Tag Archives: architecture
Hidden Gems III: The McKinney Avenue Contemporary
Over the course of this summer, we’ve been describing a number of smaller regional museums throughout Texas that have been providing visitors with probing and compelling exhibits – and flourishing as a result. We’ve chronicled the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, a historical museum located on the campus of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas and […]
Richard Estes and the Examination of the Urban
Richard Estes paints images of New York and other urban spaces. A gifted observer and recorder, Estes paints with the eye of an instinctive journalist. But Estes’s paintings, though important contributions to the Photorealist canon, are different from those of his peers. His paintings are often unpeopled and, perhaps as a consequence, the places he depicts […]
The Rediscovery of Depression Era Public Art
Murals from the Depression era are being regularly rediscovered and, more often than not, restored. The works created for the Works Progress Administration – with their idealized representations of struggling Americans and their faith in the virtue of community and cooperation – speak to our current recessionary moment. Once thought unfashionable and outmoded, the murals […]
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