ArtBabble: Collage

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats

The Jewish Museum, New York — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:46:36 +0000

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Emily Casden, curatorial assistant at The Jewish Museum, tours the exhibition The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats.

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats
The Jewish Museum, New York
September 9, 2011 - January 29, 2012
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-snowy-day-and-keats-exhib...

Tang Museum: Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary

Tang Museum at Skidmore College — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:10:21 +0000

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College

Nearly 50 years after her first solo exhibition in New York City Nancy Grossman’s work is as powerful and relevant today as it was when it was first created. The video Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary was created to bring the artist’s voice directly to the viewer, opening up new ways of understanding a body of complex and sometimes difficult work. It complements the exhibition of the same name currently on view at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

Get To Know Romare Bearden

High Museum of Art — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:09:09 +0000

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"Picasso to Warhol" Get to Know The Modern Masters

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High Museum of Art

Get to know Romare Bearden, one of the fourteen modern masters who redefined the very idea of art. "Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters" is on view at the High Museum of Art (October 15, 2011-April 29, 2012) and is part of a multi-year collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA).

Tang Museum: Artist Fred Tomaselli on the Burden of History

Tang Museum at Skidmore College — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:34:45 +0000

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College

In this video, Fred Tomaselli discusses the “burden of history” that young artists face amongst a vast history of art-making and the influences that inspire his own work.

Tang Museum: Whiting Tennis on the Unconscious Line

Tang Museum at Skidmore College — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:30:03 +0000

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Tang Museum: Opener Series

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College

In this video, Whiting Tennis discusses his first experiences identifying as an artist and the intuitive decisions that often inform his artwork.

Tang Museum: Bradley Castellanos on Nature vs. Civilization

Tang Museum at Skidmore College — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:23:07 +0000

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College

In this video, Bradley Castellanos discusses his interest in landscape, which he sees as a both a reflection of his own interior landscape and of society’s values.

Combining photography, painting, and collage, Castellanos’s work explores the tense relationship between nature and civilization. Much of his recent work depicts figures in forested environments, revealing the beauty and quiet of the natural world among the persistent signs of humans’ destructive actions.

Tang Museum: Artist Fred Tomaselli Looks Back at 20 Years of Artwork

Tang Museum at Skidmore College — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:24:41 +0000

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College

In this video, Fred Tomaselli reflects on experiencing his solo exhibition, Fred Tomaselli, and looking back over twenty years of his art.

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914: Picasso's Collage Materials

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:42:47 +0000

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Behind the Scenes at MoMA

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914

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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914
The Museum of Modern Art, February 13-June 6, 2011

Produced by CK Studios, Inc.

Hide/Seek: "The Mouses's Tale" by Jess (Burgess Collins)

National Portrait Gallery — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:37:04 +0000

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Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

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National Portrait Gallery

Discussion by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of “Hide/Seek” and Chair of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at SUNY-Buffalo.

Robert Rauschenberg: Elegy

Art21 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:13:16 +0000

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Art21

"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)"
-- Robert Rauschenberg, 1959