- In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Laurie Fendrich makes plain the paradoxes surrounding Dave Hickey and his complaints about the art world.
- Doug Moore of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch tells a wonderful, even inspiring story about how the Saint Louis Art Museum works with local schools to encourage students to use art to rethink race, beauty and stereotypes.
- With some help from the Getty Foundation, the George Eastman House is solving a mystery regarding the conservation of some rare daguerreotypes, reports James Goodman in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.
- Those first three stories are superb — if you haven’t read all three, you’re missing out.
- In the New York Observer/GalleristNY, Maika Pollack reviews MoMA’s “Inventing Abstraction.”
- Have you digitally interfaced with your art museum lately, asks Christopher Knight. (Who also notes that museum collections should be online.)
- In the NYT, Martha Schwendener reviews a new Montclair Art Museum show that looks at the impact of Georgia O’Keeffe’s first encounter with native New Mexicans.
On this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast: Discussing “Matisse: In Search of True Painting” with Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Rebecca Rabinow. And “Ends of the Earth” curator and UCLA art history professor Miwon Kwon talks Richard Serra’s Shift — and tells us about an apparently missing film of the endangered earthwork that she thinks may turn up somewhere, someday. Download the show, subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, RSS.
January 7, 2013, 9:30 am
