Dear Reader: This is a blog for you, and by that I mean, I want this new initiative to be a two-way street. I will blog on current events in the art world that I think will resonate in southern Illinois, and I will write about the Cedarhurst museum’s permanent collections, the Goldman-Kuenz Sculpture Park, […]
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Dennis Oppenheim was a peripatetic artist, working as many did in the 1960s, first in Earth Art, then Body Art and Video Art, combining the last two in Performance Art, before moving on to Sculpture proper. In each discipline, Dennis Oppenheim was an influential artist, well-respected by his peers. Among Oppenheim’s many accolades, he was
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In several important ways, the conservation of Eastern Leanings preserves not only Eastman’s contribution to our Goldman-Kuenz Sculpture Park, but also the legacy of Mt. Vernon native Marejon Sue Shrode. As part of Cedarhurst’s Kimball’s Habitat conservation initiative, we are painting Eastern Leanings. We have a new concrete platform to place it on and keep
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Regarding democracies, according to Pew Research, “Concern has been growing for the past several years about the future of democracy, and there is considerable dissatisfaction in many countries with how democracy is working in practice. But public support for democratic ideals remains strong, and by one measure, global democracy is at or near a modern-day high.” Maintaining a
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Conservator and art restorer Vlad Zhitomirsky studies a work of art similar to a curator. Vlad and his business partner, Mikhail Matveyev, begin by determining the forms’ various origins and histories. They determine what construction techniques were used. They evaluate the condition of each section of the art work examining every square inch, inside and out, for
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This post uses slides, images, and examples to introduce critical (thoughtful) reading strategies for art and even the news. According to lexico dot com, a meme is an element of culture or system of behavior that is passed from one individual to another by non-genetic means, typically by imitation. Discerning what is legitimate is particularly difficult concerning
History is the story of how and why we came to be at this present moment. Thinking through History is the detective work that understands how opposing points of view changed history and behavior. To study History is to begin to make sense of the world. To live well and thrive in the modern-postmodern world,
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The history of the genesis of museums is a fascinating blend of passion for all things handmade and for the beauty and strangeness of nature. This blog will introduce the motivating impulses of education and conservation that began museums and continue to inform museums today. The Cedarhurst Center for the Arts and the Goldman-Kuenz Sculpture Park are a part
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This blog introduces the current exhibition Fables, Allegories, and Aestheticism: The Art of the Message. The exhibition compares two modes of art making; a mode which prioritizes the art itself as “the message of form” and a mode that prioritizes “the message of content.” Artists who follow the “message of form” create art without an
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Today’s blog introduces the role of the curator in organizing art exhibitions with an eye towards the creative involvement of the visitor. Marcel Duchamp declared in his 1957 paper, “Creative Act,” that “all in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering
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