REVIEW BE OF LOVE AND OTHER STORIES: CONTEMPORARY HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION NEWPORT ART MUSEUM 76 BELLEVUE AVENUE NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND By Suzanne Volmer Newport Art Museum curator Francine Weiss chose “be of love and other stories” as the exhibition title for the current show perhaps to rec- ognize that love of art takes passion. With abundant variety, “Contemporary Highlights of the Permanent Collection” flow throughout the first and second floors of the museum’s Griswold House. The phrase “be of love” comes from an e.e.cummings poem and the words appear in a serigraph in the show by Corita Kent. This print anchors the exhi- bition for Weiss, who was delighted to learn that something by Kent was in the museum’s collection. Weiss had been impressed by the Harvard Art Museums’ exhibit “Corita Kent and the Language of Pop” in 2015. Her … [Read more...] about Love in the Air at Newport: A Sophisticated Smorgasbord