MCC’s Mercer Gallery hosts exhibit of Indigenous visual activism to raise awareness about threats to the environment
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Collaborative creativity, curated
The 2017-18 arts season will feature group shows and exhibits that span multiple venues.
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Throwing sculptural shade
Mercer Gallery kicked off the academic art season with “Elliott Arkin: Lifetime Achievement Exhibition” a retrospective of five decades of the artist’s work. Arkin is known for his clever, satirical sculptures that poke fun at everyone from artists, art dealers, and art critics to politicians and popes. While the sarcastic pieces punch at exalted art, […]
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ART: The end is the beginning
Even though autumn heralds the close of the year, and the death, decay, or otherwise slumberfest of nature, to me the crisp, fresh air always feels like a beginning. This probably comes in part from our everlasting association of autumn with going back to school. Now that school is back in session, many of the […]
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The exquisite corpse drinks the new wine
In 1924 Andre Breton, the “father” of Surrealism, defined the new movement as something “[d]ictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason [and] exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.” For the Surrealists, truth was not the thing that was in front of us but was hidden and buried from view. […]
