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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
All across the globe, at all hours of the day, a child somewhere is playing with his food. Luckily for us, some of those kids grow up and continue to do so, providing us with some of the craziest — and most enticing — meals good enough to frame. We love to look at them so we scoured the internet to find our favorites, and, well, now we're just hungry. A look at some more of the most delectable,...
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ArtCal (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Wallspace Gallery 619 West 27th Street, ground floor, 212-594-9478 Chelsea October 30 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Friday, October 30, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Wallspace is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner. This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Images point to what is in the world; that is the problem with representation....
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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...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In light of recent controversies, most folks who care about art know that it's a really big deal for a museum to even think of unloading a masterpiece. (Consider Brandeis University's attempt to sell off the collection of its Rose...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
An "astounding new show" at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum "makes it indisputable: Nowhere in the Boston area is it possible to get, in one gulp, a comparable sense of the excitement engendered by European and especially American modernism." If that had been better known, might the Rose's troubles have been avoided'...
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's new novel, The Museum of Innocence, is now on bookshelves. Not yet available to the public is the corresponding real-world museum he is in the midst of building, which will open next year. In Pamuk's novel, the protagonist, Kemal, collects artifacts of his beloved, and ultimately uses them to construct a shrine to her, which he calls the Museum of Innocence. The physical...
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Art History Newsletter (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Former Northwestern University dean Rudolph H. Weingartner and Princeton University Art Museum director James Christen Steward duel in the pages of Inside Higher Ed over the Rose Art Museum. Weingartner: … I said to myself “good for them” when reports first surfaced last winter that Brandeis intended to sell its collection of modern art, so that [...]
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Exhibitionist (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The Daily News Tribune's account of the Rose Art Museum's opening portrays a pretty colorful night. You have Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz letting everyone know the "Rose is open." Then we have his wife not so pleased with students...
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Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Rose Art Museum, former home of the Brandeis art collection (Photo: Guardian) The debate continues. Here are two different takes on whether colleges should have the right to sell their art collections. Avoiding the Next Brandeis Scott Jaschik Inside Higher Ed Brandeis Wasn’t Wrong Rudolph H. Weingartner Inside Higher Ed
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Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Photo: Boston Globe Brandeis University has agreed not to sell artwork given by three donors who sued to stop it from closing the Rose Art Museum and selling pieces of its collection. The Waltham school also agreed Tuesday to give the state Attorney General 30 days notice and the chance for review if it decides to sell [...]
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
-- Star power: Eva Longoria Parker was in Washington on Tuesday to drum up support for the planned National Museum for the American Latino. (Miami Herald) -- Legal wrangling: Brandeis University said it would delay the sale of key artwork...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Brandeis University has agreed not to sell artwork given by three donors who sued to stop it from closing the Rose Art Museum and selling pieces of its collection.
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
WALTHAM - Brandeis University has agreed not to sell artwork given by three donors who sued to stop it from closing the Rose Art Museum and selling pieces of its collection. The...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
BOSTON A Suffolk Probate Court judge denied yesterday a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by three members of the Rose Art Museum’s board of overseers to prevent Brandeis University from closing the museum and selling the artwork, said Edward Terry Dangel, attorney for the plaintiffs. At the hearing, the university agreed it would not sell any of the artwork ...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
-- Archaeological find: A new discovery of a small stone henge near the famous Stonehenge in England sheds light on how the monument was constructed. (Los Angeles Times) -- Taking one for the team: A survey shows that approximately one-third...
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