Gorky collection finds unusual home in Whistler House Museum Sep 26, 2009
But through one historical quirk and another, a small museum in Lowell that commemorates the birthplace of James McNeill Whistler is now in the possession of almost 30 early paintings, drawings, and prints by Arshile Gorky, the Armenian-born progenitor of American Abstract Expressionism. What does Gorky have to do with Whistler. (Boston Globe)
High and Low Relief Aug 17, 2009
Saint-Gaudens became friends with Rodin during a sojourn in Paris in the eighteen-nineties, and also with James McNeill Whistler. Like them and like other superb contemporaries, including the muralist Puvis de Chavannes and the architect Stanford White he was modern in spirit but retained conservative forms, consequently landing afoul of histories of modern art that venerate avant-gardism. (New Yorker)
Peter Schjeldahl: Whistler portraits return to the Frick. Jun 16, 2009
ART: JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, DETAIL FROM SYMPHONY IN FLESH COLOUR AND PINK: PORTRAIT OF MRS FRANCES LEYLAND (1871 74) Share. To get more of The New Yorker's signature mix of politics, culture and the arts. (New Yorker)
Art.view: A poet of light May 12, 2009
This composition is clearly influenced by James McNeill Whistler s seminal of 1871. This work was exhibited at the Mus;e du Luxembourg in 1884, officially joining the collection in 1891. (The Economist)
Artists' love affair is revealed Apr 15, 2009
One of her first tasks was to be Rodin's model for a commission he had received in 1903 from the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers to design a bronze memorial to the artist James McNeill Whistler, and a bronze head for this project is included in the Master and Model exhibition. Although more than 30 years older than her, Rodin became John's focus in life, providing her with emotional, intellectual and some financial support. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Meditations on Asia in American art Feb 8, 2009
" Now that he's gone - he died in 1997 - five small crystals take his place. Multimedia Photos: East and West meet? Today in Culture The show finds the museum unusually full of sounds, however faint. Bells held in a kind of cage periodically sail down the spiral and ring. Synthesizers drone and vibrate away somewhere, and an amplified buzzing of bees has, when you get close, the roar of fighter planes. Periodically, parcels of books descend by pulley from on high, as part of an elaborate... (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
