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February 25, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

A three-book starter pack to contemporary indigenous art, Part 1

Andrea Kirsh reviews three books about indigenous art. Part one of two reviews Philip J. Deloria’s “Becoming Mary Sully; Toward an American Indian abstract.”

May 7, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

“Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Andrea Kirsh visits the PMA’s new exhibition, “Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950,” which celebrates art from our museum’s own early 20th century American collection, independent of its European counterparts. As the museum prepares for the 2020 unveiling of its renovated and expanded exhibition spaces, this show whets our appetite for what’s to come.

April 2, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

Three books on Indian modernism

Despite the rapid globalization of the art world, the history of modernism in India remains poorly understood outside of the subcontinent itself. Andrea Kirsh reviews three recent books that highlight South Asian artists active between the early 1930s and the end of the 20th century and explores their aesthetic relationships, both to western art history and to their local pictorial traditions. Anyone interested in what decolonization looks like in rich historical context should read on!

December 16, 2017 by Andrea Kirsh

Books for the Holidays 2017, Part 2

Andrea Kirsh rounds up books for your biblio-pals who love art and are waiting for a nice art book to come their way. Here she talks about a sumptuously-illustrated book on Kandinsky; a fun book about artists’ personal libraries (with pictures!); and a book showing the Carrie Mae Weems’s seminal “Kitchen Table Series” in its entirety. Read on!

July 2, 2017 by Andrea Kirsh

Guggenheim Museum’s rare move fills rotunda with its own collection, a summer must-see

Andrea reviews “Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim,” curated by Megan Fontanella, with artwork from five collectors whose gifts to the museum helped the Guggenheim define itself as a pioneering institution. A rare chance to see beautifully-conserved works by Modern masters like Brancusi, Pollock, Mondrian, the show is a must-see this summer, says Andrea.

August 7, 2016 by Andrea Kirsh

Contrarian, Utopian, Polymath – László Moholy-Nagy at the Guggenheim

August 22, 2014 by natalia angeles vieyra

Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988 at MoMA

June 6, 2013 by Sam Newhouse

Irregular Edges — Modernism and Caroline Santa and Mauro Zamora’s Precis at Rebekah Templeton

May 28, 2013 by Andrea Kirsh

Impresario of Modernism — ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes 1909-1929’ at the National Gallery of Art

March 7, 2013 by Andrea Kirsh

Outsider Art and the Mainstream – A Symposium at the PMA

November 14, 2010 by Andrea Kirsh

Book Reviews: ‘Josiah McElheny; A Prism’ and ‘The Hockemeyer Collection; 20th Century Italian Ceramic Art’

May 30, 2007 by Libby

Power and politics in Africa–Libby in DC