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| Audrey Hepburn, 1956, photograph, gelatin
silver print, Yousuf Karsh, Canadian, born Turkish Armenia,
1908-2002, Gift of Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh, © Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston. |
Eminent photographer Yousuf Karsh made a
career photographing the world’s most famous actors, artists, and statesmen. During
his career he held 15,312 sittings, produced more than 150,000
negatives including the most famous men and women of the twentieth
century. This great portraitist’s work features iconic
images of Albert Einstein, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Ernest
Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Mother Teresa, just to name a few.
Admission is free for museum members, $10 for non-members. This
exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Clown Stinkubus, 1997, Stained Glass
Judith Schaechter (American, born 1961).
Partial and promised gift, Adele and Leonard Leight Collection, 1998.22.12 |
Fifty Years of Contemporary Glass: Art, Craft, or Otherwise? will
feature highlights from the Adele and Leonard Leight Collection,
one of the nation’s most comprehensive collections of contemporary
glass, as well as supplements from other sources. Created around
1960, the international studio glass movement will, in 2010, move
past the half-century mark. Fifty Years of Contemporary Glass:
Art, Craft, or Otherwise? will look at the movement’s development
from both an historical and a critical perspective. This exhibition
will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Louisville Visual Arts
Festival. Admission is free.
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