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Jonathan Green: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Morris Museum of Art 1 Tenth Street, Augusta
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Style and Attitude: Abstract Art in the South
This exhibition examines abstraction and abstract expressionism—the dominant mode of artistic expression in post–World War II America—through a Southern lens. Few art movements are as closely associated with a specific time and place as abstract expressionism is with New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. It was the first American movement to achieve international recognition, and it put New York…
Jonathan Green: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Born and raised in the South Carolina low country, Jonathan Green graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1982 and has sustained a very successful career ever since. His paintings can be found in major museum, corporate, and private collections around the world. He is represented in the Morris Museum’s permanent collection by nearly forty works…
Local Color: Photography in the South
Local Color, an exhibition of more than forty works drawn from the Morris Museum’s permanent collection, explores the special role that color photography has played in the history of Southern photography since it was first popularized by William Christenberry and William Eggleston. In addition to those pioneers, the exhibition features work by John Baeder, William Greiner, Birney Imes, Jim McGuire, and Meryl Truett, to…
Folk Art in the South: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Folk art—often characterized as outsider, visionary, or self-taught—varies widely in medium and subject matter. The range of descriptive terms applied to it does little to describe the imaginative ways in which folk artists express deeply personal ideas in visual language. They employ readily accessible materials, including found objects, to produce their work, putting mundane materials to fresh and ingenious uses.…
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Film on Friday: In Cold Blood (1967)
Film on Friday: In Cold Blood (1967)
Adapted from Truman Capote’s celebrated nonfiction novel, this grim drama stars Robert Blake and Scott Wilson as real-life murderers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock and John Forsythe as investigator Alvin Dewey. Shot in black-and-white and told in a kind of cinéma vérité style, the story concerns the ruthless murder of the Clutter family, the manhunt that follows, and the trial…
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