by Sandy | Mar 30, 2015 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Represent: 200 Years of African American Art highlights selections from the Museum’s exceptional holdings of African American art and celebrates the publication of a catalogue examining the breadth of these noteworthy collections. With work by renowned artists such as Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, and Carrie Mae Weems, the exhibition showcases a range of subjects, styles, mediums, and traditions.”
“Represent: 200 Years of African American Art”
Until April 5, 2015
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
(Image: James Baldwin, 1963 – Beauford Delaney, 1901 – 1979)
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by Sandy | Feb 9, 2015 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“With the advent of Modernism in the 20th century, line became its own definitive subject for artists, who no longer used it merely for representational purposes. Line: Making the Mark presents examples created since that historic shift by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Sol LeWitt, and Barnett Newma. The exhibition explores the sundry ways that artists are making marks, whether directly or indirectly. Artists may press pencil directly to paper or brush ink right onto a surface…”
“Line: Making the Mark”
Museum of Fine Arts Houston / MFAH, Until March 22, 2015
(Image: Jasper Johns, “Cicada”, 1979)
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by Sandy | Jan 26, 2015 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Detroit Institute of Arts presents ground breaking artists from the late 19th century. “The “extraordinary artists” in this exhibition are a “who’s who” of late 19th-century figures who moved art from its traditional academic moorings into the modern era… Edgar Degas’ bathers, dancers, and jockeys; Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s portraits of his family and celebrities; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s stage performers; Paul Cézanne’s bathers; and Pierre Bonnard’s and Edouard Vuillard’s intimate interior and city life scenes are among the featured works. Other artists included are Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Mary Cassatt, and Camille Pissarro.”
Ordinary People by Extraordinary Artists: Works on Paper by Degas, Renoir and Friends
Until March 29, 2015
Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan
(Image: “Berthe Marisot”, etching, 1872, Manet)
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by Sandy | Dec 22, 2014 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s “Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River” explores Claude Monet’s abiding fascination with the Seine by tracing his life along the iconic French waterway. This beautiful exhibition reunites more than 50 masterworks from collections around the world to present Monet’s most famous series of paintings.”
“Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River”
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Until February 1, 2015
(Image: Ships Riding on the Seine at Rouen, 1872)
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by Sandy | Dec 8, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s “Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art“ explores the ways contemporary artists use Ebony and Jet as a resource and as inspiration in their practices. “
“…Speaking of People features over thirty works by a multi-generational, interdisciplinary group of sixteen artists… includes photography, painting, sculpture and sound works that will occupy the Studio Museum’s Main galleries and Project Space. Artists in the exhibition: Noel Anderson, Jeremy Okai Davis, Godfried Donkor, Ellen Gallagher, Theaster Gates, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Hartt, Leslie Hewitt, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Ayanah Moor, Lorna Simpson, Martine Syms, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas and Purvis Young.”
“Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art”
Until March 8, 2015
The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, NYC
(Image: “Hare”, Ellen Gallagher, 2013 -Ink, watercolor, oil, pencil and cut paper on paper)
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by Sandy | Nov 5, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Museum of Modern Art has a current exhibition of prints and posters from 19th century artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901).
“A cultural nexus, he connected artists, performers, authors, intellectuals, and society figures of his day, creating a bridge between the brothels and society salons of the moment. His work allows entry into many facets of Parisian life, from politics to visual culture and the rise of popular entertainment in the form of cabarets and café-concerts. This exhibition, drawn almost exclusively from The Museum of Modern Art’s stellar collection of posters, lithographs, printed ephemera, and illustrated books, is the first MoMA exhibition in 30 years dedicated solely to Lautrec, and features over 100 examples of the best-known works created during the apex of his career.“
“The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters”
Until March 22, 2015
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY
(Image: Jane Avril, 1899, Toulouse-Lautrec, Lithograph)
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