“On the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect examines the American master’s 75-year career.” The Seattle Museum of Art / SAM offers “his first major retrospective since the artist’s death challenges long-held critical notions of Wyeth as a realist and offers unexpected perspectives on his art, legacy, and influences.”
Until January 15, 2018
Seattle Art Museum – SAM
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA
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“P.S. Art is an annual celebration of achievement in the arts in New York City public schools. This juried exhibition of the work of talented young artists showcases the creativity of 90 prekindergarten through grade 12 students from all five boroughs and includes paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, mixed-media works, collages, and drawings. Each piece demonstrates personal expression, imaginative use of media, the results of close observation, and an understanding of artistic processes.”
P.S. Art 2017: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids
Until October 29, 2017
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
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“This major retrospective—the exhibition’s only North American venue—will honor the artist in his 80th year by presenting his most iconic works and key moments of his career from 1960 to the present.”
“The exhibition will offer a grand overview of the artist’s achievements across all media, including painting, drawing, photography, and video.”
November 27, 2017–February 25, 2018
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
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“Present Tense: Arts of Contemporary Africa”
“This presentation focuses on the art of the present day, including works by nine artists with wide-ranging approaches to “art-making” as well as equally varied subject matter and sources of inspiration. Artists include: Olu Amoda, Owusu Ankomah, Viyé Diba, Etiyé Dimma Poulsen, Lalla Essaydi, Atta Kwami, Nnenna Okore, Yinka Shonibare and Sue Williamson. Together, they provide a window into the ongoing artistic creativity of this dynamic continent…”
“Present Tense: Arts of Contemporary Africa”
The Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
(Image: Atta Kwame, “Dzedodo” (Conversation), 1956)
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Edvard Munch, (1863–1944), painted more than just “The Scream”. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will have 45 of his other pieces on display, including Between the Clock and the Bed, a self portrait. He “was among the most celebrated and controversial artists of his generation. But, as he confessed in 1939, his true breakthrough came very late in life… these profoundly human and technically daring artworks reveal Munch as a tireless innovator and an artist as revolutionary in his maturity as he was in his breakthrough years.”
“Between the Clock and the Bed”
Until October 9, 2017
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA
(Image: Self Portrait, 1940, “Between the Clock and the Bed”)
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The Museum of Fine Arts Houston presents: “Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950”.
Considered to be “the most comprehensive and significant presentation of modern and contemporary Cuban art shown in the United States since 1944… it looks at how Cuba’s revolutionary aspirations for social utopia—and subsequent disillusionment—shaped 65 years of Cuban art. The exhibition brings together more than 100 of the most important works of painting, graphic design, photography, video, installation, and performance created by more than 50 Cuban artists and designers.”
Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950
Until May 31, 2017
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Image: Raúl Martínez, Sin título (Untitled), 1969–70, oil on canvas)
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