Some links:
- Neon sign, neon sign, you get me every time. I'd buy one. It's a crime, by the way, that the record with the song whose lyrics I'm quoted is not commercially available. Absolute crime.
- I don't know how I missed this, but from the archives, a review of Harvard's Winthrop Collection when it toured some years ago. I like to make fun of the Winthrop Collection, even though it does have many superlative works, because of its utter strangeness--or rather, its devotion to all sorts of byways of nineteenth century art that one doesn't normally see featured so prominently, at least in American museums. Along with all the artists we tend to think of as canonical, there's a deep taste for fantasy and the macabre--very nineteenth century--that brings someone like Moreau front and center in the Collection's version of art history. All the more reason why the review is right to wish for greater attention to the history of taste as part of the exhibition and catalog.
- Thinking of going to see Art School Confidential? Don't.
- Pollock and art conservation in the Berkshires. I had forgotten the syposium was happening this past weekend, or I might have tried to drive out for it. Given the weather, that probably would not have been a good idea. I'm probably going to wait to see the show at Williams until the Clark Brothers exhibition opens. Two birds, etc. Then I can write all summer long on what I saw at Williamstown, just like last year.
- A couple of photographs of work by Daly Genik, the architect for Harvard's new (temporary) museum.
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