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Contest Follow-up: How Many Women are Represented in Janson’s?
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: June 27, 2011
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Want to see influential work by genre-defining artists like Frida Kahlo? Don’t look in Janson’s! A few weeks ago, we challenged readers to guess the number of women artists included in the 8th edition of Janson’s Basic History of Western Art. We were inspired by one of our current exhibitions, The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back, [...]
Win NMWA’s Tiny Folio! Guess the Number of Women Artists in Janson’s History of Art
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: June 13, 2011
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After learning about Dutch painter Clara Peeters while traveling in Europe in the 1960s, Wilhelmina Holladay, NMWA’s founder, looked up the artist in Janson’s History of Art. She referenced Janson’s because she understood that it was a classic, widely used survey of Western art. However, not only was Peeters not listed, there were no women included [...]
Caption Writing Contest #2!
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: November 3, 2009
Congratulations to Jane Mason, winner of the “Telling Secrets” Caption Writing Contest #1 ! NMWA’s Web 2.0 Team enjoyed her caption “Just loosen your corset and breathe!” for Jane Hammond’s Untitled (141/257), 1989. Curious about what Jane Hammond was thinking when she made the painting? The work is a direct response to an art critic [...]
Telling Secrets Caption Contest #1
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: October 20, 2009
Today marks the debut of Broad Strokes’ Telling Secrets: Codes, Captions and Conundrums in Contemporary Art caption contest! Every two weeks for the duration of the exhibition, we’ll post one image from the show for you to get creative with. The first work is Jane Hammond’s Untitled (141, 257), pictured below. Muse, ponder, look, and [...]
“Telling Secrets” Scavenger Hunt Contest!
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: October 13, 2009
Be a sleuth at NMWA! We’re excited to announce a brand new scavenger hunt contest in connection with our fall exhibition, “Telling Secrets: Codes, Captions, and Conundrums in Contemporary Art!” Come the museum, pick up a scavenger hunt form (or download it here), and track down secrets hidden in works of art throughout the exhibition! [...]
