In 1968 artist Joan Mitchell moved from Paris to La Tour, a country estate in Vétheuil that overlooks the Seine as well as a cottage where Claude Monet lived and worked from 1878 to 1881. While Mitchell was known as an Abstract Expressionist painter in New York and Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, her … Continued
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In April 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright mounted an exhibit on a project he called Broadacre City, which proposed radical changes to cities and how we live in them. A veritable Trojan horse that challenged the very urbanity of the space in which it was installed, Broadacre City called for widespread decentralization whereby communities would be … Continued
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Beginning in the 16th century in Europe, collectors assembled Wunderkammern, so-called cabinets of curiosity designed to evince wonder and awe. These collections housed weird and sometimes wild conjunctions of the natural and the man-made, the local and the exotic. Claudia Swan, the inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil professor of Art History at Washington University in St. … Continued
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Museums have always been in the education business, but over the past 50 years, what it means to support public education has changed significantly. Change has occurred on several fronts, including change in how researchers and the public understand and define the nature of learning and change in the appreciation of the critical role that … Continued |
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Artist Faye HeavyShield will speak about her creative practice and the collection-based installation Native Artist Collaboration: Faye HeavyShield in the Donald Danforth Jr. Gallery 322. Among the leading First Nations artists in Canada, HeavyShield belongs to the Kainai (Blood) Nation, a member of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) with ancestral territories in southern Alberta. Faye HeavyShield: Confluences, … Continued
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