Some of the talk among the nearly 3000 participants at this year’s reunion Weekend foucused on how ND has changed;new buildings going up around campus helped to prompt those conversations.But the event’s magic mixture of old and new, of the innovative and the indelible ,went far beyond bricks and mortar.attendees generally agreed that they experienced the emotional, intellectural,social, and spiritual delights that they expected-and more.
the more things change, the more they stay the same.
an exhibition by the accalaimed sculptor, a homecoming for the native son
the most startling work in the National Gallery’s Martin Puryear wxhibition is a 36-foot ladder of ash and maple that wobbles skyward in the grand West building rotunda. It hovers over the greaming marble floor, its lower rungs at two-foot intervals, its final rungs only two inches apart. Amarvel of manipulated perspective, this rough, vernacular object lifts toward the coffered dome of a museum whose galleries, only steps away, hold masterpieces of art that expain the discovery of such an illusion.
1986-lives in Romeas visiting artist at the american Academy(and again 1992-93,1997-98 as artist -in-residence)
bower of the Sitta spruce and pine at the Smithsonian american Art museum;
“amennities” in a plazza at 7700 Old Georgetown road,Bethesda,Maryland.
Modernist photographers alfred Sttieglitz,Ansel Adams and Robert Adams each created, decades apart, the own series of outdoor photographs of places very dear to them, exporing the relationship of time to photography and the ways in which sequences of images can address larger issues.Operatic yet calm, the three series have never been exhibited together- and since its 1923 exhibition,Stieglitz’s series has never been shownin its entirety.
Some 150 luxurous works of art excavated from the opulent houses of the urban elite in Pompeii and from nearby villas alone the shoreline of the Bay of Naples illustrate the region’s importance as an artistic center in the first exhibition devoted to ancient Roman art at galery.Expuisite objects reveal the breath of cultural and artistic life, as well as the influence of classical Greece on roman ar and culture in this region.
