“At the core of Margolles’s recent work are questions about the insufficiencies of traditional modes of representation. Must a work of art embody or internalize brutality in order to address it?”
New Acquisition
Asher Durand’s Catskill Mountains Near Shandaken
“For Durand, though, painting in nature wasn’t just a mode of practice; it was a way of living and working in communion with the very subject matter he put on canvas.”
Intern Insights
Eastman Johnson's The Party in the Maple Sugar Camp
“The Party in the Maple Sugar Camp is fascinating because it represents a work that never was, a project Johnson had great ambitions for that never came to fruition.”
The Art Doctor
The Language of Art Conservation
The first post in a new series looking at the conservation of objects at the Colby Museum.
First Impressions
Van Gogh & Gachet at Auvers
In his doctor, Vincent Van Gogh found a partner and a brother, but also a fellow patient.
Face Off
Portraiture as Political Effigy
Benjamin Hallowell’s charmed life in Boston came to an end on August 26, 1765. . .
A Supermarket in California
On Alec Soth and Allen Ginsburg
“Every poet, every artist, lives in the shadows of those practitioners she most admires, those whose works have illuminated the world for her.”