by Sandy | Nov 21, 2024 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“The Whitney Museum of American Art … is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey (b. 1931, Rogers, Texas; d. 1989, New York, New York).”
The presentation, “Edges of Ailey consists of an immersive exhibition in the Museum’s 18,000 square-foot fifth-floor galleries—featuring works by more than eighty artists and revelatory archival material—and an ambitious suite of performances in the Museum’s third-floor theater, including AILEY in residence for one week each month during the exhibition.”
A few of the artists included: Jean Michel-Basquiat, Kara Walker, Elizabeth Catlett, Mickalene Thomas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Edges of Ailey
Through February 9, 2025.
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Carmen de Lavallade, by Geoffrey Holder 1976)
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by Sandy | Sep 3, 2024 | Art, Exhibits, Museums
The Boston Museum of Fine Art offers “Dalí: Disruption and Devotion”. The presentation of 30 painting and prints by Dali (1904–1989) and other artists like El Greco, Orazio Gentileschi, and Velázquez, enables “visitors to experience a unique take on one of the most celebrated avant-garde artists of the 20th century.”
“Dalí: Disruption and Devotion”
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Until December 1, 2024
by Sandy | Aug 8, 2024 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“This exhibition is the first major survey of Joan Brown (American, 1938–1990) in over 20 years, and offers a compelling look at the prolific career of a painter known for her large-scale, high-key portraits of family, animals, and herself.”
Joan Brown
Carnegie Museum of Art
by Sandy | Jul 14, 2024 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
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
*~* Until July 28, 2024 *~*
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
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by Sandy | Apr 15, 2024 | Artist, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
“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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by Sandy | Mar 19, 2024 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits
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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