<h3><strong>Welcome to the blog for <em>Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein</em></strong></h3>
<h5><strong>Vanja Malloy, Curator of American Art, Mead Art Museum</strong></h5>
<p>During the Mead’s presentation of <em style="color: #505061; font-family: setimo, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.015em;">Dimensionism</em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, this site will feature weekly postings that examine different facets of the exhibition. Topics will include the design of the show, the public programs, and the art-science dialogue that informed the publication that gives the exhibition its name: the 1936 Dimensionist Manifesto. Arguing that art should respond to the scientific advancements of the day, this little-known manifesto was endorsed by some of the best-known artists of the twentieth century, including Marcel Duchamp, Sonia Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Calder, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In one way or another, I’ve been thinking about Dimensionism for about a decade now. It started with my doctoral research and began to formulate itself as an exhibition after I came to the Mead. It was here that I wonder about how the story of Dimensionism could look as an exhibition and how this story could transform the way we tell the history of modern art, and more generally the relationship between art and science. With its liberal arts mission, Amherst College was an ideal stage for this project. Creating dialogue between the arts and sciences on campus draw into focus questions about how art and science can learn from each other, and more fundamentally, what we gain by thinking more fluidly across disciplines, beyond our own areas of specialty. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The excitement around this new narrative of modern art and the encouragement of the Mead’s director, David E. Little, resulted in a national tour of </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dimensionism</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">! The show’s first venue was at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and we are thrilled it has now come to its home institution at the Mead, after which it will travel to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I hope that this blog will allow you to learn more about the story of Dimensionism and encourage you to come see the exhibition and participate in related programming at the Mead. Most of all, I hope </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the ripple effects of </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dimensionism</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> introduce new artists to the canon, and offer new ways of thinking about the artists we thought we already knew.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This exhibition is made possible with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.</span></p>
<p><span class="caption"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image Caption: Helen Lundeberg, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Microcosm and Macrocosm</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 1937. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. (M.2003.50). © The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation. Digital Image © 2018 Museum Associates / LACMA. Licensed by Art Resource, NY. </span></span></p>