Tucson Weekly: Rare Specimen (February 11 - February 17, 1999)
The UA Museum Of Art Housed A Real Treasure: Director Peter Bermingham. By Margaret Regan FOUR OR FIVE summers ago, Peter Bermingham the artist surfaced in Davis Dominguez Gallery's Small Works Invitational. The director of the University of Arizona Museum of Art, he had contributed a deadpan fantasy of a museum in chaos. Calling the work "Untitled (After Theodore Géricault's 'Raft of the Medusa' 1818-1819)," Bermingham painted a torrent of water spewing out of the Géricault on a museum wall. There was a dangerous, flooded moat right below the painting, but a soaked survivor was pulling h...