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    In the late 1980s, when museums of contemporary art began to be founded throughout the world, Gertrude Stein’s oft-quoted, yet perhaps apocryphal comment to MoMA founding director Alfred H. Barr Jr. – “You can be a museum, or you can be modern, but you can’t be both” – came back to haunt us. Read more…
Image: Gertrude Stein’s apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris, 1920

    In the late 1980s, when museums of contemporary art began to be founded throughout the world, Gertrude Stein’s oft-quoted, yet perhaps apocryphal comment to MoMA founding director Alfred H. Barr Jr. – “You can be a museum, or you can be modern, but you can’t be both” – came back to haunt us. Read more

    Image: Gertrude Stein’s apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris, 1920

    Posted on Tuesday, February 5th 2013

    Happy Birthday to the one and only Gertrude Stein, born on this day in 1874!

Along with her brother Leo, Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond with enthusiasm to the artistic revolution in Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. The weekly salons she held in her Paris apartment became a magnet for European and American artists and writers alike, and her support of Matisse, Braque, Gris, and Picasso was evident in her many acquisitions of their work.  

Pictured here: Picasso’s Gertrude Stein, 1905-6
(via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

    Happy Birthday to the one and only Gertrude Stein, born on this day in 1874!

    Along with her brother Leo, Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond with enthusiasm to the artistic revolution in Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. The weekly salons she held in her Paris apartment became a magnet for European and American artists and writers alike, and her support of Matisse, Braque, Gris, and Picasso was evident in her many acquisitions of their work. 

    Pictured here: Picasso’s Gertrude Stein, 1905-6

    (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

    Posted on Friday, February 3rd 2012

    Source metmuseum.org

    For those of you who listen to NPR, you may have heard the Stein feature today on Morning Edition. With The Steins Collect now on view in Paris, Steinmania has spread across the globe! Listen to the full story here: For Gertrude Stein, Collecting Art Was A Family Affair : NPR
(On another note, how amazing is the above photo? It’s Matisse painting the infamous Portrait of Michael Stein, with Michael sitting in the background.)

    For those of you who listen to NPR, you may have heard the Stein feature today on Morning Edition. With The Steins Collect now on view in Paris, Steinmania has spread across the globe! Listen to the full story here: For Gertrude Stein, Collecting Art Was A Family Affair : NPR

    (On another note, how amazing is the above photo? It’s Matisse painting the infamous Portrait of Michael Stein, with Michael sitting in the background.)

    Posted on Thursday, November 10th 2011

    Source NPR

    Sad to see this piece get crated up and shipped off to the Grand Palais in Paris for the next installment of The Steins Collect.
artknowledge:

Henri Matisse - “Blue Nude”, 1907

    Sad to see this piece get crated up and shipped off to the Grand Palais in Paris for the next installment of The Steins Collect.

    artknowledge:

    Henri Matisse - “Blue Nude”, 1907

    Posted on Wednesday, September 7th 2011

    Reblogged from Art Knowledge News

    Goodbye Gertrude!

    The Steins Collect closes today, and this seems like the perfect quote to sum everything up with:

    mariposa-serendipia:

    “The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing”

    - Gertrude Stein

    Painting by Picasso

    Posted on Tuesday, September 6th 2011

    Reblogged from La Mariposa de Serendipia: Cracking the Chrysalis

    This is beyond awesome.

    zappagraham:

    DJ Spooky

    Rhythm Science

    “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso”

     DJ Spooky remixed Gertrude Stein’s “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso”. My professor showed this to us.

    Posted on Tuesday, September 6th 2011

    Reblogged from ZAPPA