by Sandy | Apr 20, 2016 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Seattle Art Museum presents: Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
“Kehinde Wiley is one of the leading American artists to emerge in the last decade and he has been ingeniously reworking the grand portraiture traditions. Since ancient times the portrait has been tied to the representation of power, and in European courts and churches, artists and their patrons developed a complex repository of postures and poses and refined a symbolic language… Wiley’s portraits are highly stylized and staged, and draw attention to the dialectic between a history of aristocratic representation and the portrait as a statement of power and the individual’s sense of empowerment.”
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Seattle Art Museum – Until May 8 2016
(Image: Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness (detail), 2013, Kehinde Wiley)
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by Sandy | Apr 6, 2016 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Vincent van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles is arguably the most famous chambre in the history of art. It also held special significance for the artist, who created three distinct paintings of this intimate space from 1888 to 1889. This exhibition—presented only at the Art Institute of Chicago—brings together all three versions of The Bedroom for the first time in North America, offering a pioneering and in-depth study of their making and meaning to Van Gogh in his relentless quest for home.”
“Van Gogh’s Bedrooms”
Through May 10, 2016
AIC / The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Il
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by Sandy | Apr 4, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Dancers, Exhibits, Museums
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, 1834–1917 “is best known as a painter and chronicler of the ballet, yet his work as a printmaker reveals the true extent of his restless experimentation. In the mid-1870s, Degas was introduced to the monotype process—drawing in ink on a metal plate that was then run through a press, typically resulting in a single print. Captivated by the monotype’s potential, he immersed in the technique with enormous enthusiasm, taking the medium to radical ends.“
“The exhibition includes approximately 120 rarely seen monotypes—along with some 50 related paintings, drawings, pastels, sketchbooks, and prints—that show Degas at his most modern, capturing the spirit of urban life…”
“Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty” Until July 24, 2016
The Museum of Modern Art / MoMA
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY
Image: “Three Ballet Dancers (Trois danseuses)”, 1878–80, Degas
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by Sandy | Feb 14, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums, Photograhy
The Art Institute of Chicago showcases the work of: “Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946) tirelessly promoted photography as a fine art. Through his own photographic work over the course of a half-century, the photographic journals he edited and published, and the New York galleries at which he organized exhibitions of photographs, paintings, and sculpture, Stieglitz showed photography to be an integral part of modern art in America. In a search for artistic ancestors, he looked intently at photography of the 19th century, most notably that of Julia Margaret Cameron and the Scottish duo David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Their work resonated for Pictorialism, a movement that valued painterly, handcrafted images, and these earlier photographs were exhibited and reprinted for new audiences.“
“Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century”
Until March. 27, 2016
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
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by Sandy | Jan 21, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits
“Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum”
Phrenological Head, Asa Ames, 1850, paint on wood
“Self-Taught Genius considers the shifting implications of a self-taught ideology in the United States, from a widely endorsed and deeply entrenched movement of self-education, to its current use to describe artists creating outside traditional frames of reference and canonical art history.”
“Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum”
New Orleans Museum of Art / NOMA
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
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by Sandy | Dec 22, 2015 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
“Mark Rothko: A Retrospective” at MFA Houston:
“Across a career spanning the most troubled years of the 20th century, Rothko (1903–1970) explored the tragic and the sublime, and his canvases remain a testament to the deep humanism he brought to modern painting. This definitive retrospective comprises more than 50 paintings that trace the artist’s full career arc, highlighting milestones in the development of his signature style.”
“Long recognized as among the foremost figures of the Abstract Expressionist vanguard, Mark Rothko embraced the possibility of beauty in pure abstraction with a painterly eloquence that gave a new voice to American art.”
Mark Rothko: A Retrospective
Until Jan 24, 2016
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Image: “No. 9”, 1948, Mark Rothko)
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