by Sandy | Dec 5, 2013 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Frick in NYC highlights work from a few Dutch masters until January 19, 2014. “The Frick Collection is the final American venue of a global tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Netherlands. While the prestigious Dutch museum undergoes an extensive two-year renovation, it is lending masterpieces that have not traveled in nearly thirty years. At the Frick, a selection of fifteen paintings includes the beloved Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) by Johannes Vermeer and Carel Fabritius’s exquisite Goldfinch (1654).”
Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting
The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street
New York, NY
by Sandy | Dec 2, 2013 | Artist, Exhibits, Museums, sculptor
Philadelphia Museum of Art highlights the work of this writer and sculptor. “Bringing together more than forty works from the United States and Europe, this exhibition examines Barbara Chase-Riboud’s artistic career, focusing primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures. Five works from that series—among them the Museum’s Malcolm X #3 of 1969—and five closely related sculptures are included. A group of drawings from the late 1960s and early 1970s made during the development of the Malcolm X series and roughly twenty of the artist’s Monument Drawings from 1996–97 are also on view. “
Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles
Philadelphia Museum of Art Until January 20, 2014
Image: “Malcolm X #3”, 1969 Barbara Chase-Riboud (Polished bronze, rayon, and cotton, 9 feet 10 inches × 3 feet 11 1/4 inches × 9 7/8 inches)
FYI – per WikiPedia: “A stele, also stela, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living — inscribed, carved in relief (bas-relief, sunken-relief, high-relief, and so forth), or painted onto the slab. It can also be used as a territorial marker to delineate land ownership.”
by Sandy | Nov 25, 2013 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Born in Alaska, moved to British Columbia as a child, Robert Charles Davidson is an artist of Haida Indian heritage. He “has been a pivotal figure in the Northwest Coast Native art renaissance since 1969, when he erected the first totem pole in his ancestral Massett village since the 1880s. For over 40 years he has mastered Haida art traditions by studying the great works of his great-grandfather Charles Edenshaw and others. More recently, Davidson has interjected his own interpretation of the old forms with forays into abstraction, explored in boldly minimalistic easel paintings, graphic works and sculpture, where images are pared to essential lines, elemental shapes and strong colors.
The exhibition will feature 45 paintings, sculptures and prints created since 2005, as well as key images from earlier in his career that show Davidson’s evolution toward an elemental language of form.“
Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse
Until February 16, 2014
Seattle Art Museum – SAM
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA
by Sandy | Oct 10, 2013 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Museums
The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938… “is the first to focus exclusively on the breakthrough Surrealist years of René Magritte, creator of some of the 20th century’s most extraordinary images. Beginning in 1926, when Magritte first aimed to create paintings that would, in his words, “challenge the real world,” and concluding in 1938—a historically and biographically significant moment just prior to the outbreak of World War II—the exhibition traces central strategies and themes from the most inventive and experimental period in the artist’s prolific career. “
Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
by Sandy | Aug 19, 2013 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits
The De Young Museum in San Francisco presents Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966
“During his years in Berkeley, Diebenkorn was deeply engaged with the unique setting of the Bay Area, saturating his works with color, light, and atmosphere. More than 130 paintings and drawings, beginning with the artist’s earlier abstract works and moving through his subsequent figurative phase, display his profound influence on postwar American art.”
Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966
Until September 29, 2013
De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, S.F.
by Sandy | Mar 10, 2013 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
“Sinister Pop presents an inventive take on the Museum’s rich and diverse holdings of Pop art from the movement’s inception in the early 1960s through its aftershocks a decade later. Although Pop art often calls to mind a celebration of postwar consumer culture, this exhibition focuses on Pop’s darker side, as it distorts and critiques the American dream. Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored.”
Some of the artists represented are Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol.
Sinister Pop
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
(Image – “Flags”, Jasper Johns)
The Frick in NYC highlights work from a few Dutch masters until January 19, 2014. “The Frick Collection is the final American venue of a global tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Netherlands. While the prestigious Dutch museum undergoes an extensive two-year renovation, it is lending masterpieces that have not traveled in nearly thirty years. At the Frick, a selection of fifteen paintings includes the beloved Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) by Johannes Vermeer and Carel Fabritius’s exquisite Goldfinch (1654).”
