Because conservation is generally behind-the-scenes I want to share this link to a blog written by Christina O’Connell. http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2011/04/28/less-is-more/
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AAM 2011 Update
I just returned from the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, TX. I visited museums, talked with numerous colleagues and sat through several amazing sessions. I also sat through several really boring sessions. The thing I’m taking away from my time there is a reading list. There were so many [...]
2011 Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition
This year the Museum received 320 submissions from 115 artists. The juror, Janie Welker, was tasked with paring this down to around 65 objects. Below is a list of the selected artworks and artists. Congratulations to everyone who was accepted, and those who were not accepted are encouraged to submit again next year. Artist, [...]
…and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.16 And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. [...]
…the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.15 It was then, however that the Prince Prospero, maddening with rage and the shame of his own momentary cowardice, rushed hurriedly through the six chambers–while none followed him on account of a deadly terror that had seized upon all. He bore aloft a [...]
…the vast assembly shrank from the centres of the rooms…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.14 It was in the blue room where stood the prince, with a group of pale courtiers by his side. At first, as he spoke, there was a slight rushing movement of this group in the direction of the intruder, who at the moment [...]
-stop him and strip him, I say…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.13 When the eyes of Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image (which with a slow and solemn movement, as if more fully to sustain its role, stalked to and fro among the waltzers) he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment [...]
The figure was tall and gaunt…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.12 In an assembly of phantasms such as I have painted, it may well be supposed that no ordinary appearance could have excited such sensation. In truth the masquerade license of the night was nearly unlimited; but the figure in question had out-Heroded Herod, [...]
…there were twelve strokes to be sounded…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.11 But now there were twelve strokes to be sounded by the bell of the clock; and thus it happened, perhaps, that more of thought crept, with more of time, into the meditations of the thoughtful among those who reveled. And thus, again, it [...]
…a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic…
click to enlarge Federico Castillon Masque of the Red Death, 1968 1975.39.10 But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes; and the blackness of the sable drapery [...]
