Month: December 2010
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The Smith College Museum of Art
The Smith College Museum of Art provides a six-week intensive summer program, The Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies. It is especially appropriate for undergraduates and recent college graduates. The website is www.smith.edu/siams. Application deadline: March 11, 2011, and there is “generous financial assistance.” For students contemplating a museum career, this program might be an…
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Tom Wolf in Exhibition
bOb Gallery presents: ODYSSEY New works by: William Anthony Paul Carpenter Karen Shaw William Stone Tom Wolf Opening Reception: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:00-10:00 pm bOb Gallery 239 Eldridge Street, L.E.S, N.Y. 10002 (between Houston and Stanton) December 7-January 7, 2010
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Tom’s Picks
As the winter holidays approach New York art institutions are cutting loose with scads of fascinating exhibitions to attract tourists, locals and potential shoppers. At Gagosian uptown you can see John Currin’s recent paintings. All sold, they feature finely rendered, sexually suggestive women—and sexually explicit women (with other women). These surround the center-piece of the…
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A Former Art History Student Goes To Peru
Summer 2010 – Jessica Blau With the advent of the Haiti earthquake in January, I was very keen to volunteer there with the relief aid; however due to political tensions in Haiti, the organization I was set to volunteer with suggested that I also look into volunteer opportunities in Pisco, Peru, which had been victim…