by Sandy | Mar 20, 2016 | Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: “The Cradle”, John Biggers
“Statements: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection is the latest in a series of focused installations highlighting unique areas of strength in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Featuring artists who have shaped the course of American art across eight decades, Statements brings together more than 40 works in a wide range of media, from Richmond Barthé’s iconic Feral Benga of 1935 to Mark Bradford’s Circa 1992, created in 2015.”
Some of the artists included in the exhibit: John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Melvin Edwards, Loretta Pettway Louise Ozell Martin, Gordon Parks, Ernest C. Withers Mequitta Ahuja, Nick Cave, Glenn Ligon, and Kara Walker.
“Statements: African American Art”
Until April 24, 2016
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX
(Image: The Cradle, John Biggers, 1950, Conté crayon on paper board)
***
by Sandy | Feb 14, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums, Photograhy
The Art Institute of Chicago showcases the work of: “Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946) tirelessly promoted photography as a fine art. Through his own photographic work over the course of a half-century, the photographic journals he edited and published, and the New York galleries at which he organized exhibitions of photographs, paintings, and sculpture, Stieglitz showed photography to be an integral part of modern art in America. In a search for artistic ancestors, he looked intently at photography of the 19th century, most notably that of Julia Margaret Cameron and the Scottish duo David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Their work resonated for Pictorialism, a movement that valued painterly, handcrafted images, and these earlier photographs were exhibited and reprinted for new audiences.“
“Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century”
Until March. 27, 2016
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
***
by Bob Martin | Feb 4, 2016 | Art, Events, Exhibits
by Sandy | Jan 21, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits
“Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum”
Phrenological Head, Asa Ames, 1850, paint on wood
“Self-Taught Genius considers the shifting implications of a self-taught ideology in the United States, from a widely endorsed and deeply entrenched movement of self-education, to its current use to describe artists creating outside traditional frames of reference and canonical art history.”
“Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum”
New Orleans Museum of Art / NOMA
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
***
by Sandy | Jan 11, 2016 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Frank Stella (b. 1936) is one of the most important living American artists. This retrospective is the most comprehensive presentation of Stella’s career to date, showcasing his prolific output from the mid-1950s to the present through approximately 100 works, including paintings, reliefs, maquettes, sculptures, and drawings.”
Frank Stella: A Retrospective – Until February 7, 2016
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
Image: “The Whiteness of the Whale” – Frank Stella (b.1936)
***
by Sandy | Jan 2, 2016 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“Archibald John Motley Jr. (1891–1981) was a bold and highly original modernist and one of the great visual chroniclers of twentieth-century American life…he also developed and elucidated his own archetypes of place and people in this country, albeit unapologetically based on African American subject matter. As the work on view in Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist eloquently attests…the artist created a far more daring visual language than many of his contemporaries, fusing vivid narrative with dizzying spatial distortion and jarring hues to produce striking settings for characters of diverse racial backgrounds and social classes.”
“Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist” Until January 17, 2016
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC
(Image:Archibald J. Motley, “Tongues (Holy Rollers)”, 1929)
***
