Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art ARTNews on Crystal Bridges
I should have posted this ARTNews article about Crystal Bridges sooner, but better late than never. Author Patricia Failing has done the best job so far, I think, writing about the art in the collection, but then she is a professor of arts history at the University of Washington at Seattle and not a glib reporter who writes from a more limited arts background, like yours truly. Failing has made one teeny error, however — she identified the Arkansas Times as a supporter of the Walton Family. As all Times readers know, that's hardly the case. No matter. I must admit to being thrilled to see something I've written, teeny sentence though it is, quoted in ARTNews!
Failing's views:
Hartley’s 1940 Madawaska—Arcadian Light—Heavy, a portrait of a young boxer with glowing nipples, is especially arresting and well displayed. Crystal Bridges founding curator Chris Crosman’s description of the painting is not coy about its homoerotic allure: the painting, he writes, “reveals Hartley’s full-blown embrace of homosexual desires that up to this point had remained hidden in stylized imagery, encoded in mystical symbols, or subsumed in representations of nature’s heaving rhythms.” ... The early-20th-century room wraps up with a 1936—37 Arshile Gorky still life, which could have been hung in the modern-and-contemporary gallery with an early ho-hum Pollock and a 1946 psuedo-Surrealist painting by David Smith. ... The most ambitious is “Wonder World,” a survey of approaches to “realism” by contemporary artists. Assembled by curatorial director David Houston, formerly chief curator at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the show is both witty and routine—Dan Flavin versus photorealist Richard Estes. This exhibition subverts conventional wisdom about the museum’s collection with several artworks, including a John Baldessari sound sculpture, Nam June Paik’s multimedia portrait of John Cage, an inlaid wood installation by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Roxy Paine’s steel-and-plastic Bad Lawn, Al Souza’s fantastic jigsaw-puzzle collage, and holograms by James Turrell, who was also commissioned to create one of his “skyspaces” for the museum.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Exhibitions Gaultier in Dallas: Fashion as art
Friends who've just gotten back from seeing "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk" at the Dallas Museum of Art not once but three times suggest that I recommend that you get yourself to Dallas before Feb. 12 to see the show. If you can't get to Dallas, it will show at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco from March 24 to Aug. 19.
Friends say they've never seen crowds like the ones at the Gaultier show. I admit to have a huge weakness for seeing fashion, and since it's unlikely I'll get to Dallas in time, I'll have to content myself with the dresses of Mia Hall now on exhibit in the “UALR Faculty Biennial”:
The dress in the foreground of the photograph (obviously taken before the show was completely hung) is made entirely of stitched paper towels, and the back of the dress opens to find rubber gloves and cleaning supplies — all those thing every bride needs! — in a built in shelf. In the background is "Did Feminism Kill the "Female Art"?" made of crocheted cotton and resin.
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Museums Old State House lecture: Laverne Feaster
Laverne Feaster, who worked with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service for 39 years, will talk about her childhood at Big Dixie plantation at noon Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the Old State House Museum, as a part of its Brown Bag Series.
Feaster attended the private Arkadelphia Cotton Plant Presbyterian Academy in Cotton Plant so she could advance beyond the 8th grade, the extent of education in the segregated public school system in which her mother taught. She earned a BS degree from Tennessee State University in Nashville and a MED degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She was also appointed by Governors Clinton and Tucker to the Commission for Arkansas’ Future and the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission.
Admission is free. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch; beverages are provided.
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Exhibitions Donnangelo at Thea Wednesday
Potter Janet Donnangelo of Russellville is exhibiting her work at the Thea Center starting tomorrow, Feb. 8. The Florida native's work incorporates objects and hews to its source material with earth- and nature-toned glazes. The show will run through March 2.
Donnangelo's work will share the spotlight with the winners of the annual Thea Visual Arts Competition for high school juniors and seniors. Reception is planned for Argenta's Third Friday ArtWalk on Feb. 17.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Exhibitions Scholarship winners at Thea Center
Artwork by winners of the Thea Foundation's 2012 Visual Arts Competition for junior and senior high school students goes on display today at the Thea Center, 401 Main St., NLR.
Ten seniors won college scholarships ranging between $4,000 for first place to $2,000 for 10th. First place winner was Tulsi Patel (Morrilton High), whose work is shown above. Other scholarship winners were Valeria Chavez (El Dorado High), Michaela Osborne (Bentonville High), Derek Schultz (North Little Rock High), Austin Benson (Morrilton High), Katie Connelly (El Dorado High), Cole Harken (Morrilton High), Darren Waddles (Mountain View High), Haley Martin (Lake Hamilton High) and Eun Ha (Little Rock Central High). Three winners from Morrilton — something good happening in that art department there, looks like. There were also seven seniors who won honorable mentions.
First place for juniors, who compete for $100 prizes, went to Emmanuelle Esters of North Little Rock High. Sergio Garcia and Rebecca Richmond, also of NLR High, Jamie Freeman of Cabot, Chris Graham of Benton, Holly Roomsburg of El Dorado, MacKenzie Thompson of Little Rock, Angela Eichhorn of Searcy, and Morgan Thompson and Rebekah Cooley of Paris also won $100. There were five honorable mention winners.
The theme for the work is “Happy Remembrances of the Holiday Season,” taken from the late Thea Kay Leopoulos’ journal entry “Christmas.”
A total of $25,000 in scholarship money was awarded to for seniors and $1,000 in cash prizes to juniors.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Oldenburg at Eleven
It's been pointed out to me that it makes perfect sense that Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has installed Claes Oldenburg's "Alphabet/Good Humor" sculpture of a melting popsicle of letters in its restaurant. Now, you can see the drip off one side.
When it comes to art, A. Walton is something of a Good Humor Woman. She enjoys playful art. Me too, even if the flesh tone/brain form on the Oldenburg makes it hard to love at first.
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Hot Springs Gallery Walk So what the heck is sumi-e?
I'm sure everyone who reads Eye Candy knows what sumi-e is, but in case not, here's a succinct definition from Wikipedia:
The goal is not simply to reproduce the appearance of the subject, but to capture its soul. To paint a horse, the ink wash painting artist must understand its temperament better than its muscles and bones. To paint a flower, there is no need to perfectly match its petals and colors, but it is essential to convey its liveliness and fragrance. East Asian ink wash painting may be regarded as an earliest form of expressionistic art that captures the unseen.
Sumi-e paintings by Ann Shedelbower should give you the picture tonight at Blue Moon Fine Art, 718 Central Ave., Hot Springs. The gallery will be open after hours for Gallery Walk, 5-9 p.m.; the artist will be there and will display some of the brushes and tools she uses in her work.
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Hot Springs Gallery Walk Taylor's Contemporanea: Ingrid Gipson
Ceramic sculpture by German-born artist Ingrid Gipson goes on exhibit today at Taylor's Contemporanea, 204 Exchange St., off Central. The gallery will be open 5-9 p.m. for Hot Springs' monthly Gallery Walk.
Her artist statement:
I perceive myself as a story teller, one that might through my work, inspire others. To be enchanted by the discovery of the many unexpected role models in Religion, Mythology, Psychology, Anthropology, Philosophy as well as Art, ancient to modern.
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Exhibitions Laman Library: Women in baseball
"Linedrives and Lipstick: The Untold Story of Women’s Baseball" opens today at the Laman Library in North Little Rock and All-American Girls Professional League player Dolly Brumfield White will be on hand for the after-hours reception, which begins at 6 p.m. and is open to the public.
"Linedrives and Lipstick" features picture postcards, game programs, photographs, posters and magazine articles from such publications as Colliers, Liberty and the Saturday Evening Post to tell the stories of such players as Jackie Mitchell, who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in 1931, and Sophie Kurys of the South Bend Blue Sox, who still holds the record for the most stolen bases in one season in any league (201 steals in 203 attempts in 1946).
White played for the South Bend Blue Sox, Kenosha Comets and Fort Wayne Daisies.
The show comes from the ExhibitsUSA touring program.
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Hot Springs Gallery Walk Gallery 726: Teri Levine
Gallery 726 tonight is featuring the work of Teri Levine, an Atlanta artist, art teacher and art therapist. The gallery, at 726 Central Ave., will be open from 5-9 p.m. tonight for Hot Springs' monthly Gallery Walk.
Exhibiting with Levine are visual artists Shirley Anderson, Barbara Seibel, Sue Shields, Caryl Joy Young, Pati Trippel and Gary Weeter; jewelry designer Marlene Gremillion; potter Janet Donnangelo; aluminum sculptor Russell Lemond, glass artists Michael Riley and Charles Riley and wood turner Ken Vonk. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays in January and February. In March the gallery will also be open on Tuesdays.
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Exhibitions Taliaferro: "Women of a New Tribe"
- Taliaferro image
- "Veronica with Mask"
Photographer Jerry Taliaferro, who premiered the exhibition "Women of a New Tribe" at the Afro-American Culture Center in his hometown of Charlotte, N.C., has brought the exhibit to Fayetteville, where he took photos of local women to include in the show: A UA student, a doctor, a hair stylist, a minister ... women from all walks of life. The exhibition runs through April in the UA's Mullins Library lobby.
From a press release on the show:
Taliaferro presents his subjects in the dramatic, high-glamour style reminiscent of the photography of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood. The photographs explore different themes, such as tribal beauty, portraiture and family relationships. Taliaferro explains that the exhibit’s title was inspired by hearing Toni Morrison refer to African Americans as “New World Africans” in an interview on National Public Radio. This resonated with Taliaferro who believed that “African Americans are a new people born of this new American experience.”
A native of Brownsville, Tenn., Taliaferro joined the Army in 1972 and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1977. His interest in photography began when he was posted to Fort Bragg, N.C., for Special Forces training and continued to grow while serving in Germany, where his work was first published in a Munich magazine. After returning to the U.S., Taliaferro left the military for a career in commercial photography. As his interests evolved, he turned to the fine arts. The success of this exhibit inspired the publication of Women of a New Tribe: A Photographic Celebration of the Black Woman in 2007.
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Art event Brick artist Sawaya at Clinton Center
Nathan Sawaya, the Lego artist whose work is on display at the Clinton Presidential Center, will be at the library tonight from 6-7 p.m. talking about the exhibit and signing copies of his book, "The Art of the Brick Pictorial" (for sale at the Clinton Museum Store). The exhibit runs through Feb. 12.
Reserve a seat by e-mailing Joy Secuban at jsecuban@clintonfoundation.org or by calling 370-8000.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Exhibitions Reminder: MOCA event, Gallery Walk
“Tin Grizzly First Anniversary Art Event" starts at 7 p.m. tonight at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Hot Springs.
Tomorrow: Friday night is the monthly Gallery Walk at galleries along Central Avenue. Make plans to head to Blue Moon Gallery, 718 Central, to see the sumi e work of Ann Shedelbower; Gallery Central, 800 Central Ave., to see paintings by Doyle Young; Justus Fine Art to see new work by Hugh Dunnahoe; Gallery 726 to see paintings by Teri Levine, Taylor's Contemporanea to see figurative sculpture by Ingrid Gibson and the Malco Theater's student show, "HeART for Art."
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Museums Thursday at MOCA
Tin Grizzly Western art and furniture store at 516 Central Ave. in Hot Springs will hold its first anniversary celebration tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in the old Ozark Bathhouse.
Bronze sculptor Burneta Venosdel will unveil a new work, inspired by Kiowa chief Satanta, at the event, from 7 to 9 p.m. Valerie Hanks will demonstrate pine needle basketmaking, Robbie Robinson will demonstrate silver wire wrapping jewelry and Ron Russell will demonstrate painting on wild turkey feathers.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Huff Post weighs in on Crystal Bridges
Writer Paul Brady goes to colleague Doug Smith to find out a bit more about Bentonville's past. Read the story here. Spokesperson Laura Jacobs is quoted: "We're learning that this is many peoples' first experience with a museum."
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