Word: artes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another goal of the program was to connect Africa's art to the art forms of people of African descent...
Even though it's built on the dullest of premises, Roadshow makes for strangely addictive television. Led by Chris Jussel, an affable former New York City gallery owner, it's an unabashedly folksy blend of game show and art-history lecture. Jussel thinks the show has helped democratize the cloistered antiques world while "giving people an opportunity to touch their past." Each week he journeys to a new city, where he gives a quick tour of historical sights and museums. (This summer, when the show's episodes are taped, he'll be hitting Tampa, Fla.; Baltimore, Md.; Des Moines, Iowa...
...ample breasts and pencil-thin lower body. "I love clothing more than anything else," she confided over hot cider at a neighborhood lounge. "I almost walk through stores like one would walk through museums." After graduating from U.C.L.A. in 1997 with a dual degree in history and art history, she apprenticed at a lingerie company, where she learned that "it takes 38 pieces to construct a bra." Then her father Zach, who has a computer business, lent her money to help form a company. "We never thought she'd work so hard. She even stayed home last Saturday night, which...
...pronoun, not e-y-e, eye," interjects Harry Cooper, Associate Curator of Modern Art...
Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, featuring 220 drawings and collages, seeks to trace Kelly's formative years in France as a young artist searching not for self but for non-self. As Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art, points out "the grail he (Kelly) sought was his own effacement." During the period of 1948-1955, Kelly sought to find a way not to compose, to relinquish personal agency over his work. The exhibit, arranged chronologically, depicts three methods: the direct copy or transfer system, automatic drawings, and grid work established by chance...