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...particular wrote that he finds the sculpture “an ugly, rusty eyesore!” Yanguas says that she expected a variety of reactions to any kind of contemporary art, mentioning that her friends back home in Spain had similar reactions to the Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum in Bilbao when it opened. “Everybody was amazed. Either you love or you hate it. But maybe they say the same thing about Michelangelo,” Yanguas says. Godfrey, a Yale and Edinburgh-educated artist, says that he has been working with this style of non-rigid...
...Collection of Charles E. Dunlap. Through Mar. 12. Fogg Museum.To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop. Ongoing. Fogg Museum.Evocative Creatures: Animal Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Art. Through June 11. Sackler Museum.Frank Stella 1958. Through May 7. Sackler Museum...
Walking into “Frank Stella 1958,” the special exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, reminded me of the surprise I got when I heard one of my friends, who plays guitar in a punk band, playing Mozart on a violin. It wasn’t that the delicate strains of the violin concerto were completely unrelated to the straight-up, snarling chords of his punk songs, nor even that one was necessarily better than the other. It was just that, man, I didn’t know he could do that...
...other respects, the world has moved closer to Grant's way of thinking. In the mid-'90s, fashion began steering away from minimalism towards more voluminous shapes, and the designer (who was studying early 20th century pieces in museum collections) emerged with his own understated form of maximalism. From stage left flew his corsets, crinolines and Mary Poppins coats. It was around this time that the National Gallery of Victoria started thinking of Grant as the potential subject of an exhibition. "His work is about evolution, not revolution," says curator Katie Somerville, who sees in Grant's designs "an uncanny...
...CRITICIZED SOME INDIGENOUS LEADERS FOR TREATING ABORIGINES LIKE "MUSEUM PIECES." Some of them are pretty hypocritical - they attack me about my views on (Aboriginal land) ownership and I say, Do you own your own home? They usually say yes. I think they've lost touch a bit with the ordinary lives of people. But I get off the train in Redfern and walk to my office, and it confronts me every day. Aboriginal people say to me, At least you're here so we can give you a spray - others we never...