Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933–1957 an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, October 10, 2015–January 24, 2016; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 21–May 14, 2016; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, September 17, 2016–January 1, 2017. Catalog of the exhibition by Helen Molesworth with Ruth Erickson. Institute of Contemporary Art/Yale University Press, 400 pp., $75.00
Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries an exhibition at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, August 28, 2015–January 3, 2016. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Vanja Malloy. Amherst College Press, 99 pp., $20.00 (paper)
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Of the self-styled “progressive” liberal arts colleges founded between the world wars—including Bennington and Sarah Lawrence, Goddard and a reconceived Antioch—Black Mountain College was among the most distinctive, and…
