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Bauhaus Studies

Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman’s Bauhaus 1919-1933; Workshops for modernity (2009, Museum of Modern Art, New York, ISBN 978-0-87070-758-2), the catalog for MoMA’s exhibition of the same name, would serve as an excellent introduction to the Bauhaus for a serious scholarly or general audience.  The book, as did the exhibition, addresses the Bauhaus primarily as an educational institution, rejecting common usage of the term to describe a style, often associated with modernism in general.

Fiber at Snyderman

If you’re still thinking there’s a big divide between art and crafts, the 7th International Fiber Biennial will set you straight. Much of the work reflects social and artistic concerns and all of it is beautifully made. The exhibit, at Snyderman Gallery, features fiber art from 61 artists, who come from as far away as Denmark and Korea, with 15 of them from the Philadelphia area. Among my favorites are two pieces about America’s long-term contentious issue–race. One is from a white artist, one from an African American artist, and as always, the subject is loaded with feelings.

From Constable to Eva Hesse at the National Gallery

Notes on the Unacceptable and the EphemeralPost by Andrea Kirsh John ConstableThe White Horse, 1818-1819Widener Collection1942.9.9 I was in the National Gallery of Art yesterday; of course I went to the John Constable exhibition, which is extraordinary and should be seen by everyone interested in painting. But later I took some students through the modern galleries and we ended up in a room of early 1960s art, exactly two floors below the Constables. We are all so much heirs of Romanticism that it is worth remembering that in Constable’s day landscape painting, unleavened by Classical, religious or historical figures in ... More » »