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Behind the scenes at the modern art museum
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 882–889
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Author:
Pergam, Elizabeth (Pergam, Elizabeth)
Subjects
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Museology / Art museums / Architecture / Art education / Arts funding / Museum extensions
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Closed on Mondays: Behind the Scenes at the Museum. By Dinah Casson. 208 pp. incl. 149 col. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2020), £35. ISBN 978–1–84822–434–6. | :
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The Art Museum in Modern Times. By Charles Saumarez Smith. 272 pp., incl. 122 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames & Hudson, London and New York, 2021), £30. ISBN 978–05– 0002243–6 | :
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The Avant-Garde Museum. Edited by Agnieszka Pindera and Jarosław Suchan. 624 pp. incl. 252 col. + 57 b. & w. ills. (Museum Sztuki, Łódź, 2020) £40. ISBN 978–3–96098–947–9. | :
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Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum. Edited by Donatien Grau. 256 pp. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2021), $35. ISBN 978–1–60606–719–2. | :
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Why the Museum Matters, by Daniel H. Weiss. 224 pp. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2022), $26. ISBN 978–03–0025935–3. | :
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Worlds in a Museum: Exploring Contemporary Museology. Edited by the Louvre Abu Dhabi and École du Louvre. 272 pp. incl. 99 col. ills. (Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2021), £20. ISBN 978–9– 46166–332–0 | :
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1. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2015. (Photograph Ed Lederman).
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2. Glass corridor in the North Wing of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk. (Photograph Kim Hansen).
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3. Proposal for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art expansion by Peter Zumthor. 2019. (Courtesy Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partners; The Boundary)
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4. Seen / Unseen Known / Unknown, by Walter De Maria. 2000. (Bennesse Art Site, Naoshima).
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5. Permanent display of the International collection of Modern Art of the a.r. group at the J. and K. Bartoszewicz Municipal Museum of History and Art. Photograph by Włodzimierz Pfeiffer. 1931. (From J. and K. Bartoszewicz Municipal Museum of History and Art: International Collection of Modern Art / Collection Internationale d’Art Nouveau, Łódź 1932; Archive of the Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź).
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6. Water Court at the Pavilions, Glenstone Museum, Potomac. (Photograph Iwan Baan).
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7. Louvre Abu Dhabi. (Photograph by Roland Halbe).
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8. Daniel Weiss, former President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019. (Photograph Mark Abramson).
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9. Burrell Collection, Glasgow. 2022. (Photograph by Hufton + Crow).
Exhibition Review
VKhUTEMAS 100: School of Avant-garde
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 961-963
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Reviewer:
Akinsha, Konstantin (Akinsha, Konstantin)
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art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Moscow City Museum, Moscow, Russia
subjects:
VKhUTEMAS, Moscow, Russia / VKhUTEIN, Moscow, Russia / Soviet art / Russian art / Russian architecture / Design / Art schools / Art education / Modernism
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VKhUTEMAS 100: School of Avant-garde Edited by Ksenia Guseva and Aleksandra Selivanova. 326 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Museum of Moscow and ABC Design, Moscow, 2021), $159. ISBN 978–5–4330–0163–3. | :
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33. Still life for the painting class, by Aleksandr Rodchenko. 1924. Photograph. (Private collection).
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34. Exhibition on the subject ‘Colour’ in VKhUTEMAS. Photograph, 1926. (Private collection).
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35. Composition of geometrical shapes sequentially drawn in one, two, three, four, five mutually crossed shapes, by Anastasia Akhtyrko. 1921. Pencil on paper. (Private collection).
Editorial
The purposes of art
06/2021 | 1419 | 163
Pages: 491
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Subjects
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Turner Prize / Arts funding / Art education
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Artists' collectives
Book Review
Art de démocratie: Les débats sur les arts du dessin dans les premières années de la Révolution française
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 484-485
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Reviewer:
Stammers, Thomas E. (Stammers, Thomas E.)
Subjects
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French art / Art education / Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Paris, France / Revolution (France: 1789-1799) / Drawings
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Art de démocratie: Les débats sur les arts du dessin dans les premières années de la Révolution française Edited by Christian Michel. 424 pp. (Droz, Geneva, 2020), €20.85. ISBN 978–2–600–00570–8. | :
Book Review
The Diaries of Randolph Schwabe: British Art 1930–48. By Gill Clarke & Inquisitive Eyes: Slade Painters in Edwardian Wessex. By Gwen Yarker
10/2017 | 1375 | 159
Pages: 830
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Reviewer:
Freeman, Julian (Freeman, Julian)
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artists:
Schwabe, Randolph / Everett, John
dates:
1890-1949
places:
Wessex / Dorset
subjects:
Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Art education / British art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
64. Portrait of Herbert Barnard John Everett, by William Orpen. c. 1900 (National Maritime Museum, London).
Article
The Art of Conservation XII. Art history, science and practice: the training of paintings conservators in the twentieth century
08/2017 | 1373 | 159
Pages: 630-637
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Author:
Hill Stoner, Joyce (Hill Stoner, Joyce)
Subjects
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1999
museums and institutions:
International Council of Museums (ICOM) / Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Great Britain / Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Conservation / Restoration (process) / Art education / Conservators / Restorers / Art theory
subjects:
Science / Research
Illustrations
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39. A reconstruction in progress of Rogier van der Weyden's painting of The Magdalene reading (National Gallery, London), made by Brian Baade for the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. 2013 (Photograph Joyce Hill Stoner)
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41. Paolo and Laura Mora demonstrating the tratteggio technique of inpainting at the J. Paul Getty Museum painting conservation studio in Los Angeles. 1985 (Photograph Joyce Hill Stoner)
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42. Stephen Rees Jones in the Technology Department of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. 1972 (Photograph Joyce Hill Stoner)
Western art unattributed:
37. Johannes Hell. Date unknown. (Photograph courtesy FAIC, Winterthur Museum, Library and Archives)
Western art unattributed:
38. William Suhr in his studio in Berlin (sitting on the far left). 1920s (Photograph courtesy FAIC, Winterthur Museum, Library and Archives)
Western art unattributed:
40. The Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, Institut für Technologie der Malerei. 1965
Western art unattributed:
43. Sheldon Keck (far left) and James Hester, former President of New York University, welcome Jacqueline Kennedy to the New York University Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York. Leonetto Tintori is on the far right. c.1961 (Photograph courtesy of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts)
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44. Delegates to the International IIC Congress on Museum Climatology outside the Albert Hall, London. 1967 (Photograph courtesy of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, London)
Publication Received
Artistes, musées et collections. Un homage à Antoine Schnapper. Edited by Véronique Gerard Powell
06/2017 | 1371 | 159
Pages: 487
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Reviewer:
Pullins, David (Pullins, David)
Subjects
art literature:
Schnapper, Antoine
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1999 / 2000-2009
subjects:
Art historians / Art education / Art history / Collecting / Collectors / French
Editorial
History of Art A Level
01/2017 | 1366 | 159
Pages: 3
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Author:
Oakden, Helen (Oakden, Helen)
Subjects
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Editorials / Art education
Book Review
Art, Artisans & Apprentices: Apprentice Painters and Sculptors in Early Modern British Tradition, by James Ayres
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 908-909
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Reviewer:
Postle, Martin (Postle, Martin)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1799
places:
Great Britain
places:
United States
subjects:
Art education / Workshops (Organisations) / Artists / Artisans / Sculptors / British painting / British sculpture / Academies / Livery Companies / Guilds
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / American sculpture (United States of America)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
46. A sculptor's showroom, by William Henry Pyne (British Museum, London)
Publication Received
Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis Mid-Twentieth Century. Anton Ehrenzweig in Context. By Beth Williamson.
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 375
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Reviewer:
Carrier, David (Carrier, David)
Subjects
art literature:
Ehrenzweig, Anton, 1908-1966
subjects:
Art theory / Art education / Psychoanalysis
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