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Janet Tyson

Janet Tyson is an independent art historian, critic and artist. She lives and works in a semi-rural part of Michigan for about nine months a year, and in London for about three months a year.

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How Finland Helped Shape American Midcentury Modernism

by Janet Tyson July 6, 2017July 5, 2017

When architect Eliel Saarinen moved to the US and designed Cranbrook, he brought his Finnish heritage with him.

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A Multisensory Installation Inspired by the Humble Honeybee

by Janet Tyson November 2, 2016November 2, 2016

Wolfgang Buttress’s “The Hive” is an environment designed to amplify public awareness of the critical situation of bees.

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Recognizing the Contributions of Regionalism at the Turn of the 20th Century

by Janet Tyson August 1, 2016August 1, 2016

INDIANAPOLIS — In the mid-1970s, when my new, Hoosier husband first took me to visit Indianapolis, the city seemed haunted by the ghosts of middlebrow culture.

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In a City with Polluted Water, Flint’s Artists and Cultural Organizations Help Cope with the Crisis

by Janet Tyson May 26, 2016May 26, 2016

FLINT, Mich. — When President Obama visited Flint a few weeks ago and took note of peoples’ feisty attitude, I was relieved to have my own perceptions echoed by someone I trust, who probably has spent about as much — or more accurately, as little — time in the city as I have.

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Three Museums Come Together to Tell a History of African American Art

by Janet Tyson March 16, 2016

MUSKEGON, Mich. — Common Ground, the Muskegon Museum of Art’s current exhibition of African American art, combines works from three regional Michigan collections: the Muskegon museum, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and the Flint Institute of Arts.

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Witty Mashups Without Meaning

by Janet Tyson March 3, 2016March 3, 2016

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Jiha Moon’s colorful mixed-media works are in the collections of the Asia Society in New York and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other US institutions.

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Imperialism and Its Discontents at Tate Britain

by Janet Tyson February 29, 2016March 5, 2016

LONDON — Artist and Empire contains something for everyone, ranging from fierce pride to loathing, as well as everything in between.

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Suspended Glass Sculptures Visualize Cities’ Population Booms

by Janet Tyson January 26, 2016January 26, 2016

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — It might seem like a leap, using gorgeous studio glass objects to convey potentially alarming data about population growth, but Norwood Viviano pulls the two together very persuasively.

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An Exhibition Ponders (and Perpetuates) the Hierarchy Between “Art” and “Craft”

by Janet Tyson January 1, 2016December 31, 2015

LONDON — Losing the Compass, at White Cube in London’s Mason’s Yard, aspires to critique geographical, aesthetic, and other sorts of hierarchies.

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An Oblivious but Ambitious Artistic Intervention in White

by Janet Tyson December 24, 2015

LONDON — white, Edmund de Waal’s intervention at the Royal Academy (RA) library, is a wonder.

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Saturnine Portraits Somewhere Between Damascus and Berlin

by Janet Tyson December 3, 2015December 6, 2015

LONDON — Pictures by the Damascus-born, Berlin-based artist Marwan Kassab-Bachi are neither Arab nor European, Syrian nor German, but occupy the liminal space that diasporic people find themselves in.

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An Encounter with Kara Walker’s Poignantly American Work in the UK

by Janet Tyson November 4, 2015November 17, 2015

LONDON — Kara Walker’s Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First is a powerful, nuanced visual rant.

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