Consuming Interests (Free subscription) | yesterday
As part of baltimoresun.com's 10Spot, 10 weeks of counting down to 2010, we've been soliciting ideas for Baltimore's 10 best bargains.Well, we've whittled down the candidates to the following 10 winners --- all great ways to stretch your dollar in...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
BMA gift shop, Ravens vs. Steelers and more HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT THE BMA: The museum shop offers gifts based on recent exhibits at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive. See publisher Taschen's take on Matisse, enjoy Poe-inspired Victorian Goth jewelry and round out shopping with brunch at Gertrude's. The shop opens at 11 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday. Go to artbma.org.
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
"Like LA's MOCA, Brandeis' Rose Art Museum suffered from not permanently displaying its permanent collection." -- Christopher Knight via Twitter. 'Twas a weekend during which closely-related stories came together to reveal an under-considered truth: Contemporary art museums that collect and that don't commit themselves to their collections are creating problems for themselves. In the Boston...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
PICK D'Amelio Terras 525 West 22nd Street, 212-352-9460 Chelsea November 7 - December 23, 2009 Opening: Saturday, November 7, 6 - 8 PM Web Site D’Amelio Terras is pleased to present “Blossom,” the debut of a new sculpture in five examples by Tony Feher. This fan-fold sculpture marks the artist’s latest venture with a familiar material in a new form as well as a shift in scale...
New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Luke Hayman designs the catalogue for a new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse. On view October 25, 2009 – January 3, 2010, "Matisse as Printmaker" unites the BMA’s extraordinary collection of Matisse prints with a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, a non-profit arts organization,...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
A new BMA exhibit reveals the evolution of Matisse's printmaking F or Henri Matisse, the object of drawing was not to display technical dexterity, but "to give simplicity and spontaneity to the expression, which should speak without clumsiness, directly to the mind of the spectator." His successful realization of that goal can be richly appreciated in the Baltimore Museum of Art's new exhibit...
Clef Notes (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Eearlier this week, I attended a preview of the Baltimore Museum of Art's extraordinary exhibit, "Matisse as Printmaker," which opens Sunday. Among the 150 or so prints, all of them worth a long look, are two portraits of Alfred Cortot,...
Une Vie Chic (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Yesterday was one of those days that was so beautiful you don't want it to end. A day when you feel like God was smiling, and things fell into place for a reason. A day to celebrate and twirl on the sidewalk, not caring who saw. G and I made the mistake of not doing enough when in England. You know how it goes, you get busy, or you tell yourself you'll do it another time. You tell yourself it costs...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Nine months ago we celebrated the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth in Boston, Massachusetts. Today marks 160 years since that author’s mysterious demise in Baltimore, Maryland.In commemoration (and perhaps also to firm up Baltimore’s claim to Poe’s legacy, which has been disputed by Philadelphia in the recent past), the city has scheduled a series of appropriately...
Daily Painters International Art Gallery (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Matisse Wine Label 12 x 10 inches Oil Painting Connoisseur Wine Masters Series Wow...this was a lot of detail to do in this one. Took me days and layers of glazes drying in between but I love the end result. Matisse was a real talent and must have had a fun personality as this is what I felt when I was creating this wine label painting . The excerpt for the label was from Matisse 's painting "...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
(Relaxnews) - On October 2, to celebrate the exhibition of Andy Warhol: The Last Decade , the Milwaukee Art Museum, an architectural landmark by Eero Saarinen and Santiago Calatrava will light up pink. The first US museum to focus a show on the seminal pop artist's final years, the survey runs through January 3, 2010, before heading on a national tour.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
BALTIMORE, MD.- In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, The Baltimore Museum of Art presents a dramatic exhibition of prints, drawings and illustrated books inspired by the master of the macabre. Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon, on view October 4, 2009-January 17, 2010, features the works of renowned French artists Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, and Odilon...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
BMA exhibit illustrates themes of love/loss, fear/terror, madness/obsession found in writer's tales Menacing ravens, peering eyes, black cats and rats, ominous bells, violent eddies - imagery that fueled many a text by Edgar Allan Poe, and generated a good deal of art. For its contribution to the bicentennial commemoration of the author's birth, the Baltimore Museum of Art has put together a dynamic...
Blackadelic Pop (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Illustration by Larry Scott “Nights on Broadway” is a hip-hop story in every sense of the word. Not only does it take place in the world of graffiti during the years that Kool Herc and company were creating new sounds from old records, but it is also a remixed version of another story I wrote a few years ago. Entitled “The King of Broadway,” it originally ran on the provocative...
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