“The cause of art is the cause of the people.” Those words, written by William Morris, are a maxim that the Allen Memorial Art Museum has lived by since opening on the Oberlin College campus in 1917. The letters are chiseled into stone above the front doors of the museum building designed by Cass Gilbert. Like its Cleveland counterpart, the […]
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test pit – a small preliminary excavation made to gain an idea of the contents of an archaeological site. Much like an archaeologist, New York artist Fred Wilson has made a career digging to uncover long lost or hidden treasures.[1] Wilson burrows into the conventional Western history of art, mines academic and historical writing, and in many cases, he physically […]
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Artist and MacArthur “genius” grant recipient Fred Wilson has created two exhibitions—one of works that he made or fabricated, and one drawn from the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum—that explore themes of race, time, memory, and meaning. Both call on viewers to reconsider the historical narratives typically disseminated by scholars and museums. Wilson has been making trips […]
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The Allen Memorial Art Museum presents a survey exhibition of the work of Judit Reigl, one of the foremost figures of European painting to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. Judit Reigl: Body of Music is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in a United States museum. Born in Hungary in 1923, Reigl escaped from behind […]
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