Saturday, December 21, 2013

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

There were some interesting things in their International biennial but nothing like their collection, by the way many of the paintings gained in past biennials.












Columbus, Museum of Art


The Columbus Museum now under construction, making their new new wing as they already had an addition. I have a previous post to the right, from another year.

http://bottsmuseum.blogspot.com/2008/05/columbus-museum-of-art.html











Gerard Malanga, by Alice Neel.




Bellows was from Columbus. These just back from big NYC and Washington retrospectives.





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Such bravura paint died young 47, I think, from ruptured appendix.


New Wing for St Louis Art Museum



I just wrote on the Kansas City page,  "These New wings get old very fast. They are white when new and become grey." But amazing even on this rainy day.












Though really dumb benches, what were they thinking?