Stories for April 2007

On the Calendar: The Week of April 30, 2007

April 27, 2007

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Round-Table Discussion with Christenberry, Bates, Saar, and Beck

April 19, 2007

William Christenberry, Alabama Wall I, 1985, metal and tempera on wood, 45 3/8 x 50 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1986.8 Tomorrow at 3:00 p.m., Chief Curator Eleanor Harvey hosts a discussion with artists William Christenberry, David...


Etcetera

April 12, 2007

Karoline von Günderode is not a name you'd expect to pop up in modern art—she was a minor German Romantic poet. Her history, however, is fascinating, marked by fatal longing. After being refused romantically by the philologist Friedrich Creuzer, von...


Simryn Gill

April 9, 2007

Simryn Gill's Pearls at the Sackler Gallery. Though it opened in fall last year, Perspectives, a mini-retrospective of Simryn Gill's work at the Sackler Gallery, complements the spring Craft Invitational at the Renwick. One piece in the Sackler show represents...