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California Literary Review (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
So what are today’s landscape artists telling us? In his eponymous show at the Hirshhorn, John Gerrard presents us with scenery that reflects a very different view of America. Rather than inspire us, the Irish artist constructs images that fill us with anxiety, hopelessness and a sense of imminent disaster. And we can’t look away.
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greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
To be honest, I've never felt very interested in the late paintings of Charles Sheeler. After his Precisionist, industrial peak, and his consistently strong, modernist photography, the delicate, highly constructed, cubist/abstract Pennsylvania barn compositions seemed a little twee. They...
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greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Hilary Harris's 1975 Organism feels like a missing link in the chain of film portraits of New York City as a pulsing, living thing. Like Whitman, whose "Leaves of Grass" provided the text for their1921 film Manhatta Paul Strand and...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
By David W. Dunlap and James Estrin Any effort to describe the photography of Lu Guang by reference to the work of other artists would almost certainly invoke the name of W. Eugene Smith. (It is, for instance, just about impossible to look at Slide 4 without thinking of “ Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath .”) So it seems especially fitting that Mr. Lu, a Chinese freelancer, is the recipient of...
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greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Why, I feel just like Alma Thomas, what with my shopping around for a modernist painting technique to use on my Dutch camo Landscape series... Anyway, I headed over to the Phillips Collection in search of Arthur Dove paintings....
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
WASHINGTON, DC.- Best known for revolutionizing the art of photography, American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) produced a prolific collection of striking black-and-white compositions inspired by the African objects they depict. The Phillips Collection showcases these works in a new exhibition that explores the pivotal role photographs played in changing the perception of African objects from artifacts...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum announces that it has acquired a major American painting by the artist Charles Sheeler: Conversation—Sky and Earth, painted in 1940. “The acquisition of this famous landmark painting strengthens the museum’s collection in important ways,” says Rebecca Lawton, curator of paintings and sculpture. “It is beautifully executed, daring...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum announces that it has acquired a major American painting by the artist Charles Sheeler: Conversation—Sky and Earth, painted in 1940. “This superb example of Sheeler's work is a vital addition to our holdings of this important and versatile artist, who until now has been represented in our collection by one drawing, five prints, and six photographs,”...
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greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
News that the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth acquired a painting by Charles Sheeler of the Boulder Dam sent me looking for more, and guess what I found? Sheeler's painting is one of six commissioned in 1938 by...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
The Amon Carter Museum has acquired Charles Sheeler's 1940 Conversation -- Sky and Earth. The painting is one of a series of works Sheeler made for Fortune magazine about America's industrial might. Each of Sheeler's paintings examined electricity, power. Another painting from the series, Suspended Power , is across the metroplex in the Dallas Museum of Art's collection. (Some subjects stay current:...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
In 1991, amid the media carnival that turned the Persian Gulf War into a sideshow, the central figure in television coverage became not a general or a hero sergeant, but a staggering cormorant that had gotten slimed by all the oil that Saddam Hussein (or somebody) was pouring into the local waters...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts closes the 2009 exhibition year and welcomes the new with Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on view in the Ingram Gallery from Oct. 2, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Featuring 45 paintings and eight photographs by such American masters as Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts closes the 2009 exhibition year and welcomes the new with Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on view in the Ingram Gallery from Oct. 2, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Featuring 45 paintings and eight photographs by such American masters as Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles...
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Phil Beard (Free subscription) | 17/07/2009
This image is from the first decade of the last century. It shows the vast industrial complex created by the American Locomotive Company (Alco) at Schenectady and comes from a time when the success of a business could be measured by the volume of atmospheric pollution. More than thirty smokestacks are actively discharging black smoke into the upper air. Mass production of steam locomotives was a brutal...
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greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 23/05/2009
Fritz Goro was the longtime science photographer for LIFE magazine. He covered the Manhattan Project, including shooting at the original Ground Zero. His image of a fetus in an artificial womb inspired Kubrick's 2001. He crafted photo-simulations of x-ray...
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