by Sandy | Sep 19, 2016 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
“Stuart Davis (1892–1964) ranks as a preeminent figure in American modernism. With a long career that stretched from the early twentieth century well into the postwar era, he brought a distinctively American accent to international modernism.”
“With approximately 100 works, from the paintings of tobacco packages and household objects of the early 1920s to the work left on his easel at his death in 1964, In Full Swing will highlight Davis’s unique ability to assimilate the imagery of popular culture, the aesthetics of advertising, the lessons of Cubism, and the sounds and rhythms of jazz into works that hum with intelligence and energy.“
“In Full Swing: The Art of Stuart Davis”
Until September 25, 2016
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC 10014
(Image: “Fin”, 1962–64. Casein and masking tape on canvas)
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by Sandy | Aug 3, 2016 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Dallas Museum of Art offers 140 photographs by Irving Penn, (1917–2009), the first retrospective in twenty years.
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty showcases “one of the best-known American photographers of the 20th century. In a career that spanned almost seventy years, Penn worked on professional and artistic projects across multiple genres. He was a master of both black-and-white and color photography, and he was key to the revival of platinum printing in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty – Until August 14, 2016
DMA / Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood, Dallas, Texas
(Image: Irving Penn, “Sitting Enga Woman”))
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by Sandy | Jul 21, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Art Institute of Chicago:
“What is American art? That is a question the country’s artists asked and answered in myriad ways during the decade spanning the economic crash of 1929 through America’s entry into World War II. With economic downturn at home and the rising threat of fascism abroad, artists of the time applied their individualized visions of the nation to rethinking modernism. This exhibition brings together 50 works by some of the foremost artists of the era—including Aaron Douglas, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Grant Wood—to examine the landscape of the United States during the Great Depression and the many avenues artists explored as they sought to forge a new national art and identity.”
America After The Fall: Painting In The 1930s
Thru September 18, 2016
AIC / The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Il
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by Sandy | Jul 16, 2016 | Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art is showcasing work by musician Bob Dylan until July 31, 2016.
“In a suite of paintings, Bob Dylan presents a distinctive vision of New Orleans, a city for which he has well-known affection. As he wrote in Chronicles, the first volume of his autobiography, “There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. There’s a thousand different angles at any moment…No action seems inappropriate here. The city is one very long poem.”
Bob Dylan: The New Orleans Series
New Orleans Museum of Art / NOMA
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
(Image: “Rampart Street Courtyard”)
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by Sandy | Jul 16, 2016 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which debuted in 1935, has undergone extensive renovations since 2013. The grand re opening happened on Saturday, May 14, 2016. One of the exhibitions on view is the “The Campaign for Art”.
“Among the Painting and Sculpture highlights are two key paintings by Jackson Pollock, important works by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and an entire gallery dedicated to Joseph Beuys. A space devoted to the late work of Diane Arbus showcases a major gift to the Photography department. Media Arts features significant historic pieces by performance and video pioneers Ant Farm, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Nam June Paik…”
“The Campaign for Art”
Thru September 18, 2016
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA
(Image: Richard Diebenkorn, “Coffee” 1959)
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