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David Park Curry, senior curator of Decorative Arts, American Painting & Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art, specializes in American and European art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Currently charged with reinstalling Baltimore’s American wing, he is particularly interested in exploring cultural crossroads where art, decoration, and commerce intersect. Dr. Curry holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University. He has lectured widely in the United States and England, and published on Homer, Whistler, Sargent, American Impressionism and Realism, folk art, Victorian architecture, world fairs, and period framing. His most recent monograph, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, was published in 2004. That year, his Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited (1989), was reprinted. In 2010 he joined colleagues at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to publish their extensive collection of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts – many of the pieces acquired during his fifteen-year tenure. Recently, his essay, “Much in Little Space: Whistler’s White and Yellow Exhibition as an Aesthetic Movement Bellwether,” appeared in The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900, a traveling exhibition of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts that opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and is currently on view at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. In 2012, the National Gallery in Washington will publish his essay, “Sunday in the Park with George Bellows” for their Bellows retrospective. Dr. Curry is currently working on a contextual study of the Hayes presidential china as well as a short book on William Merritt Chase’s still life paintings of fish.
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Posted April 11, 2012
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11:35 AM (EST)
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things."
Not quite a century after publication of The Savoy Cocktail Book (London, 1933), contemporary mixologists in trendy bars and speakeasies have greatly expanded the available range of recherché refreshment. New York's glamorous Flatiron Lounge over on West 19th...
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Posted February 2, 2012
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11:49 AM (EST)
From the age of five (which is as far back as I can recollect) I have gravitated towards objects with wheels. Remember getting your first bike? Suddenly the universe expands from around the block to across the town. That quantum leap in personal freedom is hard to duplicate. Your first...
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Posted December 27, 2011
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10:21 AM (EST)
Shop shop shop. Ship ship ship. I am not talking about CyberMonday here.
Rather, in a time of international economic turmoil I find comfort in recalling the "Old China Trade." It helped rejuvenate a flailing post-Revolutionary American economy after the British had closed the fledgling Republic out of markets across...
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Posted December 1, 2011
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06:19 PM (EST)
?4U -- The other day, having narrowly dodged a texting driver on my way to work, I found myself ruminating in general about swift, effective communication through limited means (above and beyond certain rude gestures used in heavy traffic). Do you suppose that those who text have ever given any...
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Posted October 19, 2011
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03:54 PM (EST)
Traveled some in Great Britain? If so, you've probably encountered the toast rack, a small oblong stand with a serried rank of open-sided partitions between which pieces of toast can be stood upright, ensuring that they are stone cold by the time they reach you. As a culinary utensil, toast...
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Posted September 19, 2011
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10:55 AM (EST)
I've never had an au pair to lend a helping hand at home, and these days I'm short-staffed at work, like just about every other art museum curator I know. All the more reason to create visual lifts in the galleries I share with our diverse public here at the...
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