“The Met Breuer presents a selection of some fifty works…paintings by artists of the school of Paris, a brilliant group of erotic and evocative watercolors, drawings, and prints by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso, whose subjects, except for a handful, are nudes.”“The exhibition is the first time these works have been shown together…”
Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso
Until October 18, 2018
The MET / Breuer
945 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10021
Born in the Bronx (so was I), parents of Caribbean descent (Antigua, so am I) educated at Cooper Union, (no, not I). But, more importantly, Mr Bryan’s use of color immediately caught my eye.
Love it!
“Painter and Poet: the Art of Ashley Bryan is the first major art museum exhibition in Maine for the award-winning 95-year-old artist and Little Cranberry Island resident, a pioneer of African and African American representation in the children’s book medium, who has published more than 50 titles since his first collection of poems in 1967.”
Painter and Poet: the Art of Ashley Bryan
Until November 25, 2018
PMA / Portland Museum of Art
Seven Congress Square in Portland, ME
(Image: “The birds’ colors were mirrored in the waters,” circa 2002, from “Beautiful Blackbird,” collage of cut colored paper on paper)
“P.S. Art is an annual celebration of achievement in the arts in New York City public schools. This juried exhibition of the work of talented young artists showcases the creativity of 123 prekindergarten through grade twelve students from all five boroughs, including students from District 75, a citywide district serving students with disabilities. The exhibition consists of paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, mixed-media works, collages, and drawings. Each work of art demonstrates personal expression, an imaginative use of media, the results of close observation, and an understanding of artistic processes.”
P.S. Art 2018: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids
Until October 21, 2018
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
(Image: Leeann Beckford (Age 10, Grade 4). The Forest, 2018. Mixed-media collage)
Examples of creative longevity are on view at The Museum of Modern Art with an exhibition called “The Long Run”. Over 100 works by artists that continued working after age 45 are highlighted.
“All the artists in this presentation—drawn entirely from MoMA’s collection—are united by a ceaseless desire to make meaningful work, year after year, across decades. They include Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Melvin Edwards, Gego, Philip Guston, David Hammons, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Helen Levitt, Elizabeth Murray, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella, and many others.”
(Until November 4, 2018)
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY
(Image: Georgia O’Keeffe. Evening Star)
The San Francisco Musem of Modern Art treats us to over 70 pieces from Surrealist artist Rene Magritte, 1898 – 1967.
“This exhibition, the first to look exclusively at Magritte’s late career, examines his most important bodies of work from the 1940s through the 1960s, and shows how they marked a fundamental shift in painting from Modernism to our own time…the works reveal Magritte as an artist acutely attuned to the paradoxes at work within reality, and an enduring champion of the role of mystery in life and art. “
René Magritte: The Fifth Season
Until October 28, 2018
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA
(Image: Rene Magritte – “L’heureux donateur” (The happy donor) 1966; Belgium)