Category: Akron Art Museum
First Annual Chili Cook-Off to Benefit United Way
By Cristina Alexander, Assistant to the Director What’s the secret to the best chili? Some say the hotter the better; others prefer a hint of sweetness. But it was for the judge to decide at the Akron Art Museum’s first annual Chili Cook-Off on Tuesday, November 9, held in the museum’s lobby. Eight staff members entered their favorite chili recipes and went head to head in a blind contest judged by Board of Trustee member, Rory O’Neil. Every chili varied in flavor and presentation –
Culture Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Paintings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
Culture Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Paintings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum October 16, 2010 – February 27, 2011 Four internationally renowned artists – Zeng Fanzhi, Wang Guangyi, Shen Jiawei and Hung Liu – reflect on the rapidly changing terrain of contemporary Chinese culture in lush, poetic paintings on loan from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Political Pop meets expressionism, realism, history and nostalgia in paintings that comment on China’s present and future while evoking its political past. During China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976),
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present October 23, 2010 – January 23, 2011 Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries For the first time as a major museum exhibition, the story of rock and roll is being told from the perspective of the men and women who not only chronicled the genre, but defined it comprehensively – the photographers. Acknowledging both their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music, the exhibition features 163 works of photography and eight
Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore
Andrew Moore’s photographs of the Motor City are sublime—beautiful, operatic in scale and drama, tragic yet offering a glimmer of hope. They are the subject of Detroit Disassembled, an exhibition organized by the Akron Art Museum making its debut here before touring nationally. Detroit, once the epitome of our nation’s industrial wealth and might, has been in decline for almost a half-century. The city is now one-third empty land—more abandoned property than any American city except post-Katrina New Orleans.
Arctic Re-visions: Isaac Julien’s True North
Arctic Re-visions: Isaac Julien’s True North June 5, 2010 – October 3, 2010 Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries The sound and video installation True North (2004) is a journey into the beautiful yet terrifying midst of a sublime continent. Internationally acclaimed British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien immerses viewers in the haunting landscape of the North Pole, which has seduced scientists, explorers, writers and visual artists since the 19th century. This presentation of the three-screen multi-media installation will mark the debut of this important work
Welcome to the Akron Art Museum
Spanning three centuries, the Akron Art Museum combines a late nineteenth-century brick and limestone building with the twenty-first century John S. and James L. Knight Building, a soaring glass and steel structure by the celebrated Viennese architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au. The brick building opened in 1899 as Akron’s main post office. Designed under the direction of James Knox Taylor, supervising architect for the Treasury Department, it has walls of deep red brick laid in the Flemish Bond pattern and adorned with limestone trim. Pairs of