Taking Shape at the McMullen Museum
A groundbreaking exhibition of abstract art from the Arab world in an exclusive New England showing To Monet, Giverny by Abdallah Benanteur (Mostaganem, Algeria, 1931–Ivry-sur-Seine, France, 2017); oil on canvas, 1983.
The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will present the exclusive New England exhibition of
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s, a groundbreaking exhibition drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
The exhibition is open to the public for virtual view through June 6, 2021, and for view in the Daley Family and Monan Galleries to Boston College faculty, staff, and students by appointment.
The critic was known for linking artistic tendencies that few other writers intuited.
December 28, 2020
Frank Stella, his wife Barbara Rose, Larry Poons, Lucinda Childs, Wilder Green, Barnett Newman and William Rubin, in Rubin s apartment, surrounded by artwork by Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb, Willem de Kooning, Andre Masson, Herbert Ferber, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, and David Smith. (Photo by William Grigsby/Condé Nast via Getty Images)
Barbara Rose, the fierce but flexible critic best known for helping to usher in the new vanguard of Minimalism in the 1960s, died on Friday in Concord, New Hampshire. She was 84.
Rose, who was diagnosed with breast cancer a decade ago, made her first major imprint with the 1965
Al Qassemi, who runs the
Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, pledged to make his collection of modern and contemporary Arab art representative of both male and female artists.
He acquired a greater number of works by women artists, and then applied these changes to the display of the collection, which is on long-term loan to the Sharjah Art Museum. Titled
A Century in Flux: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation: Chapter II, the show now finishes its first year of gender parity – but the decision remains controversial. What happens when, instead of working towards an equal representation of men and women through incremental change, you leapfrog to its realisation?