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Friday, March 25, 2005
Welcome to Art a la Carte. I'm Journal-World arts editor Mindie Paget.
Call it the spring break lull. There's not a lot going on this week in Lawrence, which makes it a perfect time to visit the Spencer Museum of Art.
A survey of photographic history from 1840 to the present is laid out in an exhibition called "Daguerreotype to Digital." More than 50 shots from the museum's collection of 4,000 photographs are on view, featuring such notable shutterbugs as Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray and Diane Arbus.
In the White Gallery, a quintet of Kansas University faculty artists explore the topic of transitions. Each artist presents works in a different medium and interprets change in a different way. Elissa Armstrong's kitschy clay animal figurines, for example, represent a subversion of traditional "fine" ceramics.
And in the South Balcony, a selection of books and works on paper by English-born painter and writer Brion Gysin is on view. Gysin is best known as the inventor of the "cut-up" technique that he pioneered with beat writer William S. Burroughs and as the inventor of the hallucination-inducing "Dream Machine." His early works have much in common with the art of the surrealists.
I'm Mindie Paget with Art a la Carte.
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