What Is Connoisseurship Nowadays? Ask Minneapolis Institute of Arts

by Judith H. Dobrzynski  •  Oct 19, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Cross-posted from ArtsJournal.Com

http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/2009/10/what-is-connoisseurship-nowadays-ask-minneapolis

To hear some people tell it, connoisseurship is a concept that has been lost by much of the art world -- or at the very least, underplayed. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts this week opens an exhibition that instead puts connoisseurship back in the spotlight.

In Pursuit of a Masterpiece, which opened on Sunday, has been designed to help visitors take a closer look at nearly two dozen paintings, prints and other objects in the museum's permanent collection and compare their quality, their form and the techniques used to produced them. They come from seven curatorial departments.

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