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
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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 | Nov 5, 2023 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Whitney Museum, NYC, presents: “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945”.
“Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life… It galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.”
The exhibition contains about 200 works by 60 Mexican and American artists, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937)
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