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What's In Your Tureen: Soup, Stew, or Ragoût? July 28, 2001–December 1, 2002 Dining a la Français? A la Russe? Decorative arts meet the culinary arts in this exhibition about soup tureens and the delights of dining from 1700 to the present. Ten tureens, ranging from an elegant early 18th-entury Meissen tureen to the utilitarian 1975 Rival Crock-Pot®, are matched with the soups, stews, chowders, and ragoûts that might have gone in them. Recipes created for the aristocracy by renowned French master chefs La Varenne, Antonin Carême, and Auguste Escoffier are featured alongside the practical household cookery of England's Hannah Glasse and America's Amelia Simmons. Top |
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Landscapes of Retrospection: The Magoon Collection of British Drawings and Prints, 1739-1860 and Still Rooms & Excavations: A Photographic Installation by Richard Barnes June 9 - September 2 The Heinz Architectural Center presents Landscapes of Retrospection: The Magoon Collection of British Drawings and Prints, 1739-1860, from Vassar College, with Still Rooms & Excavations: A Photographic Installation by Richard Barnes. At first glance, the works in these two exhibitions are distinct in medium, historical period, and explicit subject matter; but closer consideration reveals intriguing parallels in terms of their themes, the questions raised, and the issues central to both exhibitions. Landscapes of Retrospection examines the ways in which the exhaustive cataloguing of Britain's landscape and architectural monuments in the 18th and 19th centuries contributed to the cultivation of a unique, common national identity. This phenomenon occurred at a time when various developments were perceived as a threat to the nation and the natural landscape. Still Rooms & Excavations documents the 1990s excavation of a 19th-century cemetery for the poor discovered beneath a San Francisco art museum during an expansion project. Landscapes of Retrospection narrates a conscious attempt to preserve a history that was thought to embrace and be relevant to all British citizens. By contrast, Still Rooms & Excavations records the unearthing of the remains of a population whose history had been disregarded and suppressed. Of central interest to Barnes is the complex irony of a museum deliberately created to preserve the products of an imported European culture, housed in a Greek Revival-style building, and literally built on the unmarked graves of the poor, many of whom were immigrants. Personal reflection will suggest other parallels and points of intersection in this two-fold consideration of the cultural function of memory and the mechanisms by which it is preserved, suppressed, and revealed. Landscapes of Retrospection: The Magoon Collection of British Drawings and Prints, 1739-1860, has been organized by The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Still Rooms & Excavations: A Photographic Installation by Richard Barnes has been organized by the artist with the assistance of Nigel Poor. The programs of the Heinz Architectural Center are made possible by the generous support of the Drue Heinz Trust. General support for the exhibition program at Carnegie Museum of Art is provided by grants from The Heinz Endowments and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Top |
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| smallSCULPTURE2001 May 19 - September 2 |
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This exhibition showcases the work of 17 young artists who were winners of the National Society of Arts and Letters' (NSAL) chapter competitions in the visual arts category of small sculpture and are now competing at the national level. The first-place winner of this competition receives a substantial career development award. Eligibility rules for this competition permitted a wide choice of sculpture materials, dictated size and weight limitations, and required participants to be United States citizens between 18 and 29 years of age. Judges for the national competition, held at Carnegie Museum of Art, were Thomas Sokolowski, director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Susan Rosenberg, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and nationally recognized sculptors Michael Hall and Thaddeus Mosley. Young artists benefit not only from the society's monetary awards but also from the opportunity to have their work reviewed by nationally and internationally recognized artists and to exhibit and discuss their work with their peers. The competition provides a constructive forum for assessing talent and helps shape a personal vision of a life in the arts. The NSAL supports the development and careers of talented young artists, between the ages of 14 and 30, in visual arts, dance, drama, literature, and music. The society's multidisciplinary focus is an important and unique aspect of the organization. Since its founding in 1944, NSAL has presented more than 4,000 awards. Actress Shirley MacLaine and opera singer Jessye Norman are two of many aspiring artists whose careers were advanced through NSAL programs. In addition, many world-renowned artists serve on the society's national advisory council, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ann Hamilton, Luciano Pavarotti, Zoe Caldwell, Saul Bellow, and Robert Rauschenberg. Top |
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Portrait/Self Portrait: Prints and Drawings from the Museum's Collections May 5 - November 25 |
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The fascination with fame is not a modern phenomenon. The urge to make portraits, to capture and preserve a person's appearance, as if the likeness of someone could reveal the essential qualities of their character and make them known to every viewer, has existed throughout time. This survey of portraits and self-portraits from the museum's extensive collection of works on paper spans 500 years of printmaking and drawing. Several works on view have not been shown previously. The exhibition features masterworks by Dürer, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Cézanne, Degas, Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Klimt, and Picasso, as well as American artists, such as Mary Cassatt, John James Audubon, Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, David Gilmour Blythe, and others. A wide variety of media used to create portraits on paper are represented in the exhibition--including pencil sketches, lithographs, engravings, etchings, watercolor paintings, and charcoal drawings Some of the subjects, such as King Louis XIV of France and George Washington, are historical figures whose fame has long outlived them. Others, celebrated in their own time, are little-known today. Still others represent the intimate circle of the artists' acquaintance, friends, wives, children, mistresses, and models. Finally, there are the self portraits in which artists attempted to understand themselves or simply responded to the most available subject--one can, after all, make a portrait merely by looking in the mirror. As works of art, portrait drawings and prints served several purposes. Some were created as mere sketches; others allowed the artist to try out a pose for a painting or experiment with a new technique. In commissioned portraits, the artist carefully and deliberately recorded a celebrated person's appearance. Many of these prints were collected as they were made, evidence that our forebears were as fascinated by images of the famous as we are today. Top |
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