Stories for May 2009

Picture This: Morans on the Move

May 8, 2009

Moving the Morans: a monumental task. Photo by Gene Young. Staff at the museum have been working all week to carefully orchestrate moving a suite of monumental landscape paintings by Thomas Moran out of the Grand Salon at the museum's...

The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene

May 7, 2009

The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene, on view at the Renwick Gallery now through June 7, 2009 In the early years of the twentieth century, brothers Charles and Henry Greene created some of the most original and important...

Jamaica Kincaid on Being Kept In

May 5, 2009

Edward Lamson Henry, Kept In, 1889, oil, 14" x 18", Fenimore Art Museum, New York State Historical Association On a recent Saturday afternoon writer Jamaica Kincaid offered ninety minutes of personal remembrances in one of the most interesting and heartfelt...

Paik for Everyone

May 1, 2009

Nam June Paik with his televisions, 1991, © Nam June Paik Studios, Inc. The American Art Museum has dedicated quite a bit of floor space to the incredible works of Nam June Paik, who is often called the "father of...