by Sandy | Apr 10, 2014 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“The first comprehensive overview of Italian Futurism to be presented in the United States, this multidisciplinary exhibition examines the historical sweep of the movement from its inception with F. T. Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto in 1909 through its demise at the end of World War II. Presenting over 300 works executed between 1909 and 1944, the chronological exhibition encompasses not only painting and sculpture, but also architecture, design, ceramics, fashion, film, photography, advertising, free-form poetry, publications, music, theater, and performance.”
Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe
Until September 1, 2014
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 89th St. and 5th Avenue, NYC
FYI: “Futurism…was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the aeroplane and the industrial city. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere.” Per WikiPedia
(Image:“Abstract Speed + Sound” (Velocità astratta + rumore), 1913–14, Giacomo Balla)
by Sandy | Mar 6, 2014 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“MCA DNA: Alexander Calder traces the development of the artist’s ideas over a fifty-year career, in particular, his exploration of how art can move in response to its physical environment. The exhibition presents examples of Alexander Calder’s (American, 1898–1976), mobiles, stabiles, and works on paper dating from the 1920s to the 1970s—a selection of the museum’s in-depth holdings of the seminal artist’s work.”
MCA DNA: Alexander Calder
Until August 17, 2014
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago IL
Image: Chat-mobile (Cat Mobile), 1966
by Sandy | Feb 7, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
I saw this image on greeting cards years ago, loved the flowers, didn’t know who painted them until now. I still think they’re beautiful.
“The acclaimed international tour of The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute concludes in Houston at the MFAH. Showcasing the Clark’s renowned holdings of 19th-century French painting, this spectacular exhibition features more than 70 works of art by a stellar lineup that includes Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Also represented are Pierre Bonnard, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Jean-François Millet, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.”
The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Until March 23, 2014
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Image: “Roses in a Bowl and Dish”, 1885 – Henri Jean Fantin-Latour)
by Sandy | Jan 6, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
The Studio Museum in Harlem offers an installation that looks at visions of prospects to come thru art. “The Shadows Took Shape is a dynamic interdisciplinary exhibition exploring contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics. Coined in 1994 by writer Mark Dery in his essay “Black to the Future,” the term “Afrofuturism” refers to a creative and intellectual genre that emerged as a strategy to explore science fiction, fantasy, magical realism and pan-Africanism. With roots in the avant-garde musical stylings of sonic innovator Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, 1914–1993), Afrofuturism has been used by artists, writers and theorists as a way to prophesize the future, redefine the present and reconceptualize the past.”
“The twenty-nine artists featured in The Shadows Took Shape work in a wide variety of media, including photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture and multimedia installation. Participating artists include Derrick Adams, John Akomfrah, Laylah Ali, Edgar Arceneaux, Sanford Biggers, Edgar Cleijne + Ellen Gallagher, William Cordova (in collaboration with Nyeema Morgan and Otabenga Jones & Associates), Cristina De Middel, Khaled Hafez, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Kira Lynn Harris, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Wayne Hodge, David Huffman, Cyrus Kabiru, Wanuri Kahiu, Hew Locke, Mehreen Murtaza, Wangechi Mutu, Harold Offeh, The Otolith Group, Robert Pruitt, Sun Ra, RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Larissa Sansour, Cauleen Smith, William Villalongo and Saya Woolfalk.”
The Shadows Took Shape
The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, NYC
by Sandy | Dec 26, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Balthus, (Balthasar Klossowski, 1908 – 2001), is currently featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. “Focusing on his finest works, the exhibition will be limited to approximately thirty-five paintings dating from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Between 1936 and 1939, Balthus painted his celebrated series of portraits of Thérèse Blanchard, his young neighbor in Paris. Thérèse posed alone, with her cat, or with her two brothers… Never before shown in public will be the series of forty small ink drawings for Mitsou, in which the eleven-year-old Balthus evoked his adventures with a stray tomcat and which were published by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1921…This is the first exhibition of the artist’s works in this country in thirty years.”
Balthus: Cats and Girls—Paintings and Provocations
Until January 12, 2014
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
by Sandy | Dec 5, 2013 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Frick in NYC highlights work from a few Dutch masters until January 19, 2014. “The Frick Collection is the final American venue of a global tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Netherlands. While the prestigious Dutch museum undergoes an extensive two-year renovation, it is lending masterpieces that have not traveled in nearly thirty years. At the Frick, a selection of fifteen paintings includes the beloved Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) by Johannes Vermeer and Carel Fabritius’s exquisite Goldfinch (1654).”
Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting
The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street
New York, NY
“The first comprehensive overview of Italian Futurism to be presented in the United States, this multidisciplinary exhibition examines the historical sweep of the movement from its inception with F. T. Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto in 1909 through its demise at the end of World War II. Presenting over 300 works executed between 1909 and 1944, the chronological exhibition encompasses not only painting and sculpture, but also architecture, design, ceramics, fashion, film, photography, advertising, free-form poetry, publications, music, theater, and performance.”
