Boston Museum of Fine Arts – thru December 7, 2008
“After the Hurricane”, Bahamas, 1899
An extensive collection of work by Winslow Homer, (1836-1910), is on display at the Boston Museum. The exhibit includes paintings, water colors, illustrations (from “Harper’s Weekly” – a political magazine published from 1857 to 1916) and some etchings.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA – (617) 267-9300
“The Persistence of Memory” (1931), will return to MoMA as part of an event featuring the art of Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) as both painter and filmmaker – especially with Spanish director Luis Bunuel , (1900 – 1983).
Dali’s paintings, drawings, movie scripts will all be used to prove the strong connection and influence that film played in his work.
BTW: The museum catalog cover is the famous “razor in eyeball” scene from Un Chien Andalou , 1929 – one of several Dali/Bunuel surrealist film collaborations.
The Museum of Modern Art, The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor, 11 West 53 Street, NYC – (212) 708-9400
British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851) will have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this summer. Labeled an “English Romantic”, he worked in both oil and watercolor and painted primarily landscapes/seascapes. He hasn’t been on view in the U.S. for more than 40 years.
“Shipwreck of the Minotaur”, oil on canvas, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
(Looking at the above, you can tell why Turner is referred to as “the painter of light”. Awesome)
J.M.W.Turner * July 1 – Sept 21, 2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
“Chihuly at the de Young” * Thru 9/28/08
The de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA presents Dale Chihuly – American glass artist. You will see beautiful shapes, daring configurations, all in glorious color. Very dramatic.
His explanation of why people like his work, “People like to look at glass; it’s like looking at light”.
Born in Tacoma, WA, Chihuly’s pieces are prized and can be found in more than 200 museums across the world – and he will do a chandelier for someone’s mcMansion!
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara
Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA
Phone: 415.750.3600
Berthe Morisot, MaryCassatt, Eva Gonzales, Marie Bracquemond are labeled the “forgotten women” of the artist world in this exhibit. These 4 female impressionists will have their work shown together for the first time in the U.S. at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco , CA .
Mary Cassatt, American (1844-1926) Summertime, c. 1894
The Legion of Honor – June 21 – September 21, 2008
Lincoln Park , 34th Avenue and Clement Street
San Francisco , CA – 415.750.3600
http://www.famsf.org/legion/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=794
“I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject that I know best.”
(Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, 1925)
45 of Frida Kahlo’s paintings, from 1930 to 1954, will be shown starting June 14 – Sept. 28,2008 mostly self portraits, but also a few rarely seen still lifes. A collection of family photos, with artist husband Diego Rivera, will also be on display.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA
415.357.4000