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In Commemoration of Lucian Freud
Posted on July 20, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Painter Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, died on this day one year ago, and it is on this anniversary that we reflect on the English artist’s extraordinary […] -
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Character Sketch: The Comic That Inspired Roy Lichtenstein
Posted on June 26, 2012Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, by curators James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff (2012), accompanies an expansive Lichtenstein exhibition currently at the Art Institute of Chicago, later moving to the National Gallery […] -
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How Do We Curate a Global Collection?
Posted on June 19, 2012Contemporary curation must again and again situate art exhibition within a global conversation. The Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art exhibition currently at the Seattle Art Museum affords the museum an […] -
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Notes from the Field: Schiaparelli and Prada at The Met’s Costume Institute
Posted on May 10, 2012“Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations,” which opens today, May 10, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been long awaited by those eager to see firsthand the ties that bind […] -
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Curator Helen Evans Tours the Objects of Byzantium and Islam
Posted on April 24, 2012Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th – 9th Century), the revelatory exhibition now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (accompanied by a rich catalogue of the same […] -
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Changing How We See Native American Art
Posted on April 12, 2012Native fashion is hip: Native American costumes are sold by the thousands every Halloween, partygoers and celebrities are photographed donning pasted feather headdresses, and some sports teams still brand themselves […] -
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Notes from the Field: Whitney Biennial 2012
Posted on April 5, 2012An important, and critically well received, component of this year’s Whitney Biennial is an adeptly curated roster of performance pieces and a frequently updated schedule of film screenings. Punctuating the […] -
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Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s
Posted on March 27, 2012The 80s were tumultuous times. The AIDS crisis brought about the ominous feeling of the end of times, while feminism and movements for social justice challenged tradition and opened possibilities […] -
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“Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude” Opens at the National Gallery, London
Posted on March 16, 2012When we think of J.M.W. Turner, we think of those evocative, ghostly landscapes, where ships, cliffs and trains emerge out of nowhere, half-hidden by mist and rain. We also think […]