This Saturday the Dallas Museum of Art offered a lecture on dining rooms. When I mentioned this to a friend the response was "could you tell us what is wrong with ours." Well, I don't know if I could have taken away just that, but it was informative none-the less. The title of the lecture … Continue reading The Craftsman Dining Room in Context
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Brown Furniture Takes the Stage at the Dallas Museum of Art
Furniture maker Duncan Phyfe can't seem to secure a special exhibition at the Met (a show which had been scheduled for January, 2010 got the recession axe), but Gustauv Stickley has taken the stage at the Dallas Museum of Art. The show opened February 13th and on my initial visit a few days ago seems … Continue reading Brown Furniture Takes the Stage at the Dallas Museum of Art
360 View: From the Streets to the Museums
Google is looking to do what it has done to the streetscape to the museum. The company has begin taking 360 degree views of the world's museums. I'm not sure bringing the mapview technology indoors can ever replicate art, especially since my test run through the floors of the Freer Gallery in Washington, DC let … Continue reading 360 View: From the Streets to the Museums
Egypt to NY: Take Better Care of Your Obelisk
An Egyptian official has sent off a letter to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Parks Commission saying the city better start taking care of the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, or it would be removed. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said in the letter he was dismayed at … Continue reading Egypt to NY: Take Better Care of Your Obelisk
To be in the Comfort of Freedom
“I never knew but one artist,” wrote the poet Walt Whitman. “and that's Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be, rather than what is.” I am confronted with one of Eakins most notable paintings, Swimming, in the Amon Carter Museum. I've heard it said more than once … Continue reading To be in the Comfort of Freedom
Streisand’s Table, Acquired Taste
Trying to drum up interest in an empire game table these days may be a little like trying to sell a tree after Christmas. The country is just not in the mood for empire. A table coming up at Christie's January 21 seems to have several things going for it beyond a stately and adorned … Continue reading Streisand’s Table, Acquired Taste
Report from NY Protest Over Wojnarowicz Video Removal
Organizers reported five hundred New Yorkers, furious at the Smithsonian Institution's removal of David Wojnarowicz's video, "A Fire in My Belly," from the National Portrait Gallery's current acclaimed "Hide/Seek" exhibition in Washington D.C., marched up Fifth Ave. from the Metropolitan Museum today to the Smithsonian's NYC outpost, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, to express their outrage and … Continue reading Report from NY Protest Over Wojnarowicz Video Removal
Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.24 Million Annual Attendance, Highest Since 2001
Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ends today, June 30, the Museum has announced. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five million. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, ranks among the highest in … Continue reading Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.24 Million Annual Attendance, Highest Since 2001
Leon Levinstein’s Rarely Seen New York City Street Photographs On View at Met Beginning June 8
A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910-1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island. From June 8 through October 17, 2010, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present Hipsters, Hustlers, … Continue reading Leon Levinstein’s Rarely Seen New York City Street Photographs On View at Met Beginning June 8
Rare Guercino Painting Acquired by Kimbell
The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired the painting Christ and the Woman of Samaria, dated to 1619–20, by the Italian artist Guercino, one of the foremost painters of his time. The purchase was announced today by the Museum’s director, Eric M. Lee. The painting dates from Guercino’s early, rarest, and most desirable period, when the … Continue reading Rare Guercino Painting Acquired by Kimbell
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