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Blue Water believes that, even in a sea of digital media, relationships still matter, which is why we work hard to stay in touch with editors, writers and reporters. As a result, our clients are regularly featured in major media outlets, along with those that reach a highly targeted audience unique to their work.
Artnet News: A bigger audience for the late Aminah Robinson
The late artist Aminah Robinson dedicated her life to recovering America’s lost history. At last, she’s finding a bigger audience. A sprawling show of her work is on view at the Columbus Museum of Art, an institution that was close to her heart. – Sarah Cascone, writing about Raggin’ On: The Art of Aminah Robinson’s House and Journals.
The Observer: Quilting as a Radical Act
“And so we’re going to have to change that image of quilting we have in our heads, the one where matronly figures with prim buns bend over fabric scraps. The medium has been revolutionized. Or rather, in fact, it was always revolutionary.” – Karen Chernick, writing about TMA’s Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change.
Art & Object: Bill Viola’s The Raft at the Chazen
Video installation invites University of Wisconsin-Madison audiences to consider the human and community impacts of disasters.
NPR: Think These Times Are Surreal? Add A Small Dose Of Dalí To Your Day
NPR’s Susan Stamberg invites us to take a little trip, virtually or otherwise, to The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Artnet News: The Fralin helps UVA Medical School launch new course for medical students
Medical school professors put together “Confronting Epidemics: Perspectives from History, Ethics, and the Arts” in a matter of days after the school’s sudden closure in mid-March. In developing the course, the instructors worked with M. Jordan Love, a curator at the Fralin who consulted on imagery to help students understand how societies have understood prior pandemics.
Philanthropy News Digest: Art Bridges offers COVID-19 support for partners
Art Bridges, Alice Walton’s foundation dedicated to expanding access to American art, has announced a $5 million commitment in support of museums impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Healthcare Design: DesignGroup transforms Norton Children’s Hospital
DesignGroup led the renovation of the fourth floor of Norton Children’s Hospital into the Jennifer Lawrence Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU), a specialized unit for pediatric heart patients requiring intensive care.
Newly conserved Soviet-era painting illuminates diplomatic history
In 2018, the Chazen added a new work, Reconnaissance Attack by Latvian artist Arkadaii Soloviev, to the Davies Collection. The first addition to the Davies Collection since the collection’s establishment, the painting depicts Soviet troops with guns drawn moving through a snow-covered landscape. Reconnaissance Attack was given to Davies by Joseph Stalin’s Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, in 1943.
The Wall Street Journal: Midnight in Paris at the Dalí Museum
Lance Eslund reviews Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads: 1929, which opened at The Dalí Museum in February 2020. An exhibition that is “More than melting watches,” Midnight in Paris “reveals the breadth of the movement before it exploded onto the global scene.”
The Chazen Museum of Art’s director blogs for AAM
A few years into her tenure as director of the Chazen Museum of Art, Dr. Amy Gilman has witnessed the power of listening, research and experimentation, and partnerships. She shares her thoughts in this post: “What it means to be a university museum in the 21st century.”
President Lynnette Werning receives strategic planning certification
Our founder and president Lynnette Werning recently completed an 18-month Strategic Planning Professional certification.
American Fine Art Magazine: Midnight in Paris at The Dalí Museum
The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, examines the surrealist movement and its protagonists in the exhibition Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads, 1929, through April 9.
