. Kansas an ornamental paper sculpture. Dane G. Hansen Museum , Logan J “Fragile Nature: Photographs by Portland Museum of Art J “Anna Joel Sartore” (Aug. 8) A journey Hepler; Makeshift” (Oct. 17) Large into the natural world across North site-specific installation in the and South America; pictures taken museum’s entry space, and cyan - for the National Graphic . otype prints made from digital

Loet Vanderveen, Royal Horse , 1985. Bronze. Crocker Art Museum, CA 5 summer VIEWS continued photos of small sculptures. J Plein Air Painting” (Aug. 15) The pastoral sur - “American Moderns: Masterworks product of past summer visits to the roundings, and on Paper from the Wadsworth Cape by a group of Harrisburg, PA, the great tradi - Atheneum Museum of Art, 1910- artists who call themselves Seven tion of 17th- 1960” (Sept. 12) Hopper, Marin, Lively Artists. century Dutch Kent, Dali, Kelly, Sloan, Marsh, art: Henri, Shahn, Benton, and more. J Fitchburg Art Museum J “75th Chase, “Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Regional Show” (Sept. 5) Juried: Twachtman, Place” (Sept. 6) Showcasing the open to all museum members and Sargent, among museum’s collection of Homer all adults who live within a 25-mile others. J watercolors to mark the centennial radius of the museum. “GRAM and of his death. Also the debut of an Ox-Bow Joint online gallery providing access to Provincetown Art Association and Centennial the museum’s collection of Homer’s Museum J “Jack Tworkov: Against Celebration and wood engravings. Extremes/Five Decades of Painting” Artist Series” (Aug. 22) Retrospective of the (Aug. 22) Maryland work of one of the founding GRAM=Grand Walters Art Museum , Baltimore J members of the New York School Rapids Art “Bearing Witness: Work by Bradley who spent productive summers Museum; Ox- McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry” in Provincetown. Bow=school of (Aug. 1) Larger-than-life, mother- art and artists’ and-child portraits accompanied by Clark Art Institute , Williamstown residency affili - Arnold Friberg, RCMP Officer Loading Packhorse , 1951. Oil on canvas. testimonials from black teenage J “Picasso Looks at Degas” (Sept. ated with the Art In “Brave, Strong, True,” Tweed Museum of Art, MN mothers about their pregnancies and 12) See article on p. 1) Institute of Chicago. J “Chris Missouri lives following that experience. J Overvoorde: The Alberta Contemporary Art Museum , St. Through Oct. 10: “Checkmate! Michigan Drawings” (Aug. 30) Drawn Louis J “Great Rivers Biennial” Medieval People at Play” Down University of Michigan Museum of on square paper inimical to the (Aug. 8) In a program designed to time in A Book of Hours from Art , Ann Arbor J “Turning Point: horizontal vistas of the Canadian identify and support emerging tal - Flanders; “Great Illustrations: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the prairie, the images illustrate an ent, three local artists are featured. Drawings and Books from the Mid-20th Century” (Aug. 22) art problem while recording the Walters’ Collection” 19th-century Japanese pottery during a period of light, atmosphere, and scale of Springfield Art Museum J illustrations accompanied by exceptional creativity J “Sister the landscape. “Watercolor USA 2010” (Aug. 8) the volumes in which they Corita: The Joyous Revolutionary” Competitive, annual, national. J were published. (Aug. 15) Prints ranging from early Kalamazoo Institute of Arts J “On “Yvonne Jacquette: The Complete religious pieces to Abstract Paper: The Lincoln Center/List Woodcuts, 1987-2009” (Sept. 26) Washington County Museum of Expressionist-inspired works of the Art Collection” (Aug. 14) Prints Fine Arts , Hagerstown J “Hand late 1950s and the Robert Indiana created by Warhol, Frankenthaler, Montana Thrown: The Fine Art of Pinched Love postage stamp. Lawrence, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Missoula Art Museum J “National and Coiled Ceramics” (Sept. 5) and others. Iron” (Aug. 29) Cast iron art. J Works by contemporary clay artists Kresge Art Museum , Michigan Through Sept. 19: “Joshua Meier: using one of the oldest methods of State University, East Lansing J Fredericks Sculpture Museum , The Parables (and other impossible creating clay forms. J “Eye Poppers Big and Bold” (July Saginaw Valley State University, events)” Staged photographs that “Cumberland Valley Artists 30) Works that reflect major stylis - University Center J “Sculpture create visual parables—surrealistic Exhibition” (Sept. 26) Juried exhi - tic trends of the past half-century: Exhibition” (Sept. 18) Juried worlds, improbable scenarios; bition in its 78th year. J “Blue pure abstraction, Op and Geometric display of works by artists residing “Peter Keefer: Images of the Great Water—Still Water” (Sept. 12) art, and color field paintings. within 200 miles of the museum. War” Collage drawings that repre - Contemporary works by members sent people and events in WWI. J of the American Society of Marine Flint Institute of Arts J Through Minnesota “Behind the Vault Doors” (Aug. 31) Artists focusing on all aspects of Aug. 15: “Tagliapietra in Tweed Museum of Art , University Part of a statewide, six-museum marine life in a variety of mediums. Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance of Minnesota, Duluth J “Brave, collaboration in support of an in- in Italian Glass” Retrospective of Strong, True: Selections from the progress film and a series of exhibi - Massachusetts works by the “maestro of glass - Potlatch Collection of Royal tions showcasing artworks often Fuller Craft Museum , Brockton J blowing”; Louis Comfort Tiffany: Canadian Mounted Police hidden to the public behind vault “Furniture from the Permanent Articles of Utility, Objects of Art” Illustrations” (Sept. 12) Ad doors. J “Joyce Folsom’s Gift of Collection” (Sept Not just lamps— illustrations done for the Potlatch Intimate Landscapes to the MAM” 26) Studio furni - artistry in a Corp./Northwest Paper Co. in (Sept. 30) Montana painters. ture. J “Mariko social context. the 1930s using the image and Kusumoto: reputation of the Royal Canadian New Jersey Unfolding Grand Rapids Mounted Police to sell the compa - American Labor Museum/Botto Stories” (Aug. 8) Art Museum , J ny’s printing products. House National Landmark , Intricate metal “Dutch Utopia: Haledon J “Harriet Tubman sculptures of American Artists Goldstein Museum of Design , Saint and the Underground Railroad music boxes, in Holland, Paul J “Flights of Fancy: A History Print Show: The Art of Mark clocks, and other 1880-1914” of Feathers in Fashion” (Sept. 12) Priest” (Aug. 28) boxlike construc - (Aug. 15) Historical and contemporary use tions with multi - Artworks by of feathers in western fashion: the Monmouth Museum , Lincroft J ple moving parts. expatriates origins of the use of feathers in “The Painting World of Evelyn (1880-1914) clothing; the international feather Leavens” (Sept. 5) Retrospective Cape Cod inspired by the trade; activism and laws designed spanning six decades from realism Museum of Art , pre-industrial to protect endangered bird popula - to abstraction in multiple mediums. Dennis J “Seven lifestyle in tions; and the psychological appeal Andre Pater, Grey Thoroughbred and Jockey Lively Artists: in Red Silks . Pastel. In “The Bluegrass Holland, their of wearing feathers. Pallette of Andre Pater,” Art Museum of the 6 University of Kentucky Princeton University Art Museum Etchings from a Printmaking Now” (Aug. 16) Drawings, prints, hand-cut screen-printed paper. J “Inner Sanctum: Memory and Atelier” (Aug. 22) From abstract books, and sculpture by three gener - Meaning in Princeton’s Faculty compositions to domestic interiors. ations of women artists from the Oklahoma Room at Nassau Hall” (Oct. 30) mid-century to the present. J Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art , The venerable Faculty Room and Guggenheim Museum , New York “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913- University of Oklahoma, Norman J the portraits within it seen as the City J “Julie Mehretu: Grey Area” 17” (Oct. 11) Abstract, geometric “Wanderlust: Travel and American symbolic center of the university. (Oct. 6) Large-scale paintings paintings in predominantly black Photography” (Sept. 12) inspired by historical photographs, and gray. J “The Modern Myth: Photographers capture Americans New Mexico urban planning grids, modern art, Drawing Mythologies in Modern on the move. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum , and graffiti. J “Haunted: Contem- Times” (Sept.6) Works on paper Santa Fe J “Georgia O’Keeffe: poraryPhotography/Video/Perfor- from the collection that incorporate Oregon Abstraction” (Sept. 11) A top- mance ” (Sept. 6) Site-specific elements of ancient mythology into Schnitzer Museum of Art , J ten, power exhibition, so saith installations, sculptures, and new visual representations. J University of Oregon, Eugene the critics. paintings that incorporate “Bruce Nauman: Days” (Aug. 23) “One Step Big Shot: Portraits by photographic elements. Single work installation: a “sound Andy Warhol and Gus Van Sant” New York sculpture”—a continuous stream (Sept. 5) Polaroid shots helped J Hyde Collection , Glens Falls Jewish Museum , New York City J of seven voices reciting the days Warhol create iconic Pop images “Andrew Wyeth: An American “South African Photographs: David of the week through 14 and Van Sant to cast characters Legend” (Sept. 5) An overview of Goldblatt” (Sept. 19) The human suspended speakers. for his films. the principal media and themes in landscape in the apartheid and post- Pennsylvania his oeuvre from late 1930s to late apartheid eras. J “The Monayer Ukrainian Museum , New York City twentieth century. J Trout Gallery , Dickinson College, Family: Three Videos by Dor Guez” “Ukraine-Sweden: At the J (Sept. 7) Perspectives on ethnic Crossroads of History (XV11-XV111 Carlisle “Above & Below: Hofstra University Museum , identity, citizenship, and prejudice Centuries” (Oct. 31) Religious icons Skyscrapers to Subways in New J Hempstead “Something’s A Foot: from different generations of the and manuscripts, armor, and other York City 1913-1949” (Aug. 21) Small Works from the Hofstra Monayers, a Christian Arab family historical artifacts viewed in the How artists viewed New York’s University Museum Collection” in Israel. J “Modern Art, Sacred context of Sweden’s support for an emerging architectural and engi - (Sept. 12) Works from diverse Space: Motherwell, independent neering icons. cultures in a variety of media— Ferber, and Gottlieb” Ukraine 300 all 12 inches or less. Berman Museum of Art , Ursinus (Aug. 1) A large-scale years ago. J mural, a velvet Torah College, Collegeville “Smooth J Olana , Hudson “Fern Hunting curtain, and an exterior George Eastman Cartographies: Toward a Collective Among These Picturesque sculptural relief, all House , Becoming” (Aug. 1) Digital media Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church commissioned in 1951 Rochester J artist and “locative” technologies: in Jamaica” (Oct. 31) Oil sketches GPS, RFID, as well as other mobile to decorate the B’nai Through Oct. J and paintings from Church’s 1865 Israel synagogue in 17: “Colorama”; platforms. “The Art Gene: The trip to the island. Millburn, NJ. “Persistent Hutton Family Legacy” (Aug. 8) Shadow: As advertised: an entire family’s J Katonah Museum of Art “Steve Museum of Arts and Considering the artworks. Tobin: Katonah Steelroots” (Sept. Design , New York City Photographic 19) Rolled and bent steel “roots” J Michener Art Museum , Doylestown “Dead or Alive” Negative” J rise 22 feet above the ground in a (Oct.24) Installations “Icons of Costume: Hollywood's sculpture fabricated for the site. and sculptures crafted Ohio Golden Era and Beyond” (Sept. 5) Evelyn Leavens, Large Self Portrait , Canton Costume design and the impact of from organic materials, J Nassau County Museum of Art , including insects, feath - 1980. Oil on linen. In “The Painting Museum of Art film on popular culture. “Ellis J World of Evelyn Leavens,” Island: Ghosts of Freedom” (Oct. Roslyn Harbor “The Sea Around ers, shells, bones, silk - Monmouth Museum, NJ J “Form, Figure & Us” (Sept. 12) Seascapes by worm cocoons, plant Function: 10) The photographs by Lewis Hine Hassam, Grooms, Hopper, Monet, material, and fur. J “Bespoke: The Contemporary Ohio Ceramics” document the ongoing drama of Tiffany, N.C. and James Wyeth, Handbuilt Bicycle” (Aug. 15) (July 25) Group of ceramic artists Ellis Island; contemporary photog - and more: styles range from 19th- Designs by six noted bicycle strut their stuff. rapher Stephen Wilkes captures the century American landscape and builders. J “Portable Treasures: abandoned buildings. Impressionism to contemporary. Contemporary Arts Center , Silver Jewelry from the Nadler J Collection” (Aug. 8) Cincinnati J “Shepard Fairey: Philadelphia Art Alliance Bronx Museum , New York City J Supply and Demand” (Aug. 22) “Vanitas: Contemporary Through Aug. 11: “Road to MoMA PS1 , Long Island City J Street artist whose work shifts Reflections” (Aug. 12) The Freedom: Photographs of the Civil “Greater New York” (Oct. 18) between fine, commercial, and ephemeral nature of both art Rights Movement, 1956-1968”; Recent work by artists living and political art: screen prints, stencils, and life are themes in multi- “After 1968: Contemporary Artists working in the metropolitan area. stickers, illustrations, collages, and media show. and the Civil Rights Legacy” Two works on wood, metal, and canvas. Print Center J exhibitions organized by the High Museum of Modern Art , New York J “Jumex Collection” (mid- , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Atlanta, that City J Through Aug. 30: “Lee October) Contemporary art from Through July 24: “84th Annual chronicle a pivotal moment in Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Latin America. J “Pat Steir: Water International Competition: the nation’s history. Sense” Sculpture and works on & Stone” (Aug. 22) Paintings. Photography” Juried show; paper with the natural world as the “Tracings/Transfers/Copies/ J Brooklyn Museum Through Sept. focus; “Pictures by Women: A Taft Museum of Art , Cincinnati J Forgeries: Bill Walton” Varied 12: “Kiki Smith: Sojourn”; “Andy History of Modern Photography” “TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the examples of printmaking made J Warhol: The Last Decade” Abbott, Arbus, Lange, and others; Photograph as Art, 1845-1945” over a period of 30 years “American High Style: Fashioning (Aug. 8) Works by early photogra - “Picasso: Themes and Variations” J a National Collection” (Aug. 1) The Great One’s evolving artistic phers who sought through visual Mattress Factory , Pittsburgh vision through decades of experi - effects to elevate the medium to “Nothing is Impossible” (Aug. 8) Derfner Judaica Museum , Hebrew menting in etching, lithography, and the status of painting, J “Kristine Installations by five artists. Home at Riverdale, New York City linoleum cut. J “Mind and Matter: Donnelly: Paperwork” (Oct. 24) J “VanDeb Editions: Monotypes + Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Delicate structures made from 7 summer VIEWS continued

Everhart Museum , Scranton J Greenville County Museum of Art Learning to Say Good-bye” Images Virginia Through Sept. 6: “Ancient Bronzes J “A Portrait of Greenville” (Sept. that illustrate the life and death of Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk of the Asian Grasslands from the 26) The city in many mediums by the artist’s mother; “Neither Model J “Class Pictures: Photographs by Arthur M. Sackler Foundation” many artists. nor Muse: Women as Artists” Dawoud Bey” (Aug. 6) Teens in Weapons, ornaments, and other Works from the collection in a high schools across the country and artifacts from the nomadic cultures Tennessee range of media. their comments about themselves of Mongolia and Central Asia Knoxville Museum of Art J and their lives. J “Dutch ‘Golden where animals were used as sym - Through Aug. 1: “Bloom” Age’ Paintings” (Aug. 22) bols to identify tribes and social Botanically inspired large-scale Vermeer ( Young Woman Seated ranks; “Migration: A Journey from outdoor sculptures: 16-foot-tall at a Virginal ), Rembrandt van Bhutan to Scranton” Photographs blades of nylon grass, flowers, Rijn ( Self-Portrait with Shaded and stories of families who jour - and other plant-like shapes in Eyes —no longer on view), neyed from the mountainous Asian synthetic nylon fabric and fiber - Frans Hals ( Portrait of nation of Bhutan to a refugee camp glass; “Vision, Language, and Samuel Ampzing ). in Nepal, and eventually to homes Influence: Photographs of the in northeastern Pennsylvania. South by Baldwin Lee, Walker University of Richmond Evans, and Eudora Welty” Museums , Richmond J At Palmer Museum of Art , Photos taken over a 50-year- Harnett Museum of Art , Pennsylvania State University, period; Welty’s documentation of “Rincon Falls, Trinidad: A Print University Park J “The rural life in Mississippi during Series by Chris Ofili” (Sept. 26). Bloomsbury Artists in American the Depression. J “Uncertain J At Robins Gallery of Design : Collections” (Sept. 26) Celebrating Terrain: Selections from the “Best in Show: Staffordshire the 100th anniversary of the KMA Collection” (Aug. 29) Dogs from the Collection” group’s beginnings: paintings, Paintings, drawings, photo - (Sept. 25) 19th- and 20th-century works on paper, and decorative arts graphs, and new media works English porcelains. inspired by the surrounding land - Renfrew Museum and Park , scape, rural and urban, perceived Taubman Museum of Art , J J Waynesboro “Emily Clayton and imagined. S. L. Margolies, Man’s Canyons , 1936. Aquatint and Roanoke “Posing Beauty in Bishop Retrospective” (Oct. 16) etching, In “Above & Below,” Trout Gallery, PA African American Culture” (Aug. Sculptures, Fine Arts Gallery , Vanderbilt 22) Historical and contemporary watercolors, University, Nashville J “Five representations on film; photo - sand charcoal Centuries of Drawing: A Selection Utah graphs dated from 1890 to portraits by from the Vanderbilt University Fine Utah Museum of Fine Arts , Salt the present. this student Arts Gallery Collection” (Sept. 23) Lake City J “Las Artes de of Rodin. Old Masters and moderns: late Mexico” (Sept. 26) Over three Wisconsin Renaissance to present. J millennia of tradition and change Charles Allis Art Museum , “American Art at Vanderbilt” expressed in pottery, painting, folk Milwaukee J “New Media at (Aug. 19) Baskin, Bellows, art, and prints about celebration, the Charles Allis” (Sept 15) Cassatt, Chase, Davis, Hassam, ritual warfare, veneration of the Artists use new media—video, Rauschenberg, Warhol, and others. dead, and modern social issues. J iPhones, and the like—to “salt 1: Adriana Lara” (Sep. 26) project traditional images. Frist Center for the Visual Arts , Video and sculpture by Mexico- Nashville J Through Sept. 12: based artist in an ongoing series Woodson Art Museum , Wausau J “The Golden Age of Couture: Paris showcasing work by emerging Through Aug. 29: “The New and London 1947-1957” How artists around the world. J “Pablo Reality: The Frontier of Realism in designers such as Dior, Balenciaga, O'Higgins: Works on Paper” (Sept. the 21st Century” Newly created and Chanel brought glamour back 19) Lithographs: heroic depictions works inspired by famous paint - to Europe after WWII; J “Presence of the working class in revolution - ings; the old and new Realism in or Absence: The Photographs of ary Mexico by an American. contrast; “Peanuts at Bat!” Charlie Tokihiro Sato” Landscapes. Brown and the Gang engaged in Salt Lake City Art Center “Not America’s favorite pastime. J Texas Just Another Pretty Face” (July 24) Blanton Museum of Art , Austin J Works commissioned from Utah “Matisse as Printmaker: Works artists by individuals in the com - from the Pierre and Tana Matisse munity: Artists and patrons were Foundation” (Aug. 23) Media encouraged to create a work based range from etching, aquatint, and on the concept of a portrait. J monotype, to lithography, woodcut, “Melissa Ann Pinney: Girl and linoleum cut. J “New Works Ascending” (Oct. 30) Large-scale for the Collection” Old Master, color photographs focused on modern, and contemporary. family. Juliellen Byrne, Toe Tag. In “Form, Figure & Function,” Canton Museum of Art (OH) McNay Art Museum , San Antonio Brigham Young University J Through Aug. 29: “Terra Museum of Art , Provo J “The South Carolina Incognita: Dulac’s Suite de First 100 Years: Collecting Art at Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston Paysages” Work by 19th-century BYU” (Sept. 25) European por - J “JoAnn Verburg: Interruptions” French lithographer; “Jeanne and traits and religious works, 19th- Irving Mathews Collection of Art (Sept. 12) Photographs feature the and 20th-century American paint - Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman Seated residents and architecture of Glass” French Art Nouveau and Art ings: Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe at a Virginal , ca. 1670-72, Oil on canvas. Deco glass including Daum Frères, serigraph series, original drawings In “Dutch ‘Golden Age’ Paintings,” Spoleto, Italy. Chrylser Museum of Art, VA Lalique, and more . J Through of famous comic strips, and murals Sept. 12: “Janet Lennie Flohr: from the Book of Mormons .

8 newsBRIEFS and numbers of visitors (100 million predicted). an international center for the study of this genre, WHAT’S GOING ON “Galleries of human inspirations and thoughts,” particularly so after receiving a major gift of around the world… say the organizers. The huge Expo site straddles works from Stuart Purves, director of the the Huangpu River and is built over Australian Galleries in Melbourne TEFAF Reports Good Times former shipyards, steel mills, and and a long-time Australian art In a report commissioned by the European some residential properties. In addi - dealer. His collection of 180 Fine Art Foundation (organizer of The European tion, the city has undergone a major outsider works has enhanced the Fine Art Fair—TEFAF), a change in luxury makeover with new subway lines, university’s Self-Taught and spending habits caused by the recession has fresh paint, new lighting citywide, Outsider Art Research Collection helped the international art and antiques market and new museums and galleries which was established in 2008. The weather the global economic storm. (To order the opening in concert with the Expo. collection is on view at the univer- report go to www.tefaf.com; click on shop.) Many of China’s best known sity’s Callan Park Gallery located in High-end buyers have eschewed expensive artists and leading international the inner Sydney suburb of Rozelle. cars, yachts, and jets in favor of assets with artists are exhibiting their wares “The idea is to have a center for long-term value—art and antiques. This fact either within the Expo site or off-site research into this area so that schol - in the city: the Little Mermaid sculp - ars from other universities, both translates into a world art market that, although August Oppenheim, down, has done far better than expected during ture from Denmark sits in the Danish Frauenkirche, Dresden , 1854. within Australia and around the world, pavilion; “Expo Boulevard” at the site Albuminpapier. In “Architectural would see it as a focus around which the economic downturn. Photograpy from the National “As economically recessive conditions in many entrance has a display of sculptures Museums in Berlin,” to base their research,” says Colin from around the world; and extrava - Kunstbibliothek, Sammlung Rhodes, dean of the college. countries have led to a reduction in incomes, Fotografie, Berlin. demand for and consumption of many luxury gant pavilions with costs rising into Sydney’s 17th Bienniale, goods has also contracted,” says the report. It the tens of millions, including those of several “The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in goes on to report that although the world financial developing countries in Africa that have been a Precarious Age,” (Aug. 1), is located in seven crisis produced a drop in the number of high-net- financed and supported by Chinese authorities, heritage spaces across the city, among them the worth individuals, the share of art investments are attractions unto themselves. Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge and the actually rose in 2008 as investors looked for Local events include the SH Contemporary and Museum of Contemporary Art, the historic prison assets that had a more enduring value. Shanghai Art Fairs; the opening of Shanghart’s (a Cockatoo Island, it’s 1839 powerhouse. Works by “The geographical distribution of wealth leading Shanghai art gallery) museum style ware - 200 artists from around the world are featured. has also worked in favor of the art market. While house; International Artists Day, when 100 artists most of the older Western economies are current - opened their studios for two weekends in May; Geneva ly in recession, many of the new art markets are and 19,994 others. “50JPG (50 Jours pour la Photographie à still showing positive growth, with China and A host of new cultural attractions have Genève—50 Days for Photography in Geneva),” India at rates of 9 percent and 6 percent appeared around the city outside the Expo site. a triennial devoted to photography was initiated in respectively in 2009.” For example, the Rockbund Art Museum, located 2003 by, and is being held at the Centre de la on Shanghai’s riverfront in a restored old building Photographie Geneve (CPG). This year’s exhibi - Amsterdam that once housed the Royal Asiatic Society, tion “La Revanche de l’archive photographique Rijksmuseum: “Dutch Interiors by Joan opened featuring peasant creativity. Spain and the (Photographic Archives Hit Back) (through July) Miró” (Sept. 13), a series of three paintings Netherlands opened centers in downtown at the Bâtiment d’art conterporain, constitutes the inspired by two interior scenes by 17th-century Shanghai. The Dutch Cultural Center opened with central focus of the festival, bringing together 30 Dutch masters Hendrick Sorgh and Jan Steen, a performance by a conceptual artist; next came a artists from around the world. which Miró saw at the Rijksmuseum during his show of works from the Van Abbemuseum in Some 30 exhibitions, a colloquium, a 1928 visit to the Netherlands. The paintings Eindhoven. The new Minsheng Art Museum is portfolio viewing, and lectures are all features represent his early surrealistic work and are holding a retrospective of Chinese art. The of this year’s 50JPG. displayed for the first time ever, together with Shanghai Museum of Natural History sketches and drawings, alongside the works announced a new three-storey museum to open in Rome which were their inspiration. 2012. The Zendai Himalayas Art Museum opened The MaXXi , a museum of 21st century art and Also at the Rijksmuseum: “Amsterdam’s what it calls an “art supermarket” in which most architecture, opened in May of this year with five Canal Belt. The Expansion of Amsterdam in of the works were sold at an unprecedented rate: exhibitions adorning its concrete and glass cam - the Golden Age” (Sept. 6), revenues reached $83,500 on the first day, with 80 pus which was designed by Zaha Hadid. Among paintings, prints, and drawings percent of them the inaugural exhibitions, “Space” (Feb. 2011) is showing the 17th-century selling at or a thematic installation of the art and architectural expansion of the city. about $700. designs that the museum acquired on funds sup - Other pop- plied by the state, from bequests, and through Berlin ups in the donations. In another gallery is an interactive 40- culture field meter wall tracing Italian architecture over the Museum für Fotografie: are a Chinese “Architectural Photography past 60 years. Gino De Dominicis, Kutlug “hometown Ataman, and architect Luigi Moretti complete from the National Museums in folk museum,” Berlin” (Sept. 5) The Art the schedule. a brick and tile The museum is located in the former Montella Library in the museum reopened museum, a its newly reconstructed barracks in the Flaminio district, close to the Villa numismatics Borghese gardens. Kaisersall (Emperor’s Hall) with museum, and a a show of never-seen-before water museum. treasures, from bamboo huts Gerrit Berckheyde, Gouden Bocht (Golden Bend), c. 1672. In The Provinces of France “Amsterdam’s Canal Belt,” Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. All are reachable In Nantes, the Musée Dobrée ’s 19th-century (from the Ethnological Museum), by means of the building is undergoing major revamps, particular - to temples (Egyptian Museum), mosques new subway system, built to support World ly underground, to add an auditorium, studios, (Museum of Asian Art), and classical modernism Expo 2010. (the Art Library’s collection). and a reception area. The collection of some Sydney 10,000 objects, and the building were bequeathed Shanghai to the Loire-Atlantique regional authority in 1895. Outsider art has found an advocate and a home Next door, the Manoir de la Touche, a 15th- Shanghai’s World Expo (Oct. 30) is proving at the University of Sydney , which is becoming to be unprecedented in size (over 20,000 events) century structure, houses the continued on next page 9 newsBRIEFS continued from page 9 museum’s archaeological collection. personal background and the history of The Musée d’Unterlinden in Comar, Alsace, African Americans. houses a major 16th-century religious work, The Mary Whyte Art Educator Award the Isenheim Altarpiece. The museum’s main was given to Anne Cimballa, an art building, a 13th-century convent is being teacher of grades 7, 9, and 10. Designed restored while a nearby art nouveau building to recognize a high-school visual art is being converted to create new space for a teacher in the tri-county area who has 20th-century collection, and a gallery for its “demonstrated superior commitment to 19th-century works. his or her students and craft,” the award carries a cash prize of $1,000. [For information on more events around the The James S. Gibbes Philanthropy world, see “What’s On” in The Art Newspaper ] Award went to Jim and Esther Ferguson, long-time supporters of the museum whose personal art collection is on view at the out into the places where people work and Gibbes. The couple made the lead gift in the live—and then invite them back to our perma - …in the USA… campaign to bring Christo to Charleston. nent location….” During his tenure at the 337 Project, Price New Homes Like Winterthur worked with local artists to create contemporary The Winterthur Museum and Country In the Top Ten art in nontraditional contexts. For example, he Estate (DE) has granted Connor Homes of True West Magazine has named Buffalo Bill gave 150 Utah artists three months to transform Middlebury, Vermont, exclusive rights to pro - Museum and Grave (CO) number three in the a two-story building into a collective work of duce a line of homes, the design of which they top ten best Western museums in the United art. The resulting creation was viewed by over say will be historically authentic, with architec - States. Western history buffs hold True West in 10,000 visitors in the six days that it was open tural details that come from the museum’s high esteem; “to be selected as the number 3 to the public. Subsequent 337 Project undertak - archives and the existing architecture on the museum among Western museum is a real ings include the creation of an Urban Gallery on Winterthur estate. honor,” said Steve Friesen, director. a series of garage doors at a local charity, The museum was started in 1921, four years Neighborhood House, and the transformation of Available for Viewing after Buffalo Bill was buried on Lookout an old vegetable truck into a mobile gallery Mountain. Johnny Baker, Cody’s foster son, bringing original artwork by local and national The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (NM) has compiled a collection of items from his foster introduced on its website (okeeffemuseum.org) artists directly to Utah’s schools. father’s life as well as the largest collection of In 2009, 337 Project received the Mayor’s a searchable online database with images of Wild West show posters in existence. Today, the Service to the Arts Award, the Best of State over 3,000 items from the collection, as well as original museum building is a historic site that Medallion for Arts in Education, the Best of materials from the archives of the museum’s houses a gift shop; standing beside it is the mod - State Statute for Overall Winner in the education research center. The database includes more that ern building that houses the collection: the 900 O’Keeffe works: iconic flowers, desert posters, firearms, an exhibit showing Buffalo category, and the Best of Broadway Award for skulls, nudes, landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, Bill’s relationship to the Indians, and a chil - Service to the Arts. and abstractions dating from 1901 to 1984. dren’s activity space. Center for Land Use Seeing Art Happen New Crocker, New Art Interpretation The Lux Art Institute (CA), with the The new Crocker Art Museum (CA) opens The Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for region’s only artist-in-residence program, wel - on October 10, with two new collecting areas Art + Environment (CA+E) announced the comes a Berlin-based painter as the final resi - allowing for the display of more from the per - acquisition of the archives of the Wendover dent artist of the 2009/2010 season. Sati Zech manent collection as well as works from the (UT) Residency Program run by the Center for was invited to live and work on site, to produce extraordinary collection of sculptor/collector Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), based in Los a work of art from start to finish while making it Loet Vanderveen. Oceanic and African Art will Angeles. The acquisition represents more than possible for visitors not only to “see art,” but be shown together in a second-floor atrium 10 years of art making sponsored by CLUI, an also to “see art happen.” gallery. Visitors will see artwork from the institute dedicated to the exploration and under - The institute hosts several regional, national, standing of land and landscape issues in North and international artists throughout the year who Asmat, related South Pacific Islanders, and Sub- America. participate in the residency program. Visitors to Saharan African regions—all donated to the the museum enjoy tours that provide intimate museum by Vanderveen, whose entire collection “This acquisition is a significant addition to access to the artist and his/her work, even before includes objects from a diversity of cultures the current CA+E Archive collection,” said it appears in an exhibition that also includes including China, Africa, India, Indonesia, William L. Fox, director of the center. “The works from the permanent collection of indoor Thailand, Burma, Central America, and New CA+E is designed to be a global leader in study - and outdoor art at the end of the residency. A Guinea. ing how people construct creative responses to wide range of programming for all ages further natural, built, and virtual environments and aims enhances the popular program. to collect notable archives from across the Salt Lake Center globe. The CLUI archive provides a core sample Winners Reaches Out of the working practices of artists engaged at the The Gibbes Museum of Art (SC) has A community outreach program in Salt Lake intersections of art and geography, art and envi - announced winners of several 2010 awards: City called 337 Project, founded four years ago ronment, and desert regions….” The Elizabeth Mallory Factor Prize for by the present director of the Salt Lake Art Southern Art was awarded to artist Radcliffe Center , has been absorbed by the center as its Mobile Art Exhibit Bailey. The award, including $10,000, acknowl - newest programming arm. Since the two bodies have successfully collaborated in the past, “Art on Track” is the third annual moving art edges the “artist whose work demonstrates the exhibit. It takes place aboard an eight-car highest level of artistic achievement in any Executive Director Adam Price says, “in many ways this is a natural marriage. The 337 Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train that cir - media while contributing to a new understand - cles the Chicago Loop for a day-long celebra - ing of art in the South.” Bailey, inspired by jazz Project’s continued focus on community pro - gramming will instantly give Salt Lake Art tion of fine arts and culture. Visitors are directed music, is best known for his mixed media works to find the entrance to the exhibit at the Adams and site-specific installations that explore his Center a greater ability to project its presence and Wabash CTA platform. continued on next page

10 Above: Mary DeNeale Morgan, Near Point Pinos. Oil on masonite, 1920. In “Superbly Independent,” Hearst Art Gallery, CA Members of Chicago’s art community travel stretches from 82nd Street to 105th Street and pling with similar collection-based issues.” and interact with visitors to the exhibit who may includes nine of New York City’s cultural institu - be plying their customary route (the train makes tions, which are opened free to the public from Eastman Acquires Ivory its regular stops), or who may be aboard 6-9. In addition to special exhibitions on view The George Eastman House International specifically for the exhibition. inside the museums, street music and activities Museum of Photography & Film announced Art on Track, part of SALVO NFP, is an occupied both children and adults in astonishing the acquisition of the Merchant Ivory organization dedicated to increasing cultural numbers —estimated to have been over 1 million. Museums along the way were: El Museo de Productions collection consisting of 2,600 ele - awareness and education through exposure to the ments including more than 40 titles such as A fine arts. SALVO provides free alternative public Barrio; The Museum of the City of New York; The Jewish Museum; Cooper-Hewitt, National Room With a View (1986), Howards End (1992), spaces for arts organizations to showcase their The Remains of the Day (1993), Mr. and Mrs. ware to an expanded demographic, reaching Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; National Academy Museum & School of Fine Bridge (1990), and The Bostonians (1984). The out to those who are otherwise isolated from gift also includes original negatives, interposi - the city’s art culture. Arts; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Neue Gallerie New York; Goethe-Institut New tives, and 35mm archive prints made from the The event is sponsored by FIGI Water and the original negatives of some of Merchant Ivory’s school of the Art Institute. Tickets can be pur - York/German Cultural Center; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. most admired films. chased at the platform on the day of the event “Ismail Merchant’s worry for years was that ($15) or in advance at ticketleap.com ($10). all those films of ours, made in so many places, Free Space stored in so many labs around the world, would Collective Buying Boosts Three special presentations at MoMA PS1 never be brought safely home and might be lost,” are on view to explore the five-year trajectory said James Ivory. “Now the George Eastman Attendance of New York’s creative community. They are House motion picture archive is that home, safe - Several museums have used a company part of PS1’s “Free Space” program, a recent guarding the continuing life of Merchant Ivory’s called Groupon to boost attendance. The compa - initiative offering free gallery space to select work for the next generations.” ny operates on the basis of collective buying: it non-profit organizations, independent curators, Merchant planned the gift long before his offers a special price for admission (or an event, artists, and collectives to experiment and gener - demise in 2005. He dreamed of including his or a product) and waits to see how many buyers ate public programming. own collection of relevant contracts, correspon - the offer attracts. When the number reaches a The first presentation, in the Painting Gallery, dence, and other business papers, a dream that certain level determined by the company, the is dedicated to “5 Year Review,” a showcase of was implemented by his surviving partner of offer is “on.” If not, the offer is canceled. some of the important exhibitions performances, some 40 years and the staffs of Merchant Successes have been reported by museums in concerts, movies, fashion, design, happenings, Ivory’s offices in New York, London, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles. Hollywood, Washington and events that occurred in New York in the last and Mumbai. D.C., St. Louis, New York, and Portland. (See five years. Not a comprehensive history of the The company known as Merchant Ivory groupon.com for more information. period, individual taste reigns in this gallery— consists of three masters from vastly different the tastes and memories of an invited group of cultures: producer Merchant was born in India; fellow curators and critics. Performances and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in in New York … public programming by participating artists are Germany and educated in England; director scheduled to take place throughout the duration Ivory was born in the United State. Different as MoMA Acquires Barney of the exhibition. they may have been, their partnership is listed Series Next, in the Drawing Gallery, four New as the longest in independent cinema history. The Museum of Modern Art (NY), in York-based guest curators oganize a series of James Ivory recently was honored with the conjunction with the Laurenz Foundation in exhibitions that will turn over every five weeks. title of George Eastman Honorary Scholar, Basel, Switzerland, has acquired the complete Additional curators are welcome, specifically awarded for artistic achievement in motion archive of Matthew Barney’s “Drawing those who work without institutional affiliations. pictures, on the opening night of the film Restraint” series, an ongoing project the artist The basement level is transformed into a festival that bears his name. At that time, he started 20 years ago when he was an undergrad - movie theater for screenings of films and video. presented his newest film, The City of Your uate at Yale University. The two organizations Film curators are on hand to program the theater Final Destination . will share equal ownership of the work. with ongoing presentations. In this series, Barney explores the notion that, Magnum Photos in NYC just as athletes use resistance to increase muscle Conservation and strength, artists’ use of impediments should The Flag Art Foundation (NY), a benefici - enhance their output. He put his theory to work at the Guggenheim ary of Michael Dell’s investment firm MSD over a period of twenty years, producing 16 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Capiatal, has acquired 200,000 vintage prints works, documented on film in various forms and has received a major grant from the Andrew W. from the Magnum Photo Agency. Selections Mellon Foundation to work on the Panza from the archive are on display through Sept. 10. formats. Initially, he set up apparatus in his stu - K dio that he had to climb on and applied physical Collection Conservation Initiative—a three-year restraints that he struggled with in order to draw project designed to evaluate the Panza Collection on the wall or the ceiling. He video taped his of Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptual efforts, and produced objects and drawings as works from the 1960s through the 1970s. well. Subsequently, he left the studio for the Prominent in the evaluation are works by outside world and more sophisticated settings, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, and still pursuing the original theory. The resulting Lawrence Weiner. performances—16 in all—are testament to his Said Richard Armstrong, director of the foun - skills: drawings, sculptures, vitrines of objects, dation and museum, “Many of the works in the photographs, video, and film all capture aspects Guggenheim’s Panza Collection are ephemeral of his action. or conceptual and pose unique challenges to curators and conservators who strive to accu- rately exhibit and sustain the work for genera - Museum Mile tions to come…. The ultimate goal of the It takes place in June, rain or shine, hot or Initiative is to establish strategies for exhibiting cold, ready or not. And it took place for the 32nd and effectively preserving the Panza Collection time this year. The Museum Mile Festival on works, which, in turn, will provide essential Fifth Avenue (closed to traffic from 6-9 p.m.) precedents for other cultural institutions grap - Ruth Marten August, 2008 . Altered intaglio (19th century etching). In “Surreal Reinventions,” Palo Alto Art Center, CA. 11 Non-Profit museu mVI EWS Org. U.S. Postage PAID 2 Peter Cooper Road, New York, NY 10010 Permit No. 9513 Right: Baldwin Lee, Alan, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1984, New York, NY Gelatin silverprint. In “Vision, Language, and Influence,” Knoxville Museum of Art, TN

Left: Dennis Stock, Untitled from James Dean: A Memorial Portfolio (James Dean posing in a coffin, seven months before his death, Fairmount, Indiana, 1955), 1956.Vintage gelatin silver print, In “Wanderlust,” Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, OK

Promos continued from page 2 Art on the Lawn Bare Truth in Body Art + Another promotional event held at the Freeport Art Museum , and staffed by the “A great way to spend a fabulous spring day Empty Bowls, Full Hearts Freeport High School art department is the with your family,” exclaims a notice sent by the In conjunction with its exhibition “In the Annual Empty Bowls Soup Supper, a Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History Flesh: A Cultural View of Body Art,” the fundraiser for the Freeport Salvation Army (VA). The museum presents its 14th annual “Art Freeport Art Museum (IL) presented a Tattoo food pantry, FACC, and Friends Forever on the Lawn” day featuring “great art and com - Fashion show at a local theater. The event began Humane Society. munity mural painting. Bring a picnic lunch A national event contributing to the fight and enjoy lunch on the lawn, 10 a.m. to 4 against hunger, Empty Bowls was started twen - p.m.” ty years ago by a high school art teacher in Online Competition Michigan. It has become a creative way to inte - grate the arts with humanitarian work; a benefit In conjunction with the exhibition not only to the community but a showcase for “Contemplating the Void: Interventions in local talent. the Guggenheim,” in which some 200 artists, Some 300 bowls were made by architects, and designers were invited to students at the high school; other bowls were imagine their dream interventions in the donated by local artists and ceramics students at Guggenheim Museum rotunda space, the the community college. Each is hand thrown (NY) held an online competition titled “Re: and glazed. And new this year was a table offer - Contemplating the Void—Create Your Own ing pet bowls where all donations went to the Guggenheim Intervention.” In it, partici - Mathieu Pernot, Un camp pour les Bohémiens, Roger Demetrio , 1944. Friends Forever Humane Society. With the pur - pants were invited to do the same thing: In “The 50JPG (50 Jours pour la Photographie à Genève – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva).” Centre de la Photographie, Geneva chase of a ticket, Guests received a ceramic reimagine the museum’s rotunda and submit with a cocktail hour, followed by the show of bowl, a meal of soup, bread, dessert, and drinks, their ideas by way of Flickr. tattoos and body art. all of which were donated by local businesses. Five winners received a Guggenheim Says the promoter’s notice: “We are still Guests kept their bowls as a reminder that there store gift package including a tote bag, a taking calls for potential models, so if you know are always empty bowls in the world. K Fisheye camera, a book about the making of folks with great body artwork who are will - of the museum, and two admission tickets. ing to share (and bare) it for a live audience, let us know!”