Museums/Exhibits 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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Black Mountain College: A Progressive Education
Posted on February 21, 2016The “landmark,” “deeply researched,” “curatorial triumph” of an exhibition Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 opens today, February 21st, at UCLA’s Hammer Museum, having finished its successful run […] -
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Fluid Lines, Idealized Forms: The Art of Martin Puryear / Interview with Mark Pascale by David Ebony
Posted on December 18, 2015David Ebony– How important is drawing for a sculptor? Among the most subtle of contemporary American abstract sculptors, Martin Puryear has produced elegant and sometimes astonishing drawings and prints over […] -
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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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A photograph that deals with the real world… Irving Penn, beyond beauty
Posted on October 23, 2015“A photograph that deals with the real world but at the same time seeks to free itself of it.” – Irving Penn, unpublished note, about 2007 Ivy Sanders Schneider- A […]