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VAN GOGH AT NIGHT at MOMA and Joseph Cornell and More
at Hollis Taggart Gallery

Friday, November 21st, 8:30am-8pm
$100 (members $90)
refund date: November 7, 2008

Join fellow Museum members and friends for an art-filled day in New York. Our day begins at the Museum of Modern Art with a guided highlight tour of of MoMA’s remarkable collection followed by time for self-guided explorations of the exhibition Van Gogh at Night. Throughout his career, Van Gogh attempted the paradoxical task of representing night on canvas. He followed the Impressionists’ trend of "translating" visual light effects with various color combinations. This exhibition features over two dozen works of superlative quality (several of which have never been seen together) that presents new insight into Van Gogh's depictions of night landscapes, interior scenes, and the effects of both gaslight and natural light.

Lunch will be on your own, either at the cafes in MoMA or at one of the local eateries near the Museum. A list will be provided on the day of the trip.

In the afternoon, we will head uptown to the esteemed Hollis Taggart Gallery for a curator-led tour in the the special exhibition Image in the Box: From Cornell to Contemporary. The exhibition will display seven artists representing different approaches to box imagery ranging from the 1930s to the present and featuring the work of Joseph Cornell, Pierre Roy, Leo Rabkin, Lucas Samaras, Maureen McCabe (Museum Director Jeff Andersen’s wife), Elspeth Halvorsen, and Ted Victoria.

Cornell is often considered the archetypal creator of the modern box format in art, and his work will act as a historical point of reference and aesthetic background for the exhibition. His box constructions have become paradigms of the poetic, illustrating how the collection, juxtaposition, and interrelationship of diverse items can come to elicit emotions, sensory suggestions, and fragments of elusive tales. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the motif of the box filled with objects and imagery has become a useful device for many artists. A specialized offshoot of the assemblage, the artfully filled box has served a variety of narrative and formal functions. By literally creating a small, self-contained world within a box, artists have been able to variously emphasize the art object as an intimate stage on which highly personal stories can be told.

To register for this trip, click here to register online,
complete the Registration Form and fax it in,
or call the Museum at (860) 434-5542, ext. 111.