by Sandy | Oct 29, 2014 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Galleries, Museums
“Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is considered one of the twentieth century’s most important artists. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele is celebrated for his singular style of draftsmanship, unusual use of color, and physically raw, often sexually provocative depictions of his sitters. Schiele’s expressive style and controversial subject matter played an important role in the advancement of modernism in Europe.“ This is the first exhibition, approximately 125 paintings, drawings, at an American museum to focus exclusively on portraiture in Schiele’s work.
“Egon Schiele: Portraits” – Until January 19, 2015
Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art
104 E 86th St, at 5th Ave, NYC
(Image: Self Portrait, 1910)
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by Sandy | Oct 12, 2014 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Earthly Delights, “eight artists who share a belief in the critical power of beauty. Drawn primarily from the MCA’s permanent collection, and made between 1949 and 2006, the paintings, sculptures, and installations in this exhibition embrace the decorative in defiance of prevailing artistic trends. By reveling in pleasure, exploring private moments, and exuding sensuality, these works challenge the primacy of rationality and logic in modernism.”
The exhibit features work by, Balthus, Lynda Benglis, Carol Bove, Nick Cave, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lari Pittman, and Yinka Shonibare.
“Earthly Delights” until November 30, 2014
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Image: Untitled #14, 2003 – Lari Pittman (Oil, lacquer and Cel-Vinyl on gessoed canvas over wood panel)
by Bob Martin | Oct 9, 2014 | Art, Exhibits, Museums
I was once enthralled with the big traveling museum super exhibit, where an exhibition turns the curator into the star artist. What I and many other people have noticed over the last ten years is that these exhibits have gotten weak, with titles like “Rembrandt Examined” consisting of two original paintings by the master and 40 other paintings by people who lived nearby.
The “shows”, which is what some people think of them (coming to a museum near you), are so overblown that they become the hot ticket, with lines of people with headsets more interested in the narrative of curator then in musing. I am not faulting the curators, they have an important role to play and they should get credit for that, but we should be paying closer attention to the work, it stands on its own.
In my opinion, the greatest thing going for any art museum, regardless of its size, is the permanent collection. Paintings, Photos, Sculpture, Quilts etc. that you can get to see over and over again, each time discovering for your self something in the art that may be a personal message to you and not someone else’s interpretation. We can think of visual art as music frozen on a canvas. We listen to the same music over and over again, and each time we discover something in the listening of it. Museums offer the same opportunity. I once spent close to one hour looking at one Modigliani in the permanent collection of the MOMA. I sat on a bench across from the painting and just looked and enjoyed.
Museums come in all sizes. The Franklin G. Burroughs – Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in South Carolina is a place I’ve not been to yet and would love to visit. If you live in the area, visit, support and enjoy the work often.
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by Sandy | Sep 29, 2014 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
I love this face!
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston offers “Jamie Wyeth” until December. “This retrospective, the first in more than 30 years, presents a full range of Jamie Wyeth’s work from his earliest, virtuoso portraits to his most current mysteriously symbolic seascapes.”
Some 100 paintings will be included. “The exhibition will feature Wyeth’s portraits of subjects such as his wife, Phyllis Wyeth; John F. Kennedy (commissioned by family members after his death); Rudolf Nureyev; and Andy Warhol; which will be shown alongside a selection of preparatory drawings and studies that offer a window into the artist’s immersive approach to portraiture.”
Jamie Wyeth until December 28, 2014
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
(Image: Kleberg (detail), 1984. Oil on canvas)
by Sandy | Sep 25, 2014 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
This American artist’s work will be all over the Whitney Museum as the building is filled with “Jeff Koons: A Retrospective” until October 19.
“Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces.
Also included are preparatory sketches and plans for sculptures and paintings as well as installation photographs that shed light on Koons’s artistic process and trace the development of his work throughout his landmark career.“
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
Until October 19, 2014
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
(Image: “Michael Jackson and Bubbles”, 1988)
by Sandy | Sep 15, 2014 | Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
I really thought I was raising whatever back in the day when I graduated from “kitten” or “Cuban” heels to a 2 incher. Of course, seeing women prancing around on sky high stilettos today has put me in my place. I don’t /won’t wear them, but I think 6 inch needle heels are fierce and fascinating. The folks at the Brooklyn Museum think so too evidently. They’re putting on a show: ”Killer Heels: The Art of the High Heeled Shoe” until February 15, 2015.
“Killer Heels explores fashion’s most provocative accessory. From the high platform chopines of sixteenth-century Italy to the glamorous stilettos on today’s runways and red carpets, the exhibition looks at the high-heeled shoe’s rich and varied history and its enduring place in our popular imagination.”
Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
“Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is considered one of the twentieth century’s most important artists. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele is celebrated for his singular style of draftsmanship, unusual use of color, and physically raw, often sexually provocative depictions of his sitters. Schiele’s expressive style and controversial subject matter played an important role in the advancement of modernism in Europe.“ This is the first exhibition, approximately 125 paintings, drawings, at an American museum to focus exclusively on portraiture in Schiele’s work.
