Apr 16, 2015
Elizabeth Tufts Brown, associate registrar at Carnegie Museum of Art, discusses the extensive number of CoBrA artworks in the museum’s permanent collection. Leon Arkus, director of CMOA from 1968–1980, was a major advocate for this cadre of artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam. In “Art of the People: Pierre Alechinsky and the CoBrA Movement,” Nicole F. Scalissi writes that “CoBrA was an intense, if brief, coalition of radical artists and poets who were interested in recharging art with the sensual experience of the world.” You can read her full article on the CMOA Blog.