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✦ Read an excellent
interview with Arab-American painter and poet/writer
Etal Adnan.
✦ Sarah E. Thompson, curator of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has published Hokusai's Lost Manga, a collection of drawings, seen for the first time in nearly two centuries, that likely were intended for the final volume of the famous printmaker's Manga series.
Cover Art
Read Christopher Benfey's article "
The Magician of Manga" in the
New York Review of Books Daily.
✦ In 2017, the United States Postal Service is commemorating the centennial of Andrew Wyeth's birth with a dozen Forever® stamps. Among the paintings to be featured are
Christina's World (1948),
Alvaro and Christina (1968),
North Light (1984), and
The Carry (2003). The official dedication is slated for July 12, 2017, at
Brandywine River Museum of Art. Wyeth was born July 12, 1917, and died January 16, 2009.
✦ Textile artist and designer
Lou Gardiner, who produces one-off contemporary embroidery, discusses her creative process in the video that follows.
from
R&A Collaborations on
Vimeo.
Exhibitions Here and There
Lino Tagliapietra, Chicago, 2015
and Kiln-Fused Glass
Loaned by Schantz Galleries, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Another exhibition, "
Jitish Kallat: Covering Letter", on view through March 5, 2017, is the Mumbai-based artist's installation and video projection comprising a Mahatma Gandhi letter to Adolf Hitler. For the installation, Kallat projects the text onto a traversable curtain of fog. This is the first exhibition in the United States of Kallat's
Covering Letter. (Four slide views of the installation are available at the exhibition ink.)
✭ In Waterville, Maine,
Colby College Museum of Art is presenting through February 12, 2017, "
In the Studio: Picasso's Vollard Suite" (1930-1937), a selection from a suite of 100
etchings and
drypoints commissioned by art dealer
Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939). Described as "the most significant print series" by Picasso, the suite's principal theme is the relationship between artist and studio model. (A selection of images is available at the exhibition link.) (A complete set of the prints appeared in 2012 at the British Museum. For an introduction to that exhibition, the museum previewed a
video with curator Stephen Coppel.)
✭ Norfolk, Virginia's
Chrysler Museum of Art continues its multi-sensory installation "
Wendy Maruyama" The wildLIFE Project" through January 15, 2017. Organized by the
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, where it appeared in 2015, the traveling exhibition, which examines the plight of African elephants and rhino and protests illegal poaching and the illegal ivory trade, features blown-glass elephant tusks housed in a wooden reliquary, an empty tomb (
Cenotaph) and other cabinet forms into which Maruyama has integrated video, text, or images, life-size sculptures of elephant heads and trunks, and a Buddhist-style shrine offering incense as well as a bell that rings every quarter-hour in homage to the endangered or already lost wildlife.
Wendy Maruyama, Bell Shrine, 2015
Wood, Bronze, Ink
Photo: David Harrison
✭ See 90 Indian paintings from the 16th through 19th centuries at the
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey. On view through February 5, 2017, the paintings, most of which were made to accompany literary classics or other texts, are drawn from the
Edwin Binney 3rd Collection housed at the
San Diego Museum of Art. Representing "the most significant gathering of South Asian art ever shown at Princeton," the paintings are arranged by book or type of book to provide a narrative context. As they tour the exhibition, titled "
Epic Tales from India", viewers will have opportunities to learn about the region's varied traditions of manuscript-making and receive an introduction to some of South Asia's most important literature, which ranges from sacred Sanskrit texts to secular stories, histories, and poems.
A variety of
exhibition-related multimedia is available online, including
raga performances and a video, "Sita Sings the Blues", a re-telling of the
Ramayana.
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