Promega Art Showcase Features Works of Pedro E. Guerrero and Family Aug 15, 2008
Guerrero, best known for his photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright, will also showcase work from his long time association with artists Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson, 1940s New York City street scenes and photographs from his freelance years including Julia Childs kitchen ... He spent 13 years recording the art and life of Alexander Calder and 5 years with Louise Nevelson. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Women In Art Jul 6, 2008
But somehow an air of burly self-sufficiency, a mysterious essence of unexplained, irreducible genius hovers over male artists in a way that isn't fully allotted to O'Keeffe (forever fused to Alfred Stieglitz), Louise Nevelson (a neglectful mother concealed behind those dark eyelash shutters) or the suffering Kahlo. Viewers may experience what they see and feel in Kahlo's art as a deep empathic connection with her. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Museum of Science exhibit 'Baseball As America' is a natural for fans Jun 13, 2008
It's the most beautiful sculpture - well, at least the most informative - Louise Nevelson never made. Mark Feeney can be reached at. (Boston Globe)
Edward Albee's Occupant Jun 6, 2008
SHOULD VACATE NOW - New York Post. Friday, June 06, 2008 Last Update: 09:45 AM EDT. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Ye Olde Lessons: Students quiz medieval guests during Fine Arts Week Apr 11, 2008
Projects from previous years, which now decorate the media center, include an all-white junk sculpture similar to the work of artist Louise Nevelson and a hanging kente cloth from a previous year's African culture week. This year's projects include papier-mch dragons and several handmade coats of arms. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Portland museum appeals to all ages Apr 6, 2008
Not surprisingly, there is a special emphasis on artists with ties to Maine like Rockwell Kent, Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane, Marsden Hartley, Louise Nevelson, and the Wyeths, N.C., Andrew, and Jamie. There is also an impressive collection of watercolors and drawings by Winslow Homer, whose studio at nearby Prouts Neck was acquired in 2006 by the museum. (Boston Globe)
Albee, at 80, going strong. Any questions? Mar 28, 2008
Although he turned 80 this month, Albee has not slowed down, debuting his new farce "Me, Myself & I" this year at the McCarter Theatre in New Jersey, directing his early one-acts "The American Dream" and "The Sandbox" for the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York (running through April 19), and shepherding "The Occupant," his play about the artist Louise Nevelson, onto the stage at the Signature Theatre in New York, where it had a few performances in 2001 before the illness of actress Anne Bancroft... (Boston Globe)
Renzo Piano's LA museum opens to public Feb 18, 2008
"Smoke" serves as a gateway to stellar objects upstairs in the Lazarof Collection, including an ensemble of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, outstanding paintings by Picasso from several phases of his career, and works by Edgar Degas, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Louise Nevelson and others. Several members of the art press at the preview likened their encounters with the Lazarof Collection to wandering in MOMA before its 21st century renovation. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Kenneth Baker's art moments Dec 30, 2007
"The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend": (Through Jan. 13. Nevelson staked everything on her own artistic confidence and won, at a time when women still faced extraordinary struggles for art-world recognition. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Mission restaurant crafted by stone and steel artists Nov 18, 2007
Terpeluk often evoked the work of sculptor Louise Nevelson (whose retrospective show is at the de Young Museum) as he and Hunt worked long hours assembling the sinks in various compositions and eventually fastening them together using stainless steel rods and epoxy. A couple are actually working sinks for serving oysters and sodas by the bar. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Every Van Gogh Didn't Go Nov 9, 2007
Works by contemporary artists, including sculptors Louise Nevelson and Alexander Calder and painters Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol, go on the block Wednesday. Koerber isn't optimistic about the results. (SmartMoney)
Review: Louise Nevelson's found at the de Young Nov 8, 2007
I met Louise Nevelson only once, late in her career, early in mine ... "Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend," the retrospective at the de Young Museum, comes at the right moment in several respects ... "First Personage" (1956), the piece at the entrance to "Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend," will bring Bourgeois to the mind of anyone who knows her early work. (San Francisco Chronicle)
CHRISTIE'S ART SALES SOARING Sep 11, 2007
Four world records were set, including a Louise Nevelson work on the block for 150,000, selling for a record 552,000. A Polaroid "Self Portrait in Drag" of Andy Warhol, up for 20,000, fetched 288,000. (New York Post -- Business)
At S.F.'s de Young Museum, fashion exhibitions upset fine art fans Sep 3, 2007
The de Young's current photography retrospective "Hiroshi Sugimoto" should allay such concerns, as might the October opening of "The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend." Both shows touch a level marked by artistic high points in the Fine Arts Museums' collections. But other items on the long calendar inspire skepticism. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Yard art can enhance a garden and transorm a landscape Jun 22, 2007
" Among favorites in her garden gallery rooms is the first sculpture she ever made, in Hugh McPeck's sculpture class at the University of Alaska Anchorage, a study of a Louise Nevelson assemblage, stylized in metal and wood. It's 4-feet tall, 2-feet wide and planted at the front of her house with a Polestar Rose climbing all over it. The reject dress-shop fixture is another. It's a two-dimensional outline of a woman in quarter-inch steel rod made as a mannequin for the Out of the Closet... (Anchorage Daily News)
Student art displayed at Barn Gallery May 18, 2007
This change in pedagogical philosophy and student freedom is readily apparent in many segments of the exhibition from the masks of the series "2 Heads Are Better Than 1" fabricated at the Coastal Ridge Elementary School in York to the wooden assemblages in the style of the world renown Maine artist Louise Nevelson constructed by students of Wells Elementary School. To select individual students for mention would be totally unfair to those whose names were not included in this column, given that... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Art show winners feature fresh faces Apr 29, 2007
" Horodner said the work pays a homage to art history from Louise Nevelson to Michaelangelo to Picasso and even pop art.Horodner said the work was thoughtful and "masterful. "Second place, which wins $1,500, went to Orlando artist Ryan Burkhart's untitled charcoal drawing, which the judge called "dynamic. (Florida Today)
Student artwork on display Mar 11, 2007
Marino's students created three immense relief sculptures in homage to artist Louise Nevelson, an abstract sculptor who died in 1988. To do it, he said, the students took all sorts of small material, from spools to Styrofoam balls, and glued them to matboard. (Middletown Press, CT)
