Category: Art

Wesleyan University’s Davison Art Collection has one of the most robust print collections of all American universities. Home to over twenty-five thousand works of art, their print collection spans from woodcuts to lithographs to monotypes. But Pruzan Art Center’s newest exhibit, “Engraving after 1900: A Technique in Its Time,” spotlights a method of printmaking often …

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Maybe it’s the compact walls of the Goldrach Gallery, or maybe it’s the show’s refusal to be firmly chronological, but “Engraving After 1900: A Technique in its Time” reminds me of a carousel. A little dizzying, nice to look at, self-serious but also fun.  Only a glass wall, embossed with the exhibition title, separates Pruzan …

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“Egg, Earth, and Essence” and its Peculiar Placement in Smith Reading Room There is a point in a given economic and cultural production model defined by excessive consumption where the objects we produce result in things closer to what we are fed. It happened a couple of decades ago. The plastic of mass consumerism leaked …

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