by Rose Lawrence On Saturday, June 30, 2012, Strawbery Banke Museum hosts the “Passion For Fashion Gala” including a Champagne Reception and Celebrity Designers Runway Show.. This event, a benefit to support the Museum’s education programs and preservation efforts, will take place under a tent on the Museum’s grounds at […]
Month: June 2012
Quilts Your Grandmother Would Envy:Luke Haynes turns a traditional craft into contemporary art
by Isabelle Kellogg Luke Haynes hasn’t stopped quilting since he started toying around with small snippets of fabric on a sewing machine ten years ago. By now, he’s worked past his 100th quilt, many of which have been on view at recent shows across America, including his native city of […]
A Love Affair with Plants: Ellsworth Kelly’s plant drawings at the Metropolitan Museum demonstrate the eloquence of line and form.
by Sara Evans Eighty-nine-year-old Ellsworth Kelly is one of the pillars of Abstract Expressionism, a major figure in both Color-Field and Minimalist painting. His abstractions are precise, tight and geometric, with color-block grids and intensely hued, hard-edged forms floating in space. But there is a softer, less well-known side to […]
San Francisco’s SoMa is Hot, Hot, Hot: Two new museums in the heart of the City by the Bay are not to be missed.
by Ellen Edwards Cities are dynamic, their districts wax and wane, are hot or not. And nowhere is this fact of urban life truer than San Francisco’s SoMa, the district South of Market Street, the long street that slices all the way through the city, from Twin Peaks to the […]
Art Of The Times – Summer – 2012
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