Museums, and perhaps most particularly art museums, have roles to play in connecting the lives of their visitors with the history of their communities and their country. History becomes illuminating when it’s tied to the present. Museums can, for their audiences, facilitate this connecting work of history to the world today. Art museums themselves have …
This blog introduces the exhibition Rural Avant Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience showing at Cedarhurst October 18 through January 3, 2021. The exhibition was organized by the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts in Farmville, Virginia. In 2018, the companion book was published as The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Art in Locale. Edited by Ray Kass and Howard Risatti. The …
Have you ever spent New Year’s Day calling family or friends, especially ones you haven’t seen in a while? This is the grand tradition when on New Year’s Day gentlemen would spend all day traveling to the homes of as many family members and friends as possible. It was a happy, festive day and …
Since the time of the Greek philosopher Plotinus, Beauty has been regarded as inextricably linked to Truth. Modern writers John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde shared this conviction. In appraising Beauty, we sense something greater than the sum of the form’s parts. No single attribute defines the object, it is a cumulative effect. During …
Todd McLellan has been taking things apart since childhood. His love of exploration and discovery led to a deeper exploration of the tools and devices of today and market culture. McLellan’s art is dialectical which means it comes in pairs. A comparison of contrasting forces. A dialectical storyline seeks resolution and this exhibition offers some. …
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