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...TECHNOLOGICAL MUSE, Katonah Museum of Art. Inaugurating its stylish new building by Edward Larrabee Barnes, the former Katonah Gallery, 45 miles north of New York City, offers a survey of technology's impact on art, from 19th century folk objects to contemporary computer images. Through...
AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. A reverence for nature has shaped Japanese art for centuries, but these 10 artists born since 1950 break from the tradition in video installations, performance art, conceptual sculpture and other radical, Western-influenced modes. Through...
...visit the Ryder retrospective, the first in a generation, which has been assembled with meticulous scholarship by Elizabeth Broun at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 8), is to become sharply aware of the limits of the Ryder myth. He is like Poe -- so overwrought, yet so influential. One sees, not for the first or only time, the paradox of American art in its larval days: how its course could be deeply affected, and the enthusiasm of its artists unstintingly engaged, by works whose actual aesthetic merits often seem slight...
...then there was the dirt. In the late 19th century, when curators were presumably less anal than they are today, dirt was considered a positive adjunct of museum art; it lent mellowness and venerability. Ryder's studio was filthy, a pack rat's cave. "It is appalling, this craze for clean-looking pictures," he once complained. "Nature isn't clean." To distinguish between the dirt, the dust, the brown varnish, the pigmented glazes and the goo underneath and then to stabilize the surface to preserve some notion of Ryder's intentions have always been a conservator's nightmare...
...WANDERERS: MASTERS OF 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN PAINTING, Dallas Museum of Art. The Wanderers spurned the Moscow Academy and took their work to the Russian people in the form of touring shows, which became rallying points for social change. This exhibition gathers some 100 of their canvases, most never before shown or even reproduced in the U.S. Through...