By Maika Pollack 5/31/11 11:32pm

Museums

Everything But the Kitchen Sink: ‘Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage’ at Princeton University Art Museum

“I am a painter and I nail my pictures together,” Kurt Schwitters said to fellow artist Tristan Tzara in 1919. At a time when German art was a heady mix of Expressionism’s yellow cows, Cubist collage’s angular abstraction and Futurism’s dynamic diagonals, Schwitters, a 32-year-old former art student working in a factory in Hannover, had Read More

By Mario Naves 12/26/05 12:00am

Clear-Eyed Collages Elicit The Mysteries of Everyday Objects

Looking at a piece of art from up close and at a distance lends itself to different, if related, kinds of experience. The artist works at arm’s length, whether wielding a brush, a chisel or a chunk of charcoal. Intimacy is implied through touch, but in engagement too. Yet artists step back from their efforts Read More