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Barry Nemett

Barry Nemett, Chair of MICA's Painting Department from 1992-2017, has exhibited his artwork in museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He lectures internationally and has curated numerous national exhibitions. Nemett is the author of the textbook Images, Objects & Ideas (MacGraw-Hill Publishers) and the novel Crooked Tracks (Barnhardt & Ashe Publishing Co.), and he has published essays for numerous exhibition catalogues, magazines, and art blogs. For more info, view his website, barrynemett.com

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Tschabalala Self’s Sensual Stories of Race, Sex, and Power

by Barry Nemett August 21, 2021August 22, 2021

From one project to the next, Self reinvents herself and reimagines how to portray the human body.

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An Artist as Resilient as She Is Joyous

by Barry Nemett May 9, 2020May 8, 2020

Few artists have reinvented themselves in their prime the way Jo Smail has; few have had to.

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The Measureless James Turrell

by Barry Nemett March 7, 2020March 7, 2020

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”

by Barry Nemett December 1, 2018December 30, 2018

What a nimble feat of balance and strength it is to build a dream.

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Fixating on Giacometti’s Doomed Woman

by Barry Nemett September 1, 2018August 31, 2018

Who is this nameless woman whose first (and last) breaths were drawn nearly 90 years ago?

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Mister Rogers, Art Critic

by Barry Nemett June 30, 2018December 30, 2019

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

by Barry Nemett March 31, 2018April 2, 2018

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

by Barry Nemett January 27, 2018January 26, 2018

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

by Barry Nemett December 2, 2017December 3, 2017

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

by Barry Nemett May 27, 2017May 26, 2017

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

by Barry Nemett December 3, 2016December 2, 2016

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 

by Barry Nemett September 3, 2016September 2, 2016

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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