by Sandy | Aug 9, 2013 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
With Intersecting Modernities, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston offers a look at their collection of Latin American art. “…more than 100 masterworks created by artists at the height of their careers—including Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, and Joaquín Torres-García—from The Brillembourg Capriles Collection of Latin American Art.”
“…This extraordinary exhibition brings together artists who were influential in avant-garde movements in Europe, Latin America, and the United States and whose contributions to art bridge aspects of Modernism from both sides of the Atlantic.”
Intersecting Modernities until September 2, 2013
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Image: El Reto (The Challenge), 1954, David Alfaro Siqueiros)
by Sandy | Jul 18, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
European artists escaping the turmoil of World War II came to New York during the ‘40s to work and exhibit. A lot of their paintings were collected by the Guggenheim Museum in NYC:
“Kandinsky: 1911-1913” until April 2013
The acquisition of Kandinsky’s paintings and water colors started in 1929. “This intimate collection exhibition highlights paintings completed at the moment the artist transitioned toward complete abstraction and published his aesthetic treatise, On the Spiritual in Art (1911).
“Thannhauser Collection” ongoing
The vast art collection of Justin Thannhauser, son of an art dealer, includes works by such artists as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
89th Street and 5th Avenue, NYC
(Image: Vasily Kandinsky, “Composition VII”, 1913)
by Sandy | Jul 9, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“The Met’s current Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, examines punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition includes original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk’s visual symbols.”
PUNK: Chaos to Couture
Until August 14, 2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
by Sandy | Jun 6, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
This is just one of the many beautiful Benin bronze figures included in the Metropolitan Museum’s “Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas” exhibits.
“Oba” was the term used for King in Benin, West Africa (now part of Nigeria). I am so grateful that some of this former kingdom’s art has been preserved.
Art can be such a history lesson sometimes. So often it represents what is most important to a people during specific periods of their time.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
www.metmuseum.org
*Head of an Oba, 16th century (ca. 1550) Nigeria; Edo, Court of Benin (Brass)
by Sandy | Mar 25, 2013 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art launches an exhibit focused on the connection between the art and fashion of the mid- 19th Century. Along with paintings, including some on loan from museums around the world including the Musée d’Orsay, there will be photographs and illustrations from the period.
“Highlights of the exhibition include Monet’s Luncheon on the Grass (1865–66) and Women in the Garden (1866), Bazille’s Family Reunion (1867), Bartholomé’s In the Conservatory (circa 1881, paired with the sitter’s dress)…Monet’s Camille (1866) from the Kunsthalle, Bremen, Renoir’s Lise–The Woman with the Umbrella (1867) from the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and Manet’s La Parisienne (circa 1875) from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, which have never before traveled to the United States…”
Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity Until May 27, 2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
by Sandy | Mar 15, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston presents 30 pieces from international artist Lois Mailou Jones, 1905-1998. Born in Boston, her work was influential to other black artists during the Harlem Renaissance and her art is reflective of her travels to France, Haiti and Africa.
Lois Mailou Jones Until October 14, 2013
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
(Image: “La Baker”, 1977 acrylic and collage on canvas)
With Intersecting Modernities, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston offers a look at their collection of Latin American art. “…more than 100 masterworks created by artists at the height of their careers—including Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, and Joaquín Torres-García—from The Brillembourg Capriles Collection of Latin American Art.”
