ALICE GAUVIN

ALICE GAUVIN

Alexandria, Virginia
Alice Gauvin is a Contributor to The New York Sun.

Alice Gauvin is a curator, writer, and owner of Alice Gauvin Gallery. She has…

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Curatorial Chemistry Proves Phenomenal as National Gallery Teams With Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum To Showcase ‘Little Beasts’

If the show’s underlying thesis is that art and science are symbiotic, this exhibition itself is a case in point.

National Gallery of Art
Culture

Many Are the Happy Marriages Between Art and Space at Maryland’s Lavish Glenstone Museum

For anyone familiar with the currents of contemporary culture, particularly in the nonprofit space, the newly-reopened Glenstone must register as a kind of culmination.

Iwan Baan,
courtesy Glenstone Museum
Culture

Early Optimism Yields to Undiluted Draughts of Anguish in National Gallery’s Exploration of German Expressionism’s Legacy

The movement is embedded into our visual vernacular, particularly in our collective understanding of horror, pain, isolation and anxiety.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Culture

‘British Vision’ at the Met Traces the Origins of the Picturesque Movement in Art — and a Nation in Flux

The works on view reflect and grapple with a series of seismic changes Britain underwent during the tumultuous years between 1700 and 1900.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2016
Culture

Seemingly Neither Organic Nor Man-Made, Mark Rothko’s Paintings on Paper Resonate as a Kind of Communion

This is your chance to see Rothko’s paintings on paper as he intended them — many of them are exhibited without the protective intercession of museum glass between your eyes and his paint.

Copyright 2023 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Culture

An Uncharted Sea of Pathos, Dorothea Lange’s Depression-Era Photos at the National Gallery Inspire Empathy, Not Pity   

She was one of a great generation of photographers whose careers were kickstarted by their work for the feds during the Depression. Sometimes you’ve got to hand it to Uncle Sam.

Via Wikimedia Commons
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