by Sandy | Apr 16, 2015 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition includes an overview of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures.”
“The exhibition includes a selection of Wiley’s World Stage paintings, begun in 2006, in which he takes his street casting process to other countries, widening the scope of his collaboration.“
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Brooklyn Museum Until May 24, 2015
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
(Image: Shantavia Beale II, 2012. Oil on canvas)
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by Sandy | Mar 30, 2015 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Represent: 200 Years of African American Art highlights selections from the Museum’s exceptional holdings of African American art and celebrates the publication of a catalogue examining the breadth of these noteworthy collections. With work by renowned artists such as Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, and Carrie Mae Weems, the exhibition showcases a range of subjects, styles, mediums, and traditions.”
“Represent: 200 Years of African American Art”
Until April 5, 2015
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
(Image: James Baldwin, 1963 – Beauford Delaney, 1901 – 1979)
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by Sandy | Feb 9, 2015 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
“With the advent of Modernism in the 20th century, line became its own definitive subject for artists, who no longer used it merely for representational purposes. Line: Making the Mark presents examples created since that historic shift by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Sol LeWitt, and Barnett Newma. The exhibition explores the sundry ways that artists are making marks, whether directly or indirectly. Artists may press pencil directly to paper or brush ink right onto a surface…”
“Line: Making the Mark”
Museum of Fine Arts Houston / MFAH, Until March 22, 2015
(Image: Jasper Johns, “Cicada”, 1979)
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by Sandy | Feb 5, 2015 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Galleries, Museums
“Cubism, the most influential art movement of the early twentieth century, still resonates today. It destroyed traditional illusionism in painting and radically changed the way we see the world. The Leonard A. Lauder Collection, unsurpassed in its holdings of Cubist art, is now a promised gift to the Museum.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition includes…”eighty paintings, collages, drawings, and sculpture by the four preeminent Cubist artists: Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963), Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887–1927), Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955), and Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973).”
The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection
Closes February 15, 2015
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
FYI: Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso…instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. (per Wikipedia)
(Image: “Man at the Café”, Juan Gris 1914)
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by Sandy | Feb 2, 2015 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
“In 1978-79 Andy Warhol produced Shadows, a monumental, 102-part series of silkscreened canvases. The work’s internal compositions are culled from photographs of shadows taken in The Factory, the artist’s New York City studio.”
“MOCA’s presentation will feature the full collection of paintings from Dia Art Foundation. Installed edge to edge, the series of abstract panels-once referred to by Warhol as “disco decor”-create a haunting, environmental ensemble.”
“Andy Warhol: Shadows”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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by Sandy | Jan 29, 2015 | Art, Blogroll, Galleries, Museums
The Dallas Museum of Art presents:
“Small Worlds: Edouard Vuillard and the Intimate Art of the Nabis”
Beginning in the late 1800s, a group of artists, including Edouard Vuillard, Paul Bonnard, Maurice Denis, and Félix Vallotton , “calling themselves the Nabis, a Hebrew word meaning “prophets,” …forged a new relationship to many of the same subjects that had fascinated the impressionists a generation before: the modern city, its streets and public spaces, and the status of the private self in relation to this public sphere.”
“Small Worlds: Edouard Vuillard and the Intimate Art of the Nabis”
DMA / Dallas Museum of Art – Until April 15, 2015
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas
(Image: Maurice Denis, “Portrait of a Young Girl”)
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