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For the first time ever, Sullivan Goss painted the walls for a new exhibition that I put together called THE LAST NEW CENTURY: American Art from 1880-1920. Some people will see the show and will complain that the work actually dates from between 1878 and “c. 1920s” (read: 1920-1925), but these are people who enjoy finding fault. I salute these people. The world needs more critics.

Whether the exhibition really helps meet its mandate to explore the aesthetic and intellectual upheaval that came with the turn of the last new century, I don’t know. I will say that I am enormously enamored by the American Barbizon wall as well as the Symbolist wall.

The new exhibition design really helped me appreciate an older aesthetic. The rooms invite intimacy and seem to call for a leisurely glass of absinthe and a bit of poetry. Come on baby, let’s party like it’s 1899…

 

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