Showing posts with label Gross Clinic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gross Clinic. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Kevin Bacon Wants The Gross Clinic
to Stay in Philly???


Now there's one degree of separation between Bacon and Thomas Eakins' famous painting. I'm glad he's an art lover, but dang, what's up with people not wanting art to go to Arkansas???

Monday, November 20, 2006

Possible New Crystal Bridges Museum Acquisition
Generates Controversy Once More

Last time, New York didn't want to give up Asher Durand's Kindred Spirits painting to the new (will be completed in 2009) Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. Check out the articles on Philadelphia not wanting to give up Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic. What do you think? Is it just me, or do the writers have something against sending art/culture to Arkansas?

The painting in question....