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candyland; A new show uncovers the fun side of a serious genre.(art exhibitions)(Brief Article)
Byline: Nico Israel
These days, when Americans imagine landscape, they might picture red and blue states-particularly in Ohio, where the fate of the presidential election hung in the balance. But "Landscape Confection," an exhibition at Columbus, Ohio's, Wexner Center for the Arts featuring thirteen emerging and mid-career artists from around the globe, liberates landscape from such restricted conceptions-and the traditional confines of nature and geography as well. Vivid dreamscapes and intimate topographies are conceived in materials that go beyond paint and photographic paper to silk, silver, synthetic hair, aluminum, plasticine, and, in the case of Indian artist Ranjani Shettar's installation Vasanta (Hindi for "spring"), hundreds of hand-rolled beeswax "flower buds" suspended from the gallery ceiling. ...
- Rowena Dring. (Reviews: New York).
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Schwendener, Martha December 1, 2002 700+ words
...used to keep the two segregated. At first glance--and almost always when reproduced in photographs--British artist Rowena Dring's work seems to fit this mold. Starting with images of landscapes taken from travel brochures or photographs snapped by...
- Art at Work: Forty Years of The Chase Manhattan Collection Opens March 3 at the...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 25, 1999 700+ words
...Arts, Houston, and the Contemporary Arts Museum jointly present Art at Work: Forty...in partnership with the Contemporary Arts Museum and Chase Bank of Texas to bring this...Mayo, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum. Chase Bank of Texas, N.A. has...
- Mixed messages from Taipei. (Taiwanese art, various artists, Taipei Fine Arts...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Heartney, Eleanor February 1, 1994 700+ words
...Taiwan's capital, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, rounded in 1982, boasts that it is...is soon to be joined by a major fine arts museum in the southern city of Kaohsiung...view this past fall at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum revealed how the island's complex...
- T.O. VETOES PROPOSAL FOR ARTS MUSEUM SITE.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) March 26, 1998 700+ words
...Staff Writer The Arts Commission is free to study plans for an arts museum and learning center at any location in the city except the...council voted 5-0 to approve the concept of a combined visual arts museum, cultural center and learning center, but voted 3-2 to...
- Seattle Direct Marketing Association to Hold Art & Technology Summit Wednesday...
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 30, 2008 700+ words
...as a Service for Marketers - will be held at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Wednesday February 6th starting at 5:30 PM and running...latest issues and network with their peers." The Bellevue Arts Museum will provide a striking backdrop for a unique evening including...
- ARTS MUSEUM'S FUTURE IN LIMBO.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) March 14, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Associated Press LEXINGTON -- A decorative arts museum faces an uncertain future after money from its budget has turned up missing, a wave of resignations and an investigation by the...
- BELLEVUE ARTS MUSEUM EXHIBITS EXPLORE THE THEME OF BREAKING DOWN-BUILDING...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Wagonfeld, Judy January 26, 2007 700+ words
...Special to the P-I Resilience. Recovery. Regeneration. Tributaries of hope. Bobbing amid the eddies of the Bellevue Arts Museum's five exhibits, this buoyant motif also serves as a metaphor of the museum's own transformation and rebirth. Reflecting...
- DECORATIVE-ARTS MUSEUM TO YIELD COLLECTION.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 18, 1990 700+ words
...storage space used by the Albany Institute of History and Art. On Friday, Margaret Coffin, director of the decorative-arts museum, said her organization had found no affordable location in Albany for its collection, which includes examples of eight different...
