(Or maybe they're just thankful to have someone to talk to on a Saturday in summer?) The exhibition, "Color Alert," has paintings and monotypes inspired by the post-9/11 color-coded government terror alert levels.
The exhibition means to alert viewers to a movement described by its organizer, David Pagel, the museum's adjunct curator, as "somewhere between the homespun, homegrown, almost hokey earnestness of good old-fashioned Americana and the hands-off, post-industrial cool of American Pop".
The exhibition of an alert is an obvious and discrete behavior.
But Jane Pritchard, a curator of "Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929" athehe museum, wrote in a blog post titled "I eat my words!" that after giving a presentation on the exhibition, an audience member alerted her to the clip and asked if it was possibly the troupe.
They expressed surprise that the local police had not been alerted that the diamond exhibition was taking place and took note of a robbery at the Carlton in 1994 when a security guard was shot and wounded.
The exhibition may bring more Shearer data to light, alerting historians to look for his name in ledgers or diaries.
It was no jump for critics to call them cubes to which the "ism" was quickly attached.Picasso, perhaps alerted by the attention Braque's exhibition attracted, as well as the boldness of his experiments, befriended the artist.
Alert as he was to the dangers of exhibitions, he was also honest enough to admit that on many occasions he had been thrilled by the pleasures they can provide.
"NRA Withdraws from Eastern Sports & Outdoors Show Due to Reed Exhibitions Decision to Ban Modern Sporting Rifles," read the headline of the NRA alert.
His alert eye for contemporary work led him to champion Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, whom he brought together in the exhibition "New Documents" (1967).
New Guild Members exhibition.
