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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum has been selected to receive a gift of fifty works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The gifts are part of a national gifts program entitled The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States....
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
AKRON, OH.- In a time when digital cameras and Photoshop reign supreme, the Akron Art Museum is paying homage to the simple plastic camera. This fall the Akron Art Museum challenged Northeast Ohio visitors and local artists to submit photographs rivaling some of the iconic photographers featured in the museum's collection. There was a catch all photographs had to be taken with a
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum has been selected to receive a gift of fifty works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The gifts are part of a national gifts program entitled The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
AKRON, OH.- Inquiring minds want to know How exactly does a kinetic sculptural installation' come to fruition? What makes the sculpture chatter, jump, jitter and sing? Jean-Pierre Gauthier presents today a new exhibition, Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play, in the museum's Karl and Bertl Arnstein galleries. Eleven installations, several of which fill an entire gallery by
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Women's Lens (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
“Use photography as a weapon.” This was John Heartfield’s battle cry in his struggle to prevent the Nazis from gaining power in Germany in the 1930s. Rather than creating documentary photography like many socially conscious photographers of the era, Heartfield created photomontages by combining several separate photographs to create one image with a specific message. John Heartfield vs. Nazi Germany,...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Five favorite things I saw over the course of the summer... 1.) Two super installations at the Akron Art Museum , which is taking full effect of its striking new Coop Himmelblau building: Upon entering the museum's smart new post-war galleries, visitors are greeted by an enormous Lari Pittman: Thankfully, I will have had learned to break glass with sound (1999). While Pittman is one of the most important...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum will expand its mission to enrich lives through modern art -- outside of northeast Ohio -- by lending three of its 1960s pop art masterpieces to major exhibitions across the continent. One of the museum's Andy Warhol Brillo Boxes will go to a major survey of Warhol's works in Columbus titled Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms. Brillo
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
AKRON, OH - Amazingly, nearly 700 works of art were added to the Akron Art Museum’s collection over the past five years despite the fact that the museum was closed from March 2004 to July 2007 for re-construction. While many of the new pieces made their Akron debut when the museum opened its new collection galleries, hundreds of other objects wait to surprise visitors over the next few years. Unveiled:...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
AKRON, OH.- Luminous paintings, stylish furnishings and dazzling decorative objects by the husband and wife team considered to be American Masters of Art Nouveau are featured in California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews . The exhibition opened at the Akron Art Museum and runs through Sunday, September 7, 2008.
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
COLUMBUS - Sometimes a little candy is the reward for taking the bitter medicine. And $1.3 billion buys a lot of candy.
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Not PC (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Here's two serious contenders for the title of world's worst building. On the left (appropriately as you'll see) is the world's twenty-second tallest skyscraper, and Pyongyang's largest hotel -- although since the North Korean capital has few tourists and of those few barely any wish to spend a night in a vertical mausoleum, it remains steadfastly empty. Just as the North Korean economy if
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Veritas et Venustas (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
THE 2008 results are already coming in. Those who don't know Jim Kunstler's work should look at his Eyesores of the Month. Here's the January 2008 Eyesore — you might think it's a Photoshop joke, but it's just another monument to Starchitecture and the human ego (text by Jim and...
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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
Regular readers will know I'm a Norman Rockwell fan. This detail from Art Critic (1955) shows his sense of humour. While the earnest young art critic examines the portrait's pendant with his magnifying glass, the portrait smiles at him in a knowing and very saucy way! Terrific. This oil painting for The Saturday Evening Post is part of a major touring exhibition - American Chronicles: The Art of Norman...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
DENVER, Colo.–The seven sages of antiquity encouraged us to speak no ill of the dead. A comforting thought for museums, where so many of the dear departed habitually reside.
