- I don’t typically spend much time calling out wayward museum press releases, but this morning’s doozy of an exhibition announcement from the Clark Art Institute deserves puncturing. The opening line is: “Pissarro’s People is the first major U.S. museum exhibition of the artist’s works in 30 years.” Uh, no it’s not. Pissarro has been well-examined in major American museum shows plenty in recent years: In 2007 the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum organized the delightful “Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape.” Also in 2007, The Jewish Museum presented “Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country.” And who could forget MoMA’s 2005 “Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885?” [Update: There's a fourth in the comments. This is getting embarrassing.]
- LACMA and the Getty will become home to a major trove of Robert Mapplethorpe artwork and archival material. William Poundstone has fun details. The two institutions’ blogs have posts today too: Here’s curator Britt Salvesen at LACMA’s Unframed and here’s a PR staff Q&A with curator Frances Terpak at the Getty’s Iris.
- Andrew Russeth on The Battle of the Brush in Bryant Park. Good contextualizing pics, too.
- A funky little Jonathan Jones blog post on mountains in Italian art.
- RIP Maria Altmann, who took on Austria in order to get back her family’s Gustav Klimts.
February 8, 2011, 12:40 pm
If you like the Jones piece, I’m sure you’ll like Rebecca Solnit’s absolutely peerless essay on the subject in Field Guide to Getting Lost. But, you are a big Solnit fan so I am probably preaching to the converted.
Funny the Clark of all places would make that claim. In 1992 Rick Brettell and Joachim PIssarro teamed up at the Dallas Museum of Art to organize “Pissarro: The Impressionist and the City.” Since then, Rick has done several impressive projects with the Clark.