Artblog | Museums

August 19, 2008 by Libby and Roberta

Libby and Roberta visit the Museum of Modern Art to see the architectural show, Home Delivery, which displayed a group of pre-fab houses that relate to the current need to conserve space, materials and time. The “Cellophane House,” by Philadelphia architectural firm Kieran Timberlake was a particular favorite.

January 21, 2008 by Roberta

Outer Spacey

March 9, 2007 by Roberta

Virgil Marti and Pae White at Hirshhorn

Virgil Marti, one of artblog’s favorite and most stalked artists, collaborated with Pae White on a new Hirshhorn Museum installation that turns the museum’s lobby into a proto-domestic interior. Sounds like a kick. The installation is up to July 29.

December 24, 2006 by Roberta

Artblog review of a children’s book: The Dream of Tom Thompkins

December 4, 2006 by Roberta

Petit Post on Paris

July 25, 2006 by Roberta

Kohler Art Center: Fever dreams and utopian nightmares

Roberta visits the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI, and talks about the visionary work she saw on exhibit in the galleries — and in the bathrooms, where artists were commissioned to make tile and cast iron installations with the help of the Kohler foundry master tile and iron workers.

April 26, 2006 by Roberta

Weekly Update – Wyeth’s coolness

Roberta says Andrew Wyeth’s 100 paintings in his massive 2006 retrospective at the PMA are worth the visit, even though she has mixed feelings about the artist’s Ralph-Lauren-esque presentation of the world as cool, fashionable and color-coordinated.

January 31, 2006 by Roberta

Weekly Update – Chicago at PAFA

January 26, 2006 by Libby

Tracer: Ingrid Calame at ICA

January 25, 2006 by Roberta

Talking with Carlos Basualdo, part 2

January 21, 2006 by Libby

Pink elephant 2

January 20, 2006 by Roberta

Visions of pink elephants and McElhenys dancing in my head

May 30, 2003 by Roberta

Nothing comes of something, doesn’t it?

The ICA just announced it’s 2003-2004 season lineup and the big local news is that wallpaper wunderkind Virgil Marti will do the ICA ramp in September (which might make it actually worth walking up for a change) and autobiographical painter Sarah McEneaney gets her first solo museum outing in January, 2004 (overdue).