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A Longhouse Birdhouse (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
DOROTHEA TANNING I stood before this painting today for a good 15 minutes after being stuck away in the woods all week. It's nice to visit a town. And to be allowed in free to see such a painting as Dorothea Tanning's To the Rescue . On the same floor with a Mark Rothko, a gruelling oil by Ivan Albright, and a small but enduring Rauschenberg exhibit holding up everything from the first floor. Dorothea...
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The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
From Prospect Magazine , 'One difference between the avant-garde in classical music and in visual art, however, is that late 20th-century music was apt to defy these organising principles, while visual art did not. Although some viewers may fret that they cannot understand what is in front of them, it takes no more cognitive effort to “see” a painting by Mark Rothko than it does to look...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art announces Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, an exhibition of highlights from Dartmouth College’s collection of the art of the past fifty years. From September 26, 2009, through March 15, 2010, the second-floor galleries of the museum will feature art from the permanent collection of post-1945 painting and sculpture, including impressive works by Mark...
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Fantastic Journal (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
I've been watching Mad Men. A little late but with the zeal of the newly converted. The show has started its third season in the US, but the first two have already been shown in BBC4 over here, so apologies for the untimely nature of this post. There is a chi-chi shop called Mid Century Modern near my house which sells 1950's and '60's furniture. The term mid-century modern has become synonymous with...
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Wired Space (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
From the outside, the van is nondescript. It doesn't even have a diagonal red stripe. But inside, a hard-traveling team of art conservators packs an arsenal of high tech gear: an atomic-force microscope, a micro-Raman spectroscope, a nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometer. They're like the A-Team, only with black turtlenecks and Gauloises. The mobile laboratory — aptly code-named MoLab —...
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PORT (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Tomorrow, Willamette Transit Bridge Architect Donald MacDonald will address Portland's design community at a sold out (i.e. capacity) crowd at AiA's Portland Office. A few weeks ago PORT broke the story on the new"A" bridge and it was further expanded on by Bike Portland and Portland Architecture ... given the massive traffic we got, I suspect there will be more media types at the meeting...
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Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
["White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)"; Mark Rothko*, 1950] Lonesomeness. Morandi, Cezanne, it's all about lonesomeness. And Rothko. Especially Rothko. Separation from what heals us .............................. beyond painting, beyond art. Words and paint, black notes, white notes. Music and landscape; music, landscape and sentences. Gestures for which there is no balm, no...
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Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia wants your vote, through August 9, on the top 18 most accomplished Jewish-Americans. The museum's website invites the public to help decide which 18 past and present Jewish Americans should be recognized in a major museum exhibition To be called the "Only in America" gallery, the permanent, ground-floor exhibition will serve as...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
The works of two influential painters, JMW Turner and Mark Rothko, are being brought together in an exhibition to show the artists' similarities.
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