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2009 Stories by Jessica Baran

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published April 1, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Relics of a Glorious Past: Imperial Russian Artifacts from the Collection of Dr. James F.... More >>

• Featured Review: Paul Shank: Paintings and Works on Paper: 1964-2008

  published April 1, 2009

  Paul Shank: Paintings and Works on Paper: 1964-2008 This St. Louis-based artist's retrospective appears like a survey of key period... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published March 25, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Damon Freed: Calm, Cool, Coherent Reviewed in More >>

• Featured Review: Damon Freed: Calm, Cool, Coherent

  published March 25, 2009

  Damon Freed: Calm, Cool, Coherent This series of hard-edged abstract paintings draws its color, texture and tenor from the Missouri... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published March 18, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Louis Cameron: Heineken Reviewed in More >>

• Featured Review: Louis Cameron: Heineken

  published March 18, 2009

  Louis Cameron: Heineken This digital video loop — the latest installment in the Saint Louis Art Museum's New Media Series —... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published March 11, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Cindy Tower: Riding the Rubble Down This solo show of predominantly large-scale plein air paintings of... More >>

• Featured Review: Good Friday

  published March 11, 2009

  Good Friday The second of two group exhibitions celebrating the 15th anniversary of Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary... More >>

• Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

  published March 4, 2009

  Newly Reviewed As I Only Can...Belong Reviewed in More >>

• Featured Review: As I Only Can...Belong

  published March 4, 2009

  As I Only Can...Belong In a collection of untitled installations, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale professor Alex Lopez creates... More >>

• Everything Eero: The Kemper celebrates Saarinen

  published February 25, 2009

  Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future is a traveling exhibition that comprehensively surveys the work of this key midcentury architect, best... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules: Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  published February 25, 2009

  Ongoing All I Needed Was Everything St. Louis sculptor John Watson installs what appears like the bits and pieces of... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published February 18, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Tony Fitzpatrick: The City Etchings 1993-2003 More >>

• Featured Review: Tony Fitzpatrick: The City Etchings 1993-2003

  published February 18, 2009

  Tony Fitzpatrick: The City Etchings 1993-2003 This series of line renderings of imaginary cartoon icons haloed, Virgin of... More >>

• Now See Here: Kevin Harris Installation at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, February 6, 2009

  published Feb 09, 2009

  On Friday, February 6, Kevin Harris debuted Move, a trio of multimedia installations at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts. Entitled Exercise/Execution, the show's gauntlet-like centerpiece consisted o... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published February 11, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Claudio... More >>

• Featured Review: Claudio Bravo: A Bestiary

  published February 11, 2009

  Claudio Bravo: A Bestiary A sought-after society portraitist living in Madrid in the late '60s, Bravo traded the bourgeois good life for... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published February 4, 2009

  Newly Reviewed More >>

• Featured Review: Gedi Sibony: My Arms Are Tied Behind My Other Arms

  published February 4, 2009

  Gedi Sibony: My Arms Are Tied Behind My Other Arms Reusing discarded carpet, Sheetrock, brown-taped drop cloths, and freighting crates... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published January 28, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Bad Moon Rising... More >>

• Featured Review: Bad Moon Rising

  published January 28, 2009

  Bad Moon Rising 3 A cacophony of rage and ruin, this traveling group show takes a laundry list of individual work and... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published January 21, 2009

  Newly Reviewed Fresh Paint St. Louis artist Kevin McCoy organized five "street-inspired" cohorts — Brooklyn, James... More >>

• Featured Review: Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer

  published January 21, 2009

  Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer This exhibition of canonical canvases of slain martyrs, pious virgins and other... More >>

• St. Louis Art Capsules

  published January 14, 2009

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• InterActive: New Technologies in Contemporary Architecture

  published January 14, 2009

  Jasmin Aber, coordinator of UC Berkeley's Institute of Urban Design and Regional Development & Center for Global Metropolitan Studies,... More >>