Notes from the Field Archive
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Notes from the field — Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
Posted on March 1, 2016Ivy Sanders Schneider– In a 1964 photograph of Alexander Calder’s retrospective at the Guggenheim, children are touching the sculptures. They are blowing on them, pressing against them, kneeling on them. […] -
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Notes from the Field – Donald Blumberg Photographs: The Master Sets
Posted on November 25, 2015Ivy Sanders Schneider– The American photographer Donald Blumberg has the eye of a scientist. Like slides enlarged and displayed, his photographs are data points: watch the news coverage of the […] -
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“Three Stars Shine Brightly at the 56th Venice Biennale: Joan Jonas, Sarah Lucas, and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot” by David Ebony
Posted on July 7, 2015Our special correspondent David Ebony is recently returned from Venice where he took in the sights and sounds of the Biennale, and was generous enough to share his reactions with us. David […] -
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Notes from the Field: The New Whitney
Posted on May 1, 2015To commemorate the official opening to the public of the new location of the Whitney Museum of American Art, our Publisher of Art and Architecture sent these notes from the […] -
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Notes From the Field: Sculpture Victorious at the YCBA
Posted on November 21, 2014Ivy Sanders Schneider– The Sculpture Victorious exhibition at the YCBA greets viewers with two busts of Queen Victoria. The first is of Victoria at 21 – positioned at eye level, […] -
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Notes from the Field: Jewels by JAR at the Met
Posted on December 24, 2013Paris-based artist JAR creates works of sheer amazement and beauty. His jewelry is vibrantly colored, exotic and yet eminently fashionable in its use of both traditional and non-traditional metals and […] -
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Notes from the Field: JFK in the 1960s
Posted on November 20, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks Rebecca Levinsky— A Great Crowd Had Gathered: JFK in the 1960s, on view at the Yale University Art Gallery, captures the essence of Kennedy’s life in the public […] -
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Notes from the Field: The Medium is the Message
Posted on September 27, 2013View the New York Times ‘Interwoven Globe’ Exhibition Slide Show Follow @yaleARTbooks Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 tells a fascinating history of global textile design through the intertwined narratives […] -
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Notes from the Field: Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
Posted on March 20, 2013Monumental is a word often applied to descriptions of Jay DeFeo’s The Rose. With an estimated weight of 2,000-3,000 pounds, “monumental” is hardly a misnomer. However what might strike visitors […] -
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Notes from the Field: Yale University Art Gallery Gala
Posted on December 18, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Congratulations to the Yale University Art Gallery! The brilliantly expanded Gallery formally opened to the public last Wednesday, December 12th, to wide and universal acclaim; doubly covered in […]