by Sandy | Jan 11, 2016 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Frank Stella (b. 1936) is one of the most important living American artists. This retrospective is the most comprehensive presentation of Stella’s career to date, showcasing his prolific output from the mid-1950s to the present through approximately 100 works, including paintings, reliefs, maquettes, sculptures, and drawings.”
Frank Stella: A Retrospective – Until February 7, 2016
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
Image: “The Whiteness of the Whale” – Frank Stella (b.1936)
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by Sandy | Jan 2, 2016 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Archibald John Motley Jr. (1891–1981) was a bold and highly original modernist and one of the great visual chroniclers of twentieth-century American life…he also developed and elucidated his own archetypes of place and people in this country, albeit unapologetically based on African American subject matter. As the work on view in Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist eloquently attests…the artist created a far more daring visual language than many of his contemporaries, fusing vivid narrative with dizzying spatial distortion and jarring hues to produce striking settings for characters of diverse racial backgrounds and social classes.”
“Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist” Until January 17, 2016
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
(Image:Archibald J. Motley, “Tongues (Holy Rollers)”, 1929)
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by Sandy | Nov 30, 2015 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting brings together the work of nine Aboriginal Australian artists: Paddy Bedford, Janangoo Butcher Cherel, Tommy Mitchell, Ngarra, Boxer Milner Tjampitjin, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Tjumpo Tjapanangvka, Billy Joongoorra Thomas, and Prince of Wales (Midpul). “
“This exhibition highlights the distinctive vocabularies and modes of gestural expression that define each of these artist’s paintings and works on paper. Relating to cultural systems, religious beliefs, and social structures, these intricate works are at once distinctly grounded in the context of Aboriginal life and profoundly resonant with abstract painting of the 20th and 21st centuries.”
“No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting”
Until January 3, 2016
Perez Art Museum Miami / PAMM
1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL
(Image: “Travels of the Black Snake”, 2004, Billy Joongoora Thomas)
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by Sandy | Nov 26, 2015 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“The first survey of American still life in three decades, Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life features 130 oil paintings, watercolors, and works in other media representing the finest accomplishments in the genre from its beginnings in the late 1700s to the Pop Art era of the 1960s…
Still life is generally an art of intimacy, intended for display in homes and other private settings. From the perfect serenity of tabletop compositions created by Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825), to the trompe l’oeil illusions of William Michael Harnett (1848–1892), to the explosive floral abstractions of Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952), still lifes provoke the senses and reward close looking. The exhibition will employ theatrical displays and interactive technologies to encourage substantive, personal encounters with the works. “
“Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life”
Until January 10, 2016
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
(Image: “Covered Peaches”. Raphaelle Peale, 1774-1825)
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by Sandy | Oct 25, 2015 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“American and European Art From the 1920s and 1930s”:
“Bounded by the First World War, the period saw the birth of Jazz, widespread use of the automobile, voting rights for women, as well as the hardships of the Great Depression and the destructive slide into political conflict. Throughout these dramatic times, during both the highs and the lows, artists responded to the world in which they lived in dramatic fashion.”
Some of the artists included are Pablo Picasso, Everett Shinn, André Derain, Reginald Marsh, Isabel Bishop, George Grosz.
“American and European Art From the 1920s and 1930s”
Until November 15, 2015 – Phoenix Art Museum
1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona
(Image: Kees Van Dongen, Lady with Beads, 1923)
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by Sandy | Aug 17, 2015 | Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
“In 1948, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) became the first African American photographer to be hired full time by LIFE magazine… In 1950, Parks returned to his hometown in Kansas to make a series of photographs meant to accompany an article that he planned to call “Back to Fort Scott” …focusing on the realities of life under segregation during the 1940s, but also relating to Parks’ own fascinating life story. “
“Back to Fort Scott”
Until September 13, 2015
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA
(Image: Mrs Jefferson, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1950)
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