Harlem Renaissance Art at The MET!

A current presentation at The MET, Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, is  the “first art museum survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the exhibition establishes the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern Black subject as central to the development of international modern art.”

“Featured artists include Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring.”

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC

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Faith Ringgold, R.I.P. * American Artist ~ 1930 – 2024

“Faith Ringgold: American People”  was her West Coast debut at the de Young museum in San Francisco, CA November 2022.

“Bringing together fifty years of work, this is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Faith Ringgold’s groundbreaking vision…”

“From creating some of the most indelible artworks of the civil rights era to challenging accepted hierarchies of art versus craft through her experimental story quilts, Faith Ringgold’s body of work bears witness to the complexity of the American experience.”

Faith Ringgold: American People

de Young Museum: Golden Gate Park \ 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive,  SF, CA

(Image: Faith Ringgold, pictured before her 1997 painting, “The Flag Is Bleeding #2”)

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Women & Art at the Modern, Ft. Worth, TX

In a salute to Women’s History month, below is a repeat of one of last year’s art tributes:

A coiled Bronze Woman! in the gallery  of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’ I love it! I want this in my home:

“The Seated III” Wangechi Mutu, 2019
Bronze (82 7/8 × 37 3/4 × 33 3/4 inches)

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presented “Women Painting Women” – an “exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This presentation includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. International in scope, Women Painting Women recognizes female perspectives that have been underrepresented in the history of postwar figuration.”

Women Painting Women 

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

3200 Darnell Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
817.738.9215

*The Artists:

Rita Ackermann
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Emma Amos
María Berrío
Louise Bonnet
Lisa Brice
Joan Brown
Jordan Casteel
Somaya Critchlow
Kim Dingle
Marlene Dumas
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Nicole Eisenman
Tracey Emin
Natalie Frank

Hope Gangloff
Eunice Golden
Jenna Gribbon
Alex Heilbron
Ania Hobson
Luchita Hurtado
Chantal Joffe
Hayv Kahraman
Maria Lassnig
Christiane Lyons
Danielle Mckinney
Marilyn Minter
Alice Neel
Elizabeth Peyton
Paula Rego

Faith Ringgold Deborah Roberts
Susan Rothenberg
Jenny Saville
Dana Schutz
Joan Semmel
Amy Sherald
Lorna Simpson
Arpita Singh
Sylvia Sleigh
Apolonia Sokol
May Stevens
Claire Tabouret
Mickalene Thomas
Nicola Tyson
Lisa Yuskavage

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Black Artists of Oregon * Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum has the work of 69 Black artists on view until March 17, 2024.

“Through the narrative flow of the exhibition, visitors will experience work by Black artists across decades and generations. Particular attention is given to the works of Black artists who were producing work during the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s, ’70s, and early ’80s…”

Some of the 69 artists included in the presentation:

manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991)

damali ayo (b. 1972)

Natalie Ball (b. 1980)

J.S. Bell (1882-1925)

Harrison Branch (b. 1947)

Nikesha Breeze (b. 1979)

Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918)

Richard Brown (b. 1939)

Black Artists of Oregon

Portland Art Museum

Until Mar 17, 2024

1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR

(Image: Isaka Shamsud-Din, “Rock of Ages”, 1976)

 

Henry Taylor at The Whitney, NYC

“For more than thirty years, the Los Angeles–based artist Henry Taylor (b. 1958) has portrayed people from widely different backgrounds—family members, friends, neighbors, celebrities, politicians, and strangers—with a mixture of raw immediacy and tenderness. His improvisational approach to artmaking is hinted at in this exhibition’s title, Henry Taylor: B Side, which refers to the side of a record album that often contains lesser-known, more experimental songs. “

Henry Taylor: B Side

Oct 4, 2023–Jan 28, 2024

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC

 

 

 

“Vida Americana” At The Whitney

“Vida Americana” At The Whitney

 

The Whitney Museum, NYC, presents: “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945”.

“Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life… It galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.”

The exhibition contains about 200 works by 60 Mexican and American artists, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC

(Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937)

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