NEWS
By Glenn McNatt | February 11, 2007
Everybody loves to love the Impressionists -- think of their shimmering colors, pretty girls, handsome men and bucolic landscapes, all rendered in a serviceable evergreen style you don't have to have an advanced degree in art history to appreciate. PISSARRO: CREATING THE IMPRESSIONIST LANDSCAPE / / Through May 13 / / The Baltimore Museum of Art / / 443-573-1700 or artbma.org
ENTERTAINMENT
By Glenn McNatt | October 31, 1999
Movie actor Vincent Price, who in his offscreen life was a passionate art lover and collector, entitled his memoirs "I Know What I Like," a phrase that summed up the attitude of connoisseurs in the days before art history was a subject routinely taught to college undergraduates.At the turn of the century, knowing what one liked meant making the grand tour of Europe to study the great masterpieces of the past, then judiciously applying that knowledge and experience to the development of one's own judgment and taste.
FEATURES
By Holly Selby | November 5, 1999
A director of a New York university gallery known for her ability to communicate with both artists and audiences has been hired by the Baltimore Museum of Art to curate contemporary art exhibitions and to oversee the reinstallation of the museum's contemporary art wing.Helen Molesworth, an assistant professor and the director of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, will begin her new job in January. She will step into a curatorial position unfilled since early 1998 -- when Brenda Richardson resigned after holding the job for 23 years.
NEWS
By Timothy B. Wheeler | May 7, 1998
The longtime chairman of art history has been appointed dean of arts and sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, assuming leadership of a school that has been troubled by the defection of distinguished faculty members.Herbert L. Kessler, the Charlotte Bloomberg professor of art history, was approved as dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences during a telephone conference yesterday of the executive committee of the university's board of trustees.Kessler is the second new dean announced this week.
NEWS
By Timothy B. Wheeler | May 7, 1998
The longtime chairman of art history has been appointed dean of arts and sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, assuming leadership of a school that has been troubled by the defection of distinguished faculty members.Herbert L. Kessler, the Charlotte Bloomberg professor of art history, was approved as dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences during a telephone conference yesterday of the executive committee of the university's board of trustees.Kessler, 56, is the second new dean announced this week.
FEATURES
By John Dorsey | August 3, 1997
To look at Georgia O'Keeffe 81 times through the lens of Alfred Stieglitz is to watch someone you thought you knew slowly become an enigma.Gone is the flinty-looking, aged icon of the Southwest, our image of O'Keeffe for decades before her death in 1986. In its place, Stieglitz gives us a much younger O'Keeffe, in photographs taken between 1917 and 1937. More important, the O'Keeffe he presents is not a single entity, but a prismatic, multifaceted presence.The 81 photographs are presented as a single work of art. Called "Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz," it is on view at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.It stands as one of the most unusual portraits in all of art history, and more besides: It is also a drama of human emotion as revealed by the human body, a record of one of the century's great love affairs, a set of variations on early 20th-century modernism, and a successful collaboration by two of the era's most famous artists.
FEATURES
By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | March 3, 1996
We are spending a month or two in France and would like information on art schools or studios that offer painting and ceramics courses in English. What time of year would be best?The summer months offer the best opportunities for English-speakers to study art in Paris as well as in the provinces.In Pont-Aven, the village on the Brittany coast where Gauguin painted, Caroline Boyle-Turner, an art historian at the Rhode Island School of Design, runs summer art courses for English-speaking students at the Pont-Aven School of Art. The classes -- in painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, French and art history -- have six to 12 students.
ENTERTAINMENT
By John Dorsey | October 17, 1996
Doug Baldwin has made a career of ducks. His ceramic sculptures all have ducks in them, and the subjects of his art include everything from art college to art history. If it's not too much of a contradiction in terms, Baldwin's creations are subtly hilarious. You giggle internally, if not necessarily out loud.Right now, he's having a show called "Duck Art History Revised" at Baltimore Clayworks. Every piece is a reproduction of a famous work of art history -- Munch's "The Scream," van Gogh's "Bedroom in Arles," Picasso's "Girl Before a Mirror" -- with a duck, or ducks, in each one. You should go. You owe yourself a giggle.
NEWS
By John Dorsey | May 12, 1996
For decades, the huge Tiepolo painting hung in a prominent position at the top of the Walters Art Gallery's grand staircase. Despite its impressive size -- 9 feet by 16 feet -- it was largely ignored by visitors and art scholars.Then, one day in 1993 the roof leaked right on it.And the Tiepolo was launched on a restoration odyssey that would reclaim its original vibrant beauty and place it among the most important examples of the great 18th-century painter's early works.The newly restored painting -- a colorful, dramatic work depicting an event in Roman history -- and its tale of redemption go on view today in the exhibit "Tiepolo Unveiled: The Restoration of a Masterpiece."
NEWS
By Holly Selby | December 17, 1995
MONTGOMERY, ALA. -- Climb three steps onto the wide front porch filled with broken chairs and an upended mattress, walk through the worn sitting room, step into what should be the living room. For a moment, it is too dim to see anything.Then, there he is -- Mose Tolliver sits as if on a throne, on the edge of a big metal bed. The shades are drawn. Blasts of air whoosh from an antique gas stove. As the eyes adjust, the cautious movements of small brown roaches are apparent. And everywhere are paintings: vivid splashes against bright pink walls.