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The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center's innovative exhibition Space, Time, and Narrative: Mapping Gothic France now extended through 6/10.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents the innovative exhibition Space, Time, and Narrative: Mapping Gothic France, now extended through June 10, 2012.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents the exhibition "Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu," 4/13 - 6/17.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents the exhibition Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu as well as a selection of Mehretu’s paintings and drawings from the collection of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn ’89 and Nicolas Rohatyn, April 13 - June 17, 2012.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents the exhibition "Nature in America: Taming the Landscape," 6/29 - 8/26.
This summer the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents an exhibition that highlights the evolution of the depiction of the American landscape—from Hudson River School painters through World War II artists. "Nature in America: Taming the Landscape" will be on view from June 29 through August 26, 2012.
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Late Night at the Lehman Loeb
Thursday, May 17, 5:00 -9:00 pm
Late Night at the Lehman Loeb
Thursday, May 24, 5:00 -9:00 pm
Late Night at the Lehman Loeb
Thursday, May 31, 5:00 -9:00 pm
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- Reading the Open Missal
Today’s post comes from Joe Brichacek, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent. The Open Missal has long been a favorite in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s collection. It is both stunningly realistic and highly symbolic. Indeed, the more time you spend with the work, the more details you find, and the more insight you are able to glean. Even the attribution to the German artist Ludger tom Ring the Younger is due to a small detail in the fictive text that reads “Ludevi Rinki,” and many other beautiful and meaningful facets crowd the composition: The large margins of the pages show the opulence of those that could afford large amounts of paper. Similarly, the straps remind us that books have not always been simply checked out of a local library, they were precious items kept under lock and key. The flowers and insects on the right of the composition anticipate the later genre of Northern European floral art, of which Ludger tom Ring was a progenitor. These allegorical flowers and insects frame an image which is largely obscured by a moving page, but the skull at the bottom readily indicates that the image is a crucifixion scene. Even read more
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