“I always believed that in order to make a really great animated film, you needed to do three things: tell a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seat, populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters, and put that compelling… Read More
Monthly archives of “October 2015”
Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 9, 2015 – January 6, 2016
“A major retrospective—the first in the United States in nearly forty years and the most comprehensive in this country—devoted to the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915–1995). Exploring the beauty and complexity of Burri’s process-based works, the exhibition positions the artist as a central protagonist of post–World… Read More
Take Two: Contemporary Photographs at Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 22, 2015 – November 15, 2015
“This is the second of two exhibitions in the Julien Levy Gallery to feature photographs made since roughly 1970, a period during which photography emerged as a key medium of contemporary art. By the 1960s, photography had established pictorial traditions and standards of craftsmanship. But cultural changes,… Read More
Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions at The Morgan Library & Museum, October 9, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “One of the most important contemporary American artists, Martin Puryear (b. 1941) is known primarily for the refined elegance of his abstract, hand-made sculptures. However, throughout his career he has consistently turned to drawing to elaborate ideas and forms for works in three dimensions.… Read More
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist at Whitney Museum of American Art, October 2, 2015 – January 17, 2016
“Archibald Motley offers a fascinating glimpse into a modernity filtered through the colored lens and foci of a subjective African American urban perspective. Fusing psychology, a philosophy of race, upheavals of class demarcations, and unconventional optics, Motley’s art wedged itself between, on the one hand, a Jazz Age set… Read More
Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s and Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men at The Drawing Center, October 2 – December 20, 2015
Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s – Main Gallery “Richard Pousette-Dart: 1930s is the first in-depth museum consideration of Pousette-Dart’s drawings from the 1930s, a period when the artist pursued directly-carved sculpture, yet also painted, experimented with photography, and created numerous works on paper. The exhibition features approximately 100 works… Read More
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