Tuesday, May 9, 2023 (continued)
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Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts just reopened on May 2, 2023 after a major renovation. Although it is always free (even with Tyler Arboretum reciprocity!), we had to get advance timed-entry tickets. Not being sure when we would arrive, I chose the time of 18:00, but we were allowed to enter at 17:00!
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Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (est 1914, building 1937
by the Works Progress Administration in Art Deco style,
with multiple expansions concluding in 2019-2023
by Studio Gang and SCAPE landscape design) |
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| Atrium at the Park Entrance |
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| The Fatality of Hope (2007, by Chakaia Booker) |
First, the included Windgate Art School was having an Open House.
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| Drawing studio (KSS) |
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| Ceramics studio (KSS) |
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| Woodworking studio, and there was more! |
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John Brown (1976, by Charles White,
printed by Robert Blackburn) |
Remember John Brown as the staunch opponent of slavery and its expansion in Kansas Territory, who led a raid on the US Armory in Harper's Ferry, WV in 1859.
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| Continuous Motion (2021, by Robyn Horn) |
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Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge
(1961, by Henry Moore, cast 1976)
stands in the new courtyard |
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| Cultural Living Room (KSS) |
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Cultural Living Room view of the courtyard and the
1937 Art Deco façade of the Museum of Fine Arts (KSS) |
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| War Games Basket (2000, by John Garrett) |
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Doctor's Bag - Closed (1972, by Marilyn Levine)
is a ceramic work of art (KSS) |
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The Draught of Fishes (1965, by Carroll Cloar)
refers to Mississippi Delta native aquatic animals and
the Bible story of the apostles' miraculous haul of fish |
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| Snowflakes (c 1966, by Andrew Wyeth) |
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| Clay County Farm (1971, by Thomas Hart Benton) |
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Black Iron (1935, by Charles Burchfield) of
railroad drawbridges for the port near Buffalo, NY |
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Martyrdom of St Stephen (c 1400, attributed to
Lorenzo di Niccolò); St Stephen was stoned to death |
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Homme assis lisant, portrait présumé de Louis-edmond
Duranty/Seated Man Reading (1880-1881, by Edgar Degas) |
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Paysage de Saint-Tropez/St Tropez Landscape
(1910, by Pierre Bonnard) (KSS) |
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Laid Table with Bird, Goblet, and Fruit
(2006, additions 2023, by Beth Lipman)
(had difficulty finding the bird!) |
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Tears of Chiwen (2017, by Sun Xun) is an animated video
that laments East Asia's loss of cultural identity
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| Salon-style display of art |
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| Spring Song (2022-2023, by Natasha Bowdoin) |
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A Familiar Kind of Riddle (2018, by Peter Pincus)
is made with porcelain tiles |
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Jerome (The Tag Project) and Rohwer (The
Tag Project) (2011, by Wendy Maruyama) |
Remember the two gentlemen who had been to the reunion of Japanese-Americans relocated to the Jerome and Rohwer internment camps?!
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The artist replicated 24,000 paper identification
tags the internees had to wear while being
transferred to the camps; the sheer numbers
are visually apparent (KSS) |
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Indian Rodeo, Yosemite Valley (1920,
by Marguerite Zorach) |
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New Neighbors (2020, by Julie Blackmon) seems to
recreate a scene from the horror film The Shining (KSS) |
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Leaving and waving, 7/1991 and
Leaving and waving, 8/2015,
by Deanna Dikeman (KSS) |
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Aurora Borealis/Solar Storms: August 2022 #1
(by Howardena Pindell) |
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| Tightrope (2022, by Elias Sime) |
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Tightrope detail shows it is created from
electrical wires and keyboard keys |
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Kent noted that the expansive walls and
some ceilings were coated with a product
like Marmorino, a plaster that is
burnished to resemble marble |
Next: Clinton Presidential Center.
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