Tag: art work on loan
Kusama Chair on World Tour; Sculpture by Donald Lipski on View in June
By Bridgette Beard, Communications Assistant If you have been in the museum in the last couple weeks you might have missed something in our Sandra L. and Dennis B. Haslinger Family Foundation Gallery. Where there was once two iconic chairs by Yayoi Kusama, there now is only one…for the time being. Akron Art Museum’s white Arm Chair has left the Akron Art Museum to become part of a world tour retrospective of Yayoi Kusama organized by the Tate Modern in London, England. ABOUT YAYOI KUSAMA
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),