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How to Turn Stone Age Wood Into Modern Art

What happens when you turn wood older than civilization itself? In this video, I explore the mysteries of Stone Age timber, preserved for millennia beneath the earth. Every cut reveals ancient beauty ...
Albuquerque Journal

'With the Grain' explores the modern and contemporary works of NM wood carvers

“Carreta de la Muerte,” Patrocinio Barela, 1953, carved wood, leather. (Courtesy of New Mexico Museum of Art/Addison Doty) Art experts have often pigeonholed New Mexican wood carving into categories ...
Artnet

Bordercore: Why Frames Became the New Frontier in Contemporary Art

Years ago, the artist Harry Gould Harvey IV came across a fallen black walnut tree in a friend’s yard. He experienced a moment of revelation and felt a sudden urge to make a frame for his drawings ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Wood Shop

The wood shop is a welcoming space where Art and Art History students, staff, and faculty can build valuable skills in pursuit of their creative research and projects. The wood shop offers a wide ...
The New York Times

Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not)

The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park. Credit...Andy Haslam for ...
The Washington Post

The Nazis loathed modern art. They launched a war against it.

In 1943, Pablo Picasso received a desperate letter from an artist called Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss. “It’s all too late,” she wrote. “I have just been told that Otto has been sent to the north. Please do ...