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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
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) | 30/08/2008
“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) | 28/08/2008
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) | 15/08/2008
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) | 10/08/2008
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) | 23/06/2008
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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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
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) | 03/01/2008
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.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 16/11/2007
A traveling exhibit of Norman Rockwell works opens a cross-country tour Saturday at the Akron Art Museum and highlights the beloved artist's growing acceptance by a mainstream art community that had long spurned him as too kitschy and commercialized....
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ArtCal (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
PowerHouse Arena 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, 718-666-3049 DUMBO November 16, 2007 - January 6, 2008 Web Site Featuring work by Charles Harbutt, Joan Liftin, Jeff Jacobson, Naho Kubota, Suzanne Opton, Rebecca Norris Webb, Sylvia Plachy, Alex Webb, and Lucille Fornasieri Gold. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”...
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Craving Cleveland (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
Masumi shows are up at the Akron Art Museum, CSU, MOCA and (next weekend) Spaces.Next Tuesday John Waters is speaking at EJ Thomas Hall.Articles like this in the Plain Dealer are annoying. I know it's the travel section but shouldn't the local paper be urging us to spend money in our city'Alton Brown's meatloaf recipe is good but next time I would cut down on the garlic cloves.Last night I was
