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Ireland's collectors: a historical perspective: collecting in Ireland today is often depicted solely as the pursuit by the nouveaux riches of trophy canvases
Recently arrived in Dublin, a city whose skyline he was to transform, the English architect James Gandon was dismissive of Ireland's artistic scene....(Continue Reading) The Architecture of R.M. Schindler - drawings, models, furniture designs exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art - Brief Article
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART During his life, R.M. Schindler (1887--1953) garnered precious little praise from hard-line International Style contemporaries ......(Continue Reading)The academy strikes back: last fall, as official taste reigned at major international surveys in Beijing and Pingyao, avant-garde artists responded with
After the demise of Soviet-bloc Communism, sentimentalists on the left did a good deal of wishful thinking about a "third way" between that ......(Continue Reading)Subjective state: recently on view in New York, a two-venue exhibition of contemporary art from South Africa conveyed a refreshing cultural openness 10
A decade after South Africa held its first democratic elections in 1994, exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. marked the anniversary by taking stock of ......(Continue Reading)From craft to industry: furniture designed by Edward Durell Stone for senator Fulbright
Only yesterday, basket-weaving and wood-working were bandicraft operations in Arkansas. Today ... they have developed into an industry making modern ......(Continue Reading)
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