Fine Arts

This conference will look at the relationship between literature and art, specifically visual artists who incorporate literary sources into their work. We are interested in how these interventions put pressure on the practice of art history, and how they provoke a reconsideration of methodologies of visual analysis. Thinking with, for example, the art of Elaine Reichek and Nancy Spero, we would also like to consider the place of citational practices within the broader context of postmodernism.

Rethinking practices of interconnection in a century of crisis

Since Max Weber described the state of the world as disenchanted in 1919, twentieth century critics from the Frankfurt School to the Postmodern philosophers shared the opinion that modern acceleration brings human suffering.

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En français à la suite de la version en anglais

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“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
― Plato

TURBA invites submissions engaging with any tradition, genre, community, culture, discipline, artistic expression, or aesthetic in the live arts. The journal is particularly interested in featuring compelling, experimental, politically engaged, and transformative content that fosters critique and debate, expands knowledge, and provides socio-cultural and historical context for the evolving practices of live arts curation.

The exhibition focuses on the art works called Sing-Song-Signs by Warja Lavater and on her Folded Stories. The artist devised a picture language in her arists’ books William Tell (1962), Little Red Riding Hood (1960) and Leidenschaft und Vernunft (Sense and Sensibility, 1961) and went on to explore this technique further in various other media and artworks. She achieved international renown with William Tell, co-published by the Museum of Modern Art in 1962. 

Over the four week course with award winning illustrator Erin Ellis you'll create enough bird drawings to fill the trees and sky!

Inspired by bird artwork in Morven's latest exhibition, In Nature's Realm, The Art of Gerard Rutgers Hardenbergh, award-winning illustrator Erin Ellis teaches how to capture the form and feeling of the beautiful birds living in New Jersey.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY FEBRUARY 19 TO PARTICIPATE

IN NATURE’S REALM: THE ART OF GERARD RUTGERS HARDENBERGH

OPENING FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In line with its mission of celebrating the art of New Jersey, Morven Museum & Garden is proud to present the first exhibition examining the work of Gerard Rutgers Hardenbergh (1856–1915). Born in New Brunswick, the great-great-grandson of Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (1736–1790), the first president of Queens College (Rutgers University), Hardenbergh was a self-taught artist and ornithologist.

Islam has played a crucial role for creativity over time. Muslim as well as non-Muslim artists have commented on the religion – its narratives, symbols, leading proponents, ideas, central rituals – in numerous art forms and for very different reasons.