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Zoe Wray

Wowed by Warhol: An Indelible Fall Break Excursion

Hacked Super Mario Brothers. Pillow-shaped silver balloons. Velvet flowers. Dr. Scholl’s Corns. Cat litter. Urine as paint. Cellophane-wrapped candy. All this, and a dizzying amount more, await visitors to “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s latest blockbuster
October 11, 2012

What a Museum Should Be

In the hyper-commercialized world of today, nearly every museum that visitors enter thrusts useless but appealing merchandise into their patrons’ faces, giving them more opportunities than they could possibly want or afford to buy artsy trinkets. Museums no longer consist of an
September 26, 2012

Nude Models Bare All

“The human form is a very complex form [through which] to study light and value and volume… every drawing lesson you could possible desire to teach a student could be taught by that subject.” Such is the reason, according to Logan Grider,
September 19, 2012

Not Your Mother’s Prom

The high school prom does not usually provide fodder for larger issues of societal representation. It typically entails dancing, hijinks and perhaps tomfoolery — or does it? “Prom: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark,” on view now through October 28 in the Julien
September 12, 2012

Visions of… Arcadia?

“Visions of Arcadia,” on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Dorrance Special Exhibition Galleries through September 3, attempts to demonstrate the profound influence of Arcadia, as described by Virgil in his Eclogues, on French artists throughout history, beginning with
August 30, 2012
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