Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
So says Mathue Shell of Geekstir, who is (presumably) the creator of this photoshop. It’s an adaptation of John Trumbull’s 1795 painting “The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton”, owned by the Yale University Art Gallery. Link via GearFuse
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Sue Scott Gallery 1 Rivington Street, 212-358-8767 East Village / Lower East Side November 17, 2009 - January 10, 2010 Opening: Tuesday, November 17, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Sue Scott Gallery is pleased to announce Unforeseen/Imprevisti , a solo exhibition of photographs by Paola Ferrario. Ferrario searches for surprising details in the urbanized landscape and in cultural artifacts that have been subjected...
San Francisco Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The American Decorative Arts Forum presents a discussion of early American miniatures at the Koret Auditorium By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka Elle Shushan is foremost among American dealers in portrait miniatures. Shushan concentrates on the full range of the art, showing pieces from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with examples from Great [...]
greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Yale just held a panel discussion on conservation and artist intention. This kind of thing drives me a little crazy:Not all work inevitably degrades, though. Some art improves with careful conservation. [Yale University Art Gallery director Jack] Reynolds showed a...
Connecticut Art Scene (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
City Gallery 994 State St., New Haven, (203) 782-2489 Barbara Harder: J Topog Continuum Oct. 22—Nov. 15, 2009. Opening reception: Sat., Oct. 24, 3—6:30 p.m. Press release City Gallery is presenting J Topog Continuum , a mixed media exhibition by artist Barbara Harder , from Oct. 22—Nov. 15, 2009. The Opening Reception is Saturday, Oct. 24 from 3—6:30 PM. Based on observations...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale University Art Gallery has reframed Old Mill (The Morning Bell) by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Oil on canvas, dated 1871, 24 x 38 1/8. The painting was in a simple fluted cove style frame not original to the work. The new period frame selected for the painting is an American period frame of the 1870s, with successive rows of ornament that lead the eye into the composition,...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Von Lintel Gallery 520 West 23rd Street, 212-242-0599 Chelsea October 15 - November 14, 2009 Opening: Thursday, October 15, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Mark Sheinkman. The show, the artist’s eleventh one-person exhibition in New York and his seventh with Von Lintel Gallery, will run from October 15 through November 14, 2009....
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
NEW HAVEN, CT.- Continuous Present features a selection of work by 11 of today's most compelling contemporary artists working in a broad array of media, including film, video, photography, painting, and sculpture. The artists chosen for the show are Francis Alÿs, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Rodney Graham, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Thomas Nozkowski, Gabriel Orozco, Laura Owens, Dieter Roth, and...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
NEW HAVEN, CT.- For printmaking in America, the twenty years following the Second World War were a dynamic and innovative period during which artists fundamentally reconsidered the boundaries of the medium. The Yale University Art Gallery offers a special exhibition featuring American and European émigré artists whose work in intaglio printmaking was marked by this new impulse for experimentation....
New Haven Independent (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Louise Bourgeois, Pillar, 1947-49, wood and stainless steel Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
The Lone Persian The body of a Persian Empire soldier was found lying alone in a mine where the Persians executed the first known gas attack on Roman Empire soldiers attempting to hold down a fort. He is still clad in his iron mail shirt, his helmet and sword near his feet. Yale University Art Gallery, Dura-Europos Excavation Archive Earliest Chemical Warfare Felled Roman Fort -- Discovery News A cramped...
New Haven Independent (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Barry Le Va, Plus, Minus: Backward, Forward , 1967/2009, felt Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St. Through Aug. 24
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
When Mimi Gates moved to Seattle in 1994 to be director of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), it was the museum's superb Asian collection that had lured her away from the Yale University Art Gallery after 19 years working there, 12 as curator and seven as director). At Yale, she had championed Oriental art within both the museum and community, backed by her doctorate from the university in Chinese art history....
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Aera (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University will host an exhibit of work by Pablo Picasso.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
BOSTON, MA.- Since 1979 the Drawing Show has been a widely anticipated hallmark of the BCA 's programming. This juried exhibition has allowed the BCA to work with more than five hundred artists and guest curators. Proposals are welcome from all artists and designers who explore drawing as a medium in their work.
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