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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Art</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/art/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23495</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23495#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:02:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art realism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Henry Ossawa Tanner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PAFA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thomas Eakins]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23495</guid> <description><![CDATA[This exhibition of the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner is the first major reappraisal of the great African-American painter in a generation. On display in the PAFA exhibit are over 100 of Tanner’s works, including twelve paintings never shown in a previous retrospective. Drawings, photographs, prints and the only two surviving sculptures created by Tanner are featured, along with his paintings.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23495/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23349</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23349#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:46:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art abstract expressionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Weldon Kees]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23349</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is very different stuff than the angst of later confessional poets such as Lowell and Plath, whose despair is essentially personal, rooted in disappointment and disillusionment. Kees, by comparison, proposes that this is simply how it is, and does so with enough coolness and elegance that it comes as no surprise that Wallace Stevens wrote to Kees ordering a volume of a limited edition of his verse.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23349/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22943</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22943#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:54:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art portraiture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fifteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22943</guid> <description><![CDATA[In his <em>Portrait of a Young Man</em>, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of Byzantine icon painting with a close regard for his subject's unique, personal identity. Antonello died the year after he painted <em>Portrait of a Young Man</em>, but with this and a handful of similar works, he blazed a trail for all of the great portrait painters who came after him.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22943/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23003</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23003#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:30:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art abstract expressionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clyfford Still Museum]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23003</guid> <description><![CDATA[In 1959, he referred to esteemed critic Clement Greenberg and others as “wandering mongrels” only able to “cock a leg” against work they could not understand.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23003/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>West of Center: Art and the Countercultural Experiment in America, 1965 -1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22749</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22749#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1960s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art contemporary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MCA Denver]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22749</guid> <description><![CDATA[Earnest rather than ironic, unashamedly idealistic, unafraid of appearing amateurish and haphazard, many of the contents of this exhibition have the air of artifacts from a lost world.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22749/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Two Chinese Exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22783</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22783#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:01:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[textiles]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22783</guid> <description><![CDATA[This was a world in which the color of the glass finial on one’s hat indicated with precision one’s rank at court; in which the bird or animal embroidered in silk and gold thread on a silken badge indicated a civil or military official’s place in the hierarchy. (Degrees of civil officialdom were represented by birds such as cranes or pheasants, while military rank was indicated by fiercer animals, such as tigers, leopards, lions, and the legendary <em>quilin</em>.) ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22783/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22440</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22440#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:18:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Van Gogh]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22440</guid> <description><![CDATA[For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to be photographed. The one surviving photo, from his days at Goupil’s, shows a scowling, tousled haired young man with troubled, searching eyes. It is the face of a man destined to be a prophet or a lunatic.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22440/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22369</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22369#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:03:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Greece]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancient history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Rome]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Byzantium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22369</guid> <description><![CDATA[After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a number of Christian groups, notably monks in Egypt, changed roles from martyrs to persecutors. A magnificent head of Aphrodite, dating to first century Athens, bears the marks of Christian vandalism. The eyes and lips have been chipped to “blind” and “silence” the deity. A cross was then inscribed on the forehead of Aphrodite.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22369/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22021</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22021#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:55:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernardo Bertolucci]]></category> <category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dark comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Cronenberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie ratings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies adult]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies romance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mpaa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mpaa rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MPAA ratings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC-17]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC-17 rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC17]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter Greenaway]]></category> <category><![CDATA[X rating]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22021</guid> <description><![CDATA[Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much less artificial than, say, PG-13. Something about these films transcended the extremely liberal boundaries of the R rating, and in most cases the reasons are still apparent.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22021/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21569</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21569#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:16:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Deas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mental illness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21569</guid> <description><![CDATA[Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by remote control, via magnetic currents produced by a machine called the “air loom.” Matthew’s “air loom” was operated by a gang of seven: villainous Bill the King, wisecracking Jack the Schoolmaster, crude Sir Archy, the enigmatic Middle Man, scheming Augusta, poor, maltreated Charlotte, and the sinister Glove Woman, the most skilled operator of the machine.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21569/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Robert Adams: The Place We Live, Denver Art Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21476</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21476#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:45:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Adams]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21476</guid> <description><![CDATA[The photographs in the retrospective are animated by the yearning for a sense of place, of belonging and by regret at seeing that place forever slipping out of reach, as a consequence of environmental heedlessness and of the inevitable passage of time.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21476/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O&#8217;Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21325</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21325#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alfred Stieglitz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art avant-garde]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art cubism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art pictorialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arthur Dove]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Auguste Rodin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brancusi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Demuth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clarence White]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Georgia O’Keefe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gertrude Käsebier]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Marin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marius de Zayas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marsden Hartley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[matisse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Strand]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Picasso]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vasily Kandinsky]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21325</guid> <description><![CDATA[Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse, Picasso and Brancusi, Stieglitz went on to champion works created by American painters in the years following World War I. His one-man crusade met with a very mixed reception. Many in the New York art establishment viewed Stieglitz as a cultural anarchist, intent on dynamiting the Beaux-Arts foundation of American art.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21325/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20918</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20918#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20918</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of human misery and redemption in the minds of the literary public. Conscious of how the accompanying illustrations to his text would help in this respect, Dickens worked very closely with the artists who provided these memorable pictures.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20918/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20278</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20278#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arshile Gorky]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art abstract expressionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MoMA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Willem de Kooning]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20278</guid> <description><![CDATA[De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe stand over a steam vent. These paintings, as Robert Harris observed, are rooted in the "simultaneous desire for and fear of women." De Kooning may not have intended to paint <em>Woman I</em> to express these suppressed emotions. But that is what he put on the canvas and he may have been as perplexed as his critics as to how it got there.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20278/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20249</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20249#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:34:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maryhill Museum of Art]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20249</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been torn open as if by an air raid, revealing a black and white cityscape seen as if from the angle of a pilot.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20249/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20026</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20026#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:18:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children's Literature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edward Gorey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[memoir]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20026</guid> <description><![CDATA[Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The works of Jorge Luis Borges, the wonders of Japanese court poetry, the inadequacy of <em>The Yellow Submarine</em> – having found a sympathetic spirit, Gorey let loose a torrent of opinions about anything in his path.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20026/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19530</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19530#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:58:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19530</guid> <description><![CDATA[More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely American, historical construction.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19530/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19138</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19138#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:07:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[judaism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rembrandt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seventeenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19138</guid> <description><![CDATA[Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an artistic epiphany of lasting significance. Why not paint the portrait of Jesus, a 1st Century Jew from Galilee, using a live model with Jewish features? The resulting portraits, seven out of a likely eight that were painted, now grace the walls of a landmark exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19138/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19059</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19059#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:42:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nivedita Gunturi</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1920s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1930s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art constructivist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art Institute of Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bauhaus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Constructivism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Constructivist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[El Lissitzky]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gustav Klutsis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Heartfield]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Karel Teige]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ladislav Sutnar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Piet Zwart]]></category> <category><![CDATA[propaganda]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19059</guid> <description><![CDATA[Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away with. Having spent much of the 1920’s doing typographic and book design as well as designing toys and puppets, Sutnar was well-placed to bring his left-of-center, democracy-inspired radicalism to everything from porcelain to book covers.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19059/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Beauty &amp; Bounty: American Art in the Age of Exploration, Seattle Art Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18666</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18666#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:37:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laura Haertel</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Albert Bierstadt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art landscapes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eadweard Muybridge]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Johnson Heade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sanford Robinson Gifford]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Seattle Art Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thomas Moran]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18666</guid> <description><![CDATA[The highlight of the gallery would have to be the three paintings by lesser-known artist Martin Johnson Heade. In comparison with the majestic landscapes of mountains, waterfalls and canyons, the rather unremarkable marshlands and haystacks seem out of place. Yet, thanks to a rather humorous and talented Heade, the swirling haystacks and strange storm clouds leave the viewer with an eerie sense of calm, much like the sensation one feels before a summer storm.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18666/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Stacey Steers&#8217; Night Hunter</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18170</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18170#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art contemporary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art surrealism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stacey Steers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18170</guid> <description><![CDATA[Here, Gish finds herself amidst a riot of Freudian imagery – snakes, earthworms, and phallic blades of grass; mysterious pulsating eggs that seem to ooze blood. Among the few touches of color (added by hand) are splashes of red in Gish’s clothes (and oozing from those eggs). These, along with the old house deep in a tangled wood which forms the setting, evoke Little Red Riding Hood, perhaps the modern world’s favorite fable of sexual awakening and sexual danger.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18170/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Marvelous Mud at the Denver Art Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18138</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18138#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:23:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art exhibit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ceramics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18138</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marajó is a vast island lying at the mouth of the Amazon, much of which is underwater during seasonal floods. Between 400 and 1300 AD, a culture flourished here on artificial mounds built to rise above the flood waters.  The current indigenous inhabitants disclaim any connection to the earlier residents; the makers of these objects had vanished before their ancestors arrived, they say.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18138/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/17387</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/17387#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:04:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alvar Aalto]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Eames]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eames]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ettore Sottsass]]></category> <category><![CDATA[furniture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[George Nelson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Colombo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Masanori Umeda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mies van der Rohe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ray Eames]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=17387</guid> <description><![CDATA[Put them together as an integrated unit and you have a masterpiece. And in doing so, you have a vivid testimonial to Nelson's famous 1965 evocation of "junk" as the "crowning glory" of modern consumer culture, "the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals ... the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time. Junk is your ultimate landscape."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/17387/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</title><link>http://calitreview.com/17341</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/17341#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:45:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Katherine Hollander</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art contemporary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boston Museum of Fine Arts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dale Chihuly]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=17341</guid> <description><![CDATA[The pieces presented in this forty-year retrospective are bright and smooth, often dauntingly large, and composed of multiple parts that cluster together like organisms in an ecosystem or diverse components within a cell. They are frequently plantlike, vital and faintly menacing, and sport attachments that suggest insect pincers or lobster claws. They’re organic and goofy, as if they’d grown themselves, rather than being made. Yet at the same time there is something stubbornly artificial in their fantastic symmetries. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/17341/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy, Denver Art Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/16423</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/16423#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 17:03:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=16423</guid> <description><![CDATA[The shepherds look up in bewilderment at the announcing angel whose golden halo, rose-pink robes, and orangey-bronze wings seem to glow. Surely, this is what a supernatural visitation should look like.   And yet the effect of nocturnal shadow shows the painter to be as interested in earthly experiences as heavenly ones – here already is the keenly observational eye of the Renaissance.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/16423/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore</title><link>http://calitreview.com/16307</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/16307#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 13:14:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art impressionist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[matisse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Picasso]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theodore Robinson]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=16307</guid> <description><![CDATA[While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today, his painting marked a significant moment of transition in the American art scene. During the 1890's, wealthy Americans like Henry Frick were buying Rembrandts by the cart-load.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/16307/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Badlands Revisited</title><link>http://calitreview.com/16289</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/16289#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 15:44:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Badlands]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Adams]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terence Malick]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=16289</guid> <description><![CDATA[<em>Badlands</em> was filmed on location in southern Colorado, and recently I finally made it to Pueblo, Colorado's Rosemount House Museum, aka the interior of the “rich man's house.”  Fans of Malick’s offbeat, lyrical American aesthetic should find plenty to like there.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/16289/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Denver&#8217;s Camera Obscura Gallery Closes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/16256</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/16256#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:30:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Camera Obscura]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eliot Porter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Frederick H. Evans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hal Gould]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Imogen Cunningham]]></category> <category><![CDATA[O. Winston Link]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zoriah]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=16256</guid> <description><![CDATA[In dramatic contrast to the wide-open, sleekly minimalist aesthetic of most modern art galleries, Camera Obscura’s displays rambled through a series of rooms whose uniform coat of white paint barely obscured their past as a Victorian home. It was in this casual, intimate, even cluttered environment that I encountered many of the luminaries of modern photography, such as Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, Imogen Cunningham...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/16256/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Health for Sale, Philadelphia Museum of Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/15383</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/15383#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:01:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ars Medica]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ephemera]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[posters]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=15383</guid> <description><![CDATA[Designed for short-term use to promote public health or sell the latest "miracle" drug, medical posters have often been ignored. Traditionally, these posters have ranked well below the "stars" of Ars Medica collections, such as books of hand-tinted herbal remedies or anatomical drawings from the 16th century. But each of the prints in <em>Health for Sale</em> tells an amazing story, often confounding the expectations of the viewer.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/15383/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2011: Armageddon Comes Early To Hopeless Film Geeks</title><link>http://calitreview.com/15371</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/15371#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:53:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Lynch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[family guy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[film directors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaspar Noe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Harmony Korine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lars von Trier]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Haneke]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie directors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the cleveland show]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the simpsons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vincent Gallo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Werner Herzog]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=15371</guid> <description><![CDATA[Before the year is out, we may see all the weirdest and most controversial filmmakers of the age rise from cult obscurity and perpetrate further prime-time shenanigans. If this is so, then the time has come to dig out and review your most private and precious DVD collection - all the offbeat and obscure movies to which you would not subject your friends, family, or significant other to for fear of ridicule and ostracism - searching every beautiful and artfully stylized frame for hidden signs and clues. We, the scholars of the screen, must prepare the world.
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