Met Museum’s New Installation Positions African Masks with Works by Modern and Contemporary Artists

NEW YORK, NY.- Highly creative re-imaginings of the iconic form of the African mask comprise a unique installation held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning March 8. Featuring 20 works of art—19 sculptures and one photograph—Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents reflects on the enduring relevance of African masks as a source of inspiration for artists across cultures into the present. Highlights of the installation are whimsical sculptures created from [...]

Outdoor Installation of Over 100 Terra Cotta Fish at Fuller Craft Museum

BROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum presents Migration, an installation by S. Dartmouth, Massachusetts-based painter and ceramic artist Nancy Train Smith, on view through Oct. 31, 2010 in the courtyard moat on the bucolic grounds of the Museum. Consisting of over 100 terracotta fish figures, the installation is a dramatic reinterpretation of the landscape through the visual tension between form, location, and color. Located on 22 acres of woodland on the shores of Porter’s Pond, Fuller Craft Museum provides a picturesque [...]