by Sandy | Mar 10, 2013 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
“Sinister Pop presents an inventive take on the Museum’s rich and diverse holdings of Pop art from the movement’s inception in the early 1960s through its aftershocks a decade later. Although Pop art often calls to mind a celebration of postwar consumer culture, this exhibition focuses on Pop’s darker side, as it distorts and critiques the American dream. Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored.”
Some of the artists represented are Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol.
Sinister Pop
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
(Image – “Flags”, Jasper Johns)
by Sandy | Jan 21, 2013 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Museums
Picasso Black and White at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
“Surveying the Spanish master’s oeuvre from 1904 to 1971, Picasso Black and White examines the artist’s lifelong exploration of a black-and-white palette through 118 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Picasso’s deceptively simple use of isolated black, white, and gray hues belies the extraordinary complexity and power of these expressive works, which purge color in order to highlight their formal structure. “
Picasso Black and White * Closes January 23, 2013
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), NYC
(Image: “The Milliner’s Workshop” (Atelier de la modiste), Paris, January 1926)
by Sandy | Jan 17, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Variations on Theme: Contemporary Art 1950s–Present”, a current exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art, “brings together works in all media from disparate periods to explore themes and ideas that drive an artist’s creative process. Sections will be devoted to thematic associations including abstraction, minimalism, and the figure… Works from the collection that have never before been seen will be installed alongside a number of recent acquisitions to focus a new lens on ways of discovering the collection. “
“Variations on Theme: Contemporary Art 1950s–Present”
Until January 27, 2013 – Dallas Museum of Art / DMA
1717 North Harwood, Dallas, Texas
Image: Shozo Shimamoto, Untitled–Whirlpool, 1965, oil on canvas
by Sandy | Jan 10, 2013 | Art, Blogroll, Museums
I love them. “Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries examines the story of the French artistic poster in all its complexity. The show will highlight additional artists well known to the public… Alphonse Mucha, and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlin—as well as names less familiar but equally powerful in their impact. “
Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries
Dallas Museum of Art until January 20, 2013
1717 North Harwood, Dallas, Texas
by Sandy | Dec 22, 2012 | Art Travel, Exhibits, Museums
The De Young Museum in San Francisco, CA offers an exhibit of several paintings and sculpture owned by CBS founder William S Paley, (1901-1990).
The selections include work from the late 1800’s to the 1970’s. “Particularly strong in French Post-Impressionism and Modernism, the collection includes multiple works by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, as well as significant works by Edgar Degas, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Andre Derain, Georges Rouault and artists of the Nabis School such as Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.”
The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism
Until December 30, 2012
De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, S.F.
(Image: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906), Milk Can and Apples, 1879–80)
by Sandy | Dec 19, 2012 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Museums, Photograhy
I really enjoy looking at scenes of everyday life, the faces of everyday people. The Studio Museum in Harlem’s presentations always reflect who the inhabitants, of this small section of NYC, are and who they were so well. The latest exhibition is no exception: Harlem Postcards.
“Represented, revered, and recognized by people around the world, Harlem is a continually expanding nexus of black culture, history and iconography. Venerable landmarks, such as the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Apollo Theater, Hotel Theresa, Audubon Ballroom and 125th Street, remain popular emblems of important historic moments and moods. The Studio Museum’s ongoing series, Harlem Postcards, invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site for artistic contemplation and production. Installed in the Museum lobby and available to visitors free of charge, Harlem Postcards present intimate views and fresh perspectives on this famous neighborhood.
This season we feature images by Albert Maysles, Philip Maysles, Frank Stewart and Deborah Willis.”
Harlem Postcards
The Studio Museum in Harlem – Until March 10, 2013
144 West 125th Street
New York, New York
(Image: Experiment on 114th Street (film still), 1964, Albert Maysles)
“Sinister Pop presents an inventive take on the Museum’s rich and diverse holdings of Pop art from the movement’s inception in the early 1960s through its aftershocks a decade later. Although Pop art often calls to mind a celebration of postwar consumer culture, this exhibition focuses on Pop’s darker side, as it distorts and critiques the American dream. Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored.”
