Tag Archives: contemporary art
Introducing Our Picasso
In the first installment of our “Behind the Scenes” series we introduced one of our current projects–the authentication of a Picasso drawing–and explained why we were taking such pains to make sure the work consigned to us is an authentic Picasso. Now, in our follow-up, we’d like to introduce you to the work itself: Poire […]
Introducing Our New Series: “Behind the Scenes”
This post marks the start of our “Behind the Scenes” series, in which we’ll bring you inside several of our special long-term projects. In future installments of this series, you can look forward to learning about our research into a selection of mobiles by the famed American sculptor Alexander Calder, and our attempts to authenticate […]
An Introduction to the Artists of the Fort Worth Circle
For most of the 19th century, Texas art was dominated by the Texas Impressionist school: artists keen to apply the lessons of French Impressionism to the Texas environment. While the Texas Impressionists counted among their number many artists of considerable talent – men like Robert Wood, Julian Onderdonk, and Porfirio Salinas – their movement eventually […]
Jim Dine: Finding Humanity in Pop
“Pop is everything art hasn’t been for the last two decades. It’s basically a U-turn back to a representational visual communication, moving at a break-away speed…Pop is a re-enlistment in the world…It is the American Dream, optimistic, generous and naïve.” – Robert Indiana Pop art arose as an independent art movement in the early 1950s […]
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 […]
Hidden Gems II: The Grace Museum
Last month, we published a blog post about how small regional museums have thrived in recent years. Smaller museums, to a greater degree than their larger competitors, have figured out that the best way to attract new visitors and retain longstanding ones is to mount exciting and unexpected exhibitions. We showed how the Panhandle-Plains Historical […]
Hidden Gems: How Regional Museums Are Bringing Great Art to the Public
Small regional museums are thriving in spite of an anemic economy. In fact, many are attracting more visitors than ever. How is this possible? The answer: creativity and ambition. Those museums that are succeeding are doing so because they are mounting inventive exhibitions. Institutions like the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas are giving people […]
The Troubled Tropics: The Art of Rafael Ferrer
Rafael Ferrer was born in Puerto Rico but now lives and works in Long Island’s quiet Greenport Village. He has lived in the leafy suburb since 1999: a kind of living fossil, an artist respected for his longevity but not very well understood by the public. This changed in 2010 when he exhibited at New York’s […]
The Sensual Photorealism of Carolyn Brady
Carolyn Brady reached artistic maturity at a time when America’s artists were reacquainting themselves with the pleasures of realism and figuration. The American art scene of the 1950s had been dominated by the swaggering Abstract Impressionists; the 1960s had seen the emergence of the Pop Artists. In the 1970s, the Photorealists – artists who sought to […]
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 […]
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