The New York Times covers the opening of Roxy Paine's huge sculpture Maelstrom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's rooftop garden, complete with an audio slideshow of its installation in which Paine discusses the work. To see more of Paine's works, which have an undeniable power, click here.
The paper also considers, in the course of reviewing the new exhibition Compass in Hand: Selections From the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, the curatorial difficulties that can be associated with a huge gift, welcome as it might be in many ways. (There's also a slideshow of the drawings, which include a Lee Bontecou.)
And it has a favorable impression of The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, which just opened at the Met and has been receiving a lot of other good press. (Slideshow here.) The Met itself has a useful essay on its website about how, exactly, to define the generation addressed in the exhibition.
The Morris Museum of Art, in Augusta, Ga., will open Southern Eccentric: Paintings by Larry Connatser on May 2. The New Georgia Encyclopedia has a good entry on Connatser, a prolific self-taught Georgia artist who painted murals in several cities within the state.
Art Daily also has an article on Bank of America's Museums on Us program, which enables BOA customers to receive free admission to numerous museums (listed at the end of the article) one weekend a month. (Note that being a member of the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art provides one with similar advantages.) GMOA is not part of the program for the simple reason that we already have free admission.
Finally, today and tomorrow (April 24 and 25) is the Second Annual Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums Conference in Second Life. We're sorry about the late notice, but we're sure you can still get in if you'd like to.
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