What A Long Strange Road It s Been. Paintings from Quarantine
Thursday, July 15, 2021 to Monday, September 6, 2021
Celebrating 45 years of painting Maine, this exhibition showcases the virtuosic hand of world-renowned artist Barbara Prey who paints powerful views of her surroundings. What a Long Strange Road It’s Been: Paintings from Quarantine features never before seen monumental paintings highlighting her distinct American vision. The New York Times writes, “Prey is going where icons like Rauschenberg and Warhol have gone before”. A key figure in American painting, her work is included in major public collections including The National Gallery of Art, The White House, The Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Kennedy Space Center and United States Embassies worldwide. MASS MoCA commissioned Prey to paint the world’s largest known watercolor currently on longterm exhibit. She is appointed by the President of the United States to the National Council
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Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia hires new chief curator from Smithsonian
Alexander Mann. Photo: Libby Weiler.
SAVANNAH, GA
.-Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia the oldest public art museum in the South and the first U.S. museum founded by a woman has hired an accomplished art-world veteran as its new chief curator and director of curatorial affairs.
Crawford Alexander Mann III will join Telfair in November 2021 from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., where he has been curator of prints and drawings since 2017. At the Smithsonian, Mann has organized world-class exhibitions including the major upcoming survey Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano. Before the Smithsonian, he served as the Joan and Macon Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island.
Constellation, by Helen Gerardia, 1956. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Samuel Sumner Goldberg, 1977.
The month he was to be sworn in as the first vice president of the United States, John Adams expected to see a comet. In fact, Adams helped to pay for a publication announcing the celestial appearance, an auspicious astronomical event for the first month of the new federal government.
Since the classical era, comets had been imagined as ill omens for rulers. Plutarch linked the appearance of a comet to the death of Julius Caesar, and William Shakespeare would invoke this association in the sixteenth century when he wrote a play dramatizing Caesar’s assassination. But while the traditional link between the appearance of comets and the deaths of kings had not changed by the late eighteenth century, the ultimate meaning of that association had changed entirely. Revolutions and rebellions had taken on very different associations by this time, and so comets had likewise come