Andrea Kirsh runs down to Richmond to check out the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and touch base with its Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Education, Michael Taylor. We at Artblog remember Michael fondly when he was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the PMA! It looks as if he’s brought some of his Philly love to the VMFA with acquisitions of works by Tristin Lowe and Daniel Heyman! Andrea reports.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh rounds up books for your biblio-pals who love art and are waiting for a nice art book to come their way. Here she talks about a sumptuously-illustrated book on Kandinsky; a fun book about artists’ personal libraries (with pictures!); and a book showing the Carrie Mae Weems’s seminal “Kitchen Table Series” in its entirety. Read on!
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh writes about a decorative installation by Talia Greene at Glen Foerd that draws attention to a historic house’s wealthy’s occupants and the hidden story of the poor workers who built it, tended it, and served the owners. She says the historic house’s current caretakers are making some of the hidden histories visible on their website.
Read MoreArtblog contributor Andrea Kirsh shares some notable niche periodicals that she recently discovered in the entry area of MoMA PS1. The art institution is dedicated solely to contemporary art, and has annually hosted Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair for the last several years, so it seems fitting for them to carry their own large selection of art, design and visual culture periodicals. Andrea casts light on this typically overshadowed genre.
Read MoreArtblog’s Andrea Kirsch reviews an inspired exhibition at The Modern Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, which she discovered on her recent trip to Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana. “The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents” is a recreation of a 1989 exhibit, which after nearly three decades allows audiences to witness a transitional moment in Yugoslavia’s history with a new lens.
Read MoreAndrea shepherds us to the French coastal town Dunkerque to review the exhibition at Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine (LAAC) organized by composer and musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur. She writes, “While tracing familiar territory, it offered a broad view of the subject and a number of surprises with artists, both earlier and contemporary, who were new to me….This exhibition succeeded with a challenge that faces many museums today: how to present work and ideas that stimulate a knowledgeable audience while offering something for a more general public which may not be familiar with contemporary art.”
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