by Sandy | Aug 3, 2016 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Dallas Museum of Art offers 140 photographs by Irving Penn, (1917–2009), the first retrospective in twenty years.
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty showcases “one of the best-known American photographers of the 20th century. In a career that spanned almost seventy years, Penn worked on professional and artistic projects across multiple genres. He was a master of both black-and-white and color photography, and he was key to the revival of platinum printing in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty – Until August 14, 2016
DMA / Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood, Dallas, Texas
(Image: Irving Penn, “Sitting Enga Woman”))
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by Sandy | Jul 21, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Art Institute of Chicago:
“What is American art? That is a question the country’s artists asked and answered in myriad ways during the decade spanning the economic crash of 1929 through America’s entry into World War II. With economic downturn at home and the rising threat of fascism abroad, artists of the time applied their individualized visions of the nation to rethinking modernism. This exhibition brings together 50 works by some of the foremost artists of the era—including Aaron Douglas, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Grant Wood—to examine the landscape of the United States during the Great Depression and the many avenues artists explored as they sought to forge a new national art and identity.”
America After The Fall: Painting In The 1930s
Thru September 18, 2016
AIC / The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Il
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by Sandy | Jul 16, 2016 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which debuted in 1935, has undergone extensive renovations since 2013. The grand re opening happened on Saturday, May 14, 2016. One of the exhibitions on view is the “The Campaign for Art”.
“Among the Painting and Sculpture highlights are two key paintings by Jackson Pollock, important works by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and an entire gallery dedicated to Joseph Beuys. A space devoted to the late work of Diane Arbus showcases a major gift to the Photography department. Media Arts features significant historic pieces by performance and video pioneers Ant Farm, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Nam June Paik…”
“The Campaign for Art”
Thru September 18, 2016
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA
(Image: Richard Diebenkorn, “Coffee” 1959)
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by Sandy | Jun 6, 2016 | Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
“Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933) is one of the most influential photographers of the last half century. Working in both color and black and white …Davidson is known for his humanist outlook and a desire to engage directly with his subject matter, approaches that owe much to his early artistic influences in photography, including Robert Frank, W. Eugene Smith, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.”
“Bruce Davidson: Gifts to the Collection”
Until September 11, 2016
De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
(Image: “England/Scotland”, 1960)
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by Sandy | Apr 20, 2016 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Seattle Art Museum presents: Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
“Kehinde Wiley is one of the leading American artists to emerge in the last decade and he has been ingeniously reworking the grand portraiture traditions. Since ancient times the portrait has been tied to the representation of power, and in European courts and churches, artists and their patrons developed a complex repository of postures and poses and refined a symbolic language… Wiley’s portraits are highly stylized and staged, and draw attention to the dialectic between a history of aristocratic representation and the portrait as a statement of power and the individual’s sense of empowerment.”
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Seattle Art Museum – Until May 8 2016
(Image: Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness (detail), 2013, Kehinde Wiley)
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by Sandy | Apr 16, 2016 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
On March 18, 2016 the Metropolitan Museum expanded to a building at 75th and Madison Avenue. Formerly the Whitney Museum of American Art, designed by Marcel Breuer, it will be devoted to 20th and 21st Century art.
The Met Breuer, (pronounced BROY-er)
945 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10021
(Closed Mondays)
FYI: Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St, NYC
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