On the Record with Matthew Rarey, African Art Scholar
Christian Bolles, Arts Editor
December 9, 2016
Filed under ARTS, On the Record
Assistant Professor of the Arts of Africa of the black Atlantic Matthew Rarey joined Oberlin’s art history department in fall 2015 and has since made strides toward building a comprehensive African art history curriculum for students. The first professor in his position at Oberlin, his background r...
AMAM’s “Conversations” Explores Asian Artistic Influence
Julia Peterson, Production Editor
October 28, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Features, Visual Art
The Allen’s newest exhibit, Conversations: Past and Present in Asia and America challenges the popular assumption that art embodies a strict chronological progression from past to present and influence to influenced. To Curator of Asian Art Kevin Greenwood, it is a much more active process of cultural ...
Framing the Allen: Abstraction Shows Artist Evolution
Rachel Mead, Columnist
September 23, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
The Allen Memorial Art Museum holds nearly 14,000 objects in its own collections. With the physical limits of its galleries, there is no way to exhibit all of this art. This is the first installation in a bimonthly column in which the Review will be bringing unseen favorites of the AMAM staff to t...
More than Matisse: Art Rental Continues to Broaden Arts Exposure
Rachel Mead
September 9, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
The Art Rental Program at the Allen Memorial Art Museum has been active for over 75 years, allowing students to rent pieces of art from the museum’s collection every semester for only $5 each. Professor of Modern Art Ellen Johnson, OC ’33, founded the program based on her dedication to bringing people...
AMAM Highlights Disabled Artists in A Picture of Health
Julia Peterson, Production Editor
February 5, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Features, Visual Art
Since mid-January, visitors to the Allen Memorial Art Museum who climb the stairs to the Ripin Gallery have been able to peruse the exhibit A Picture of Health: Art and the Mechanisms of Healing. The exhibit includes everything from paintings and sculptures to amulets and an interactive rotorelief, all of w...
Painting Exhibit Depicts Bodies, Human Agency
Luke Nikkanen
February 5, 2016
Filed under ARTS, Recent Stories, Visual Art
Judit Reigl’s Body of Music exhibit, the first retrospective of her work in the United States, is a visceral exploration of the forces that govern the human body and our autonomy. In an exhibit that opened Tuesday at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, her works embody our collective desire for freedom ...
New Curator’s Exhibit Explores Artists’ Imagination
Nicolas Hen
February 14, 2014
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
Anyone who’s taken a drawing class has likely heard the instruction, “Draw what you see.” But how does one draw what one can’t see? As an exploration of this topic, the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s Curator of European and American Art Andaleeb Banta has put together a collection of prints that...
Nord Family Fund Ensures Education Outreach Remains Permanent
Nora Kipnis, Arts Editor
February 14, 2014
Filed under ARTS, Features
As college students, we are used to sitting in a classroom listening to lectures by someone one or two generations older than us. But at the Tuesday Teas at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, the situation is reversed; this past Tuesday, a small crowd of local adults, including many residents of Kendal at...
Introduction to Art Rental: A First-Timer’s Experience
Nicole Gutman
February 22, 2013
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
I had never participated in Art Rental before, but I wanted to give it a try. Before I started at Oberlin I met College junior Brenna Larson who, when we met for dinner, told me about Art Rental. The big thing she mentioned was the list. Most people come to the museum the night before Art Rental begins...
Renaissance Performance Caps Off First Thursdays Season
Oliver Levine
December 14, 2012
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
This year has been an exciting one for the Allen Memorial Art Museum and its curatorial accomplishments. The successful transformation of the Allen’s Ellen Johnson Gallery into a pseudo-Renaissance chapel has been a major success, exploring themes in religion, ritual and performance. To further explore...
First Thursdays Start Again: Dr. Kanter on the ‘Birth’ of the Renaissance
Oliver Levine
October 12, 2012
Filed under ARTS, Visual Art
Held on the first Thursday of every month, the fall 2012 edition of Allen Memorial Art Museum’s “First Thursdays” speaker series began on Oct. 4th. This month, Dr. Laurence Kanter, OC ’76, chief curator and curator of Renaissance art at the Yale University Art Gallery, presented a lecture titl...