Museum Visitors Demand Refunds, Claiming No Artworks Were "Souped"
“Now I have nothing to complain about at my next cocktail party,” lamented one woman after failing to witness a climate protest at The Met.
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“Now I have nothing to complain about at my next cocktail party,” lamented one woman after failing to witness a climate protest at The Met.
The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, which was extensively renovated and reinvigorated a few years ago, has two sharp modern exhibits on view for a few more weeks. “Andy Warhol: Endangered Species” is a series of colorful prints the pop artist did for a charitable cause in 1983. The prints are augmented for the exhibit with “tactile” renderings for the sight-impaired (basically Warhol’s strong ...
The exhibit is called “Not All Backpacks Carry the Same Weight.”
As part of a series, we asked the artistic director of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation about what she values most—in art and in life.
We spoke with the 'Hope' artist about the meaning behind works in the Shepard Fairey: Art as Activism sale.