Donor Intent Champion: Tennessee Attorney General Robert Cooper Jr. Okay, so I'm violating my no-blogging rule twice in one day (one hour, actually). I break promises for important news. This just in from the Tennessee Attorney General's Office---a request for permission from the State Supreme Court to appeal the Tennessee Court of Appeals decision that would allow Fisk … [Read more...] about New Fisk Appeal Request: Tennessee AG Again Defends Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Explicit Instructions”
Archives for January 2012
Where’s CultureGrrl?
Name That Curator (and name that museum)!Photo taken Jan. 27 by Lee RosenbaumI've been to DC and West Palm Beach, among other venues. But if you're not following me on Twitter, you're not up to speed on some of what I've done lately and who I saw. (However, I haven't tweeted about my wide-ranging discussion with the person pictured above).You also don't know what I think about … [Read more...] about Where’s CultureGrrl?
My WSJ Piece on “Shapeshifting” at Peabody Essex: A Photo-and-Video Companion
You can now read online my piece that will be on tomorrow's "Leisure & Arts" page of the Wall Street Journal. Artifacts to Artworks is my take on the Peabody Essex Museum's Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art. Let me supplement this article with my own photographs illustrating the works that I discuss. Here's the "may not be suitable for children" piece … [Read more...] about My WSJ Piece on “Shapeshifting” at Peabody Essex: A Photo-and-Video Companion
Coming Tomorrow: My WSJ Piece on Peabody Essex’s “Shapeshifting” Show
Karen Kramer Russell, Peabody Essex Museum's curator of Native American art and culture, discussing a painted hide shield cover, Upper Missouri River, c. 1820, National Museum of Natural History, on display at the PEM's new "Shapeshifting" exhibitionI'm still here, art-lings. And I do miss you (and the blog)!Your many notes of appreciation for CultureGrrl that I've received … [Read more...] about Coming Tomorrow: My WSJ Piece on Peabody Essex’s “Shapeshifting” Show
Valedictory Post: Thanks from CultureGrrl!
Photo © by Jill Krementz "Thanks from CultureGrrl" has been the subject-line in my recent e-mailed acknowledgements to some 44 supporters (both Repeat Donors and new ones) from 16 states, the District of Columbia and one foreign country (Finland). Individual generosity during my recent three-week fund drive ranged from $5 to $500. In all, I raised $1,945---just shy of my $2,000 … [Read more...] about Valedictory Post: Thanks from CultureGrrl!
De Kooning, Degas, Donatello (to Bellini): Ambitious Loan Shows that Bucked the Permanent-Collection Trend—Part III
Entrance to Boston Museum of Fine Arts' current hit show [Part I is here; Part II is here.]Degas and the Nude at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (to Feb. 5) is one of the most perfectly realized art-museum explorations of a complex subject that I've ever encountered. The initiator of this ambitious undertaking---curator George T.M. Shackelford---gets extra points for focusing on … [Read more...] about De Kooning, Degas, Donatello (to Bellini): Ambitious Loan Shows that Bucked the Permanent-Collection Trend—Part III
Dept. of Bad Taste: Making Light of Attack on Art at Clyfford Still Museum
Suffering damage: "1957-J-No. 2," Clyfford Still MuseumPerhaps I shouldn't be surprised by the many commentators who seem to be finding cause for merriment in the sad damage done last Friday to a painting at the new Clyfford Still Museum, Denver.But AAMD?!?First, the backstory. Joey Bunch of the Denver Post reported this yesterday:A 36-year-old Denver woman, apparently drunk, … [Read more...] about Dept. of Bad Taste: Making Light of Attack on Art at Clyfford Still Museum
De Kooning, Degas, Donatello (to Bellini): Ambitious Loan Shows that Bucked the Permanent-Collection Trend—Part II
De Kooning Devotee: John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art [Part I is here.] Just when I was feeling the old art-exhibition ennui, 2011's two standout U.S. blockbusters---John Elderfield's de Kooning: A Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (to Jan. 9), and George Shackelford's and (from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Xavier … [Read more...] about De Kooning, Degas, Donatello (to Bellini): Ambitious Loan Shows that Bucked the Permanent-Collection Trend—Part II
New Boston Tea Party: MFA’s Malcolm Rogers vs. “Payment in Lieu of Taxes”
Malcolm Rogers, director, Boston Museum of Fine ArtsThere's a misleading, mistaken assumption in Judith Dobrzynski's Real Clear Arts blog yesterday that needs to be corrected. In her most recent post, Judith decries the Association of Art Museum Directors' failure to issue an immediate, forceful statement opposing Boston's planned increase in "payments in lieu of taxes" (PILOT) … [Read more...] about New Boston Tea Party: MFA’s Malcolm Rogers vs. “Payment in Lieu of Taxes”
The Year in CultureGrrl, 2011 Edition
CultureGrrl's Wild Ride: Me, aloft in a cherrypicker last May, at the in-construction Crystal Bridges Museum of American ArtThis annual feature (here, here, here, here and here) has special poignancy for me this year. That's because, with the sputtering (after a strong start) of my three-week Last-Gasp Fund Drive (ending this Friday at 2 p.m.), this 2011 Edition may well be the … [Read more...] about The Year in CultureGrrl, 2011 Edition