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Author Archives: Barry Nemett
Barry Nemett, Chair of the Painting Department at MICA since 1992, has exhibited his artwork in museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa and has curated numerous national exhibitions. Nemett has published essays and poetry for numerous exhibition catalogues, magazines, and art blogs. He is the author of Images, Objects & Ideas (MacGraw-Hill Publishers), and the novel, Crooked Tracks, (Barnhardt & Ashe Publishing Co.). Nemett is represented in NY by Denise Bibro Fine Art. For more info, view his website, barrynemett.com
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The Measureless James Turrell
Like memory, Turrell‘s work exists outside of space and time and sound.
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The Everyday Madness of Picasso’s “Acrobat on a Ball”
What a nimble feat of balance and strength it is to build a dream.
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Fixating on Giacometti’s Doomed Woman
Who is this nameless woman whose first (and last) breaths were drawn nearly 90 years ago?
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Mister Rogers, Art Critic
Along with being a minister, author, composer, lyricist, organist, teacher, and child-whispering lion, for a moment Fred Rogers was also an art critic.
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Photographers Among the Trees, from Steichen to Bae Bien-U
An exhibition at London’s V&A captures the dance in life’s stillness and the stillness in life’s dance.
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Michelangelo’s Divine Magnitude and Picasso’s Parade of Power
The intimate drawings of Michelangelo Buonarroti and the largest painting Pablo Picasso ever made.
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Virginia Wagner’s Landscapes of Exquisite Dread
Wagner would agree with Samuel Beckett, that “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
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Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The rewards of what is in plain sight far outweigh what is tucked away.
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Origins of Originality: ‘Matisse/Diebenkorn’ at the Baltimore Museum of Art
At the core of this show is a conversation in paint about influence and individuality.
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Disconnected Realities: The Art of David Barnett
Perhaps it was the joy of seeing contemporary art that could have fit comfortably within the Dadaglobe Reconstructed exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, that opened my eyes so widely to Barnett’s magic.
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Repairing the Damage of Haste: The Still Point and Stir of William Bailey
Minutes before seeing a collection of William Bailey’s meditative still-lifes and figure paintings, I heard, yet again, a series of small-minded and reckless comments by Donald Trump.