Butler Institute of American Art Today I visited only one site, but it is an important one: The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. This museum is the premier institutional collector of new media artwork in the country. In addition to the new media work, the museum also has a through collection of American Art from 1900 and later. This museum is what I like small art museums to be, deep and specialized. The traditional painting is organized by theme. Many of them rotate. When I was there, they had a show on marine painting over time. It starts with traditional seascapes, ending up with work so abstract it’s hard to recognize as a picture of waves. Another show was on geometric abstraction. It combined color field painting from the ea
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