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Amon Carter gets $75,000 to Digitize American Photographers from NEH
The Amon Carter Museum in Fort worth has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the National Endowmwnt for the Humanities. The grant will allow the museum to put 22,000 photographic prints and 200,000 negatives online, by eight prominent American photographers of the 20th century: Carlotta Corpron (1901–1988), Nell Dorr (1893–1988), Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Eliot Porter [...]
Meet Jenna Madison: Amon Carter’s New Interpretation Manager
Jenna Madison has joined the staff of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth as their new Interpretation Mannager. What’s an interpretation manager? The newly-created position’s duties include designing public programs and informative resources to help the Amon Carter’s collection connect with the diverse audiences it’s trying to reach. It seems to be museum education [...]
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The Robinson Report: Wal-Mart Museum of Art Grand Opening
Gaile Robinson, art critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, made the trek to the new Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas and turned in a detailed report on Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton’s ambitious project, which opened Friday. Influenced and partly in collaboration with Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum and its founder, Ruth Carter [...]
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Amon Carter’s John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury
Rugged individuals call for rugged environments. John Marin (1870-1953) does not render the mythological status in art history of Picasso or Pollock, but his work might be a missing link between those two behemoths and the eras they respectively symbolize. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s current exhibition John Marin: Moderninsm at Midcentury offers [...]
![Adam Silverman’s “Reverse Archaeology” for the Kimbell Art Museum](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119000137im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/silverman-storage-unit-150x150.jpg)
Adam Silverman’s “Reverse Archaeology” for the Kimbell Art Museum
After studying and practicing architecture in the 80s and 90s, working in the clothing industry and studying business management, Adam Silverman couldn’t ignore his deep leanings toward ceramics anymore, a hobby he’d practiced since high school. By 2002, it was time to go all in. Silverman threw off all of his other hats to become [...]
Walker’s Amon Carter is “one big museum”
Andrew Walker, who officially becomes the Amon Carter’s new director on Friday, is talking touchy-feely initiatives to the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He’s moving his desk; introducing himself to staff, proposing collaborations between the Carter and a support group of regional museums. No stranger to hyperbole, Walker said, “When I was here seeing the collection [...]