by Sandy | Nov 2, 2014 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Museums
“In 2009, Pérez Art Museum Miami (then Miami Art Museum) was one of 50 institutions in 50 states to receive a gift of 50 objects from the legendary collection of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. The Vogels began purchasing art in the 1960s in New York, where they were among the first collectors to focus on Conceptual, Minimalist, and Post-Minimalist tendencies. Despite their modest means—Mrs. Vogel was a librarian and Mr. Vogel a post office worker—the couple amassed over 4,000 important works, developing strong personal relationships with artists such as Robert Barry, Sol LeWitt, Pat Steir and Richard Tuttle. This exhibition showcases this extraordinary couple’s generous donation, while providing a glimpse of their unique sensitivity to experimental artistic production.”
“To Herb and Dorothy: Celebrating the Vogel Gift”
Until November 16, 2014
PAMM / Pérez Art Museum Miami
1103 Biscayne Blvd.
FYI: There is an entertaining documentary called “Herb & Dorothy”. It was part of the PBS “Independent Lens” in 2009. We are given some idea why & how 4,000 pieces of art were collected and stored in the couple’s small 1 bedroom apartment in NYC. It’s on DVD.
(Image: Daryl Trivieri, The Head Trip, 1985)
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by Sandy | Oct 29, 2014 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Galleries, Museums
“Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is considered one of the twentieth century’s most important artists. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele is celebrated for his singular style of draftsmanship, unusual use of color, and physically raw, often sexually provocative depictions of his sitters. Schiele’s expressive style and controversial subject matter played an important role in the advancement of modernism in Europe.“ This is the first exhibition, approximately 125 paintings, drawings, at an American museum to focus exclusively on portraiture in Schiele’s work.
“Egon Schiele: Portraits” – Until January 19, 2015
Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art
104 E 86th St, at 5th Ave, NYC
(Image: Self Portrait, 1910)
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by Sandy | Oct 12, 2014 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Earthly Delights, “eight artists who share a belief in the critical power of beauty. Drawn primarily from the MCA’s permanent collection, and made between 1949 and 2006, the paintings, sculptures, and installations in this exhibition embrace the decorative in defiance of prevailing artistic trends. By reveling in pleasure, exploring private moments, and exuding sensuality, these works challenge the primacy of rationality and logic in modernism.”
The exhibit features work by, Balthus, Lynda Benglis, Carol Bove, Nick Cave, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lari Pittman, and Yinka Shonibare.
“Earthly Delights” until November 30, 2014
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Image: Untitled #14, 2003 – Lari Pittman (Oil, lacquer and Cel-Vinyl on gessoed canvas over wood panel)
by Bob Martin | Oct 9, 2014 | Art, Exhibits, Museums
I was once enthralled with the big traveling museum super exhibit, where an exhibition turns the curator into the star artist. What I and many other people have noticed over the last ten years is that these exhibits have gotten weak, with titles like “Rembrandt Examined” consisting of two original paintings by the master and 40 other paintings by people who lived nearby.
The “shows”, which is what some people think of them (coming to a museum near you), are so overblown that they become the hot ticket, with lines of people with headsets more interested in the narrative of curator then in musing. I am not faulting the curators, they have an important role to play and they should get credit for that, but we should be paying closer attention to the work, it stands on its own.
In my opinion, the greatest thing going for any art museum, regardless of its size, is the permanent collection. Paintings, Photos, Sculpture, Quilts etc. that you can get to see over and over again, each time discovering for your self something in the art that may be a personal message to you and not someone else’s interpretation. We can think of visual art as music frozen on a canvas. We listen to the same music over and over again, and each time we discover something in the listening of it. Museums offer the same opportunity. I once spent close to one hour looking at one Modigliani in the permanent collection of the MOMA. I sat on a bench across from the painting and just looked and enjoyed.
Museums come in all sizes. The Franklin G. Burroughs – Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in South Carolina is a place I’ve not been to yet and would love to visit. If you live in the area, visit, support and enjoy the work often.
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by Sandy | Oct 2, 2014 | Art, Museums
“In 1978, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presented Kahlo’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Using two of the works included in the original 1978 exhibition, Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo brings her work into a dialogue with contemporary art…”
“Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous artists in the world. Her reputation and persona have grown immensely since her death in 1954, yet posthumously she has been turned into a stereotype of Latin American art. This predicament, along with her celebrity status, often overshadows the confrontational and boldly transgressive nature of her paintings, and ultimately undermines the revolutionary intent of her work…”
“Her work subverted accepted notions of gender, sexuality, social class, and ethnicity, and was prophetic in anticipating the broader cultural concerns—post colonialism, feminism, civil rights, multiculturalism, and globalization—that reached a crescendo in the 1960s and continue to be relevant today.”
“Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo“
Until October 5, 2014
(Image: Arbol de la Esperanza (Tree of Hope), 1946, Frida Kahlo)
by Sandy | Sep 29, 2014 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums
I love this face!
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston offers “Jamie Wyeth” until December. “This retrospective, the first in more than 30 years, presents a full range of Jamie Wyeth’s work from his earliest, virtuoso portraits to his most current mysteriously symbolic seascapes.”
Some 100 paintings will be included. “The exhibition will feature Wyeth’s portraits of subjects such as his wife, Phyllis Wyeth; John F. Kennedy (commissioned by family members after his death); Rudolf Nureyev; and Andy Warhol; which will be shown alongside a selection of preparatory drawings and studies that offer a window into the artist’s immersive approach to portraiture.”
Jamie Wyeth until December 28, 2014
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
(Image: Kleberg (detail), 1984. Oil on canvas)
