Copyright 2013 Judith H. Dobrzynski Thu, 23 May 2013 01:40:02 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Judith H. Dobrzynski :: Writings http://www.judithdobrzynski.com jhdobrzynski@nyc.rr.com (Judith H. Dobrzynski) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/13215/the-art-of-the-hunt Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST THE next time you visit an art museum, look around — not at the paintings, but at the people in the galleries. It's a fair bet that women will outnumber men; even government statistics say so. More women than men study art, too, at both undergraduate and... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/13183/charting-the-role-they-played Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Winterthur, Del. It would not be a stretch to say that "Common Destinations: Maps in the American Experience" exists by popular demand. The curator of the exhibition, Martin Brückner, is a literature professor at the University of Delaware who in 2006... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/13133/manet-meets-the-movies Fri, 5 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST Can "event films" popularize fine art the way high-definition simulcasts have done for opera? Phil Grabsky, an award-winning British filmmaker, has staked money on it. His "Manet: Portraying Life," set to make its debut next Thursday on about 1,000 movie... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/13116/master-of-modern-marquetry Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST Silas Kopf, dressed in worn jeans and work shirt, hovers over a cluttered work table and traces the contours of a tiny eye – no more than a quarter of an inch across – onto six pieces of wood veneer of various hues. In seconds, he cuts them out with a... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/13093/examining-sargent-shift-from-oil-to-watercolors Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST BY the time John Singer Sargent reached his mid-40s at the beginning of the 20th century, he had long been saluted as the best society portrait painter of the Gilded Age. But he was having a midlife career crisis. He was a darling of established critics,... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/13091/crystal-bridges-answers-criticism-with-post-war Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST Fortified by three major 20th-century acquisitions made last fall—including two revealed exclusively to The Art Newspaper—the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is making sweeping changes in its post-war permanent collection galleries. Donald Judd's... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/13086/country-music-temple-stays-in-financial-tune Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST VINCE GILL was there, singing about his wife's smile. Emmylou Harris started off with "Love Hurts." Jason Aldean sang "Big Green Tractor," and laughed about hitting the big time with a tune about a farm vehicle. Late last month, they and a handful of... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/13081/in-denver-exhibits-interweave-genres Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST THIS summer, the Denver Art Museum is staging a blockbuster exhibition — make that exhibitions. Called "Spun: Adventures in Textiles," it presents about a dozen exhibits, all variations on the theme, and is designed to address a chronic problem at... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/13057/seats-of-learning-chairs-fit-for-a-connoisseur Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:00:00 EST Who would collect chairs? Everyone has dining and sitting room chairs, but on first glance it seems hard to explain the 53 chairs purchased over the last half-dozen years by Diane Jacobsen. Her chairs rarely match. Quite the opposite – they range from an... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/12927/the-imaginary-made-nearly-real Sat, 9 Feb 2013 09:00:00 EST The recent "Bronze" exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, a sweeping display of works made all over the world during the past 5,000 years, brought together more than 150 of the finest bronzes known to art historians. This remarkably varied array... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/12873/a-new-way-forward Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:00:00 EST Salem, Mass. Quietly, the Peabody Essex Museum here has undergone a remarkable transformation. In 1993, when Dan L. Monroe arrived to become director, the Peabody (dating to 1799) and the Essex (1821) had recently merged with a yet-to-be-determined... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/12804/a-re-doubt-able-effort Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:00:00 EST Spend some time with John Patrick Shanley, the author of "Doubt: A Parable," and you will see why he is one of today's most successful playwrights: He's a master of the entertaining line that lingers. One sample: What did "Doubt," which won the Pulitzer... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/12472/the-pleasures-of-postcards Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:00:00 EST In 1938 or '39, a boy of five or six, or maybe seven, was so enthralled by the beauty of a postcard of the Empire State Building that he took his entire five-cent allowance and bought five of them—all exactly the same image. "I can see that postcard... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/12464/a-champion-of-the-wari-lords-of-the-andes Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:00:00 EST As Susan E. Bergh walked through the special exhibition galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art one day last week, she was surrounded by wooden crates—some empty, some opened, some still locked. Inside were many of the objects with which she will reveal... http://www.judithdobrzynski.com/12397/becoming-van-gogh-a-show-built-stroke-by-stroke Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:00:00 EST It took more than a dash of boldness for Timothy J. Standring, curator of painting and sculpture at the Denver Art Museum, to propose an exhibition about Vincent van Gogh. The museum doesn't own a single work by the artist, leaving Mr. Standring no...