“To bring the grand spectacle of the Ring to the public stage, Richard Wagner labored for decades on the text and musical score, and spent years working to see it premiered in a theater built to his exacting specifications,” said Colin B. Bailey, director of the Morgan… Read More
Monthly archives of “January 2016”
The Power of Prints The Legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 26 – May 22, 2016
“The history of the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of works of art on paper—now one of the most important and most comprehensive in the world—began 100 years ago with the unlikely and astonishing story of its first two curators, neither of whom was trained as an… Read More
Flatlands at Whitney Museum of American Art, January 14 – April 17, 2016
“A pair of group exhibitions featuring the work of emerging artists will go on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the first half of 2016. These shows both examine off-kilter and stagey approaches to representation as a means of exploring pressing social issues. The first… Read More
The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430–1540 at The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 20 – April 17, 2016
“Only three decks of European hand-painted playing cards are known to have survived from the late Middle Ages. These include The Cloisters Playing Cards, which will form the core of this small exhibition highlighting one of the more intriguing works of secular art from The Cloisters… Read More
Sudden Impact: Photography on the Printed Page at International Center of Photography Mana Contemporary Gallery, January 24 to April 8, 2016 –
“Sudden Impact reveals the emergence of photography as a key component of modern visual communication. The magazines displayed in the exhibition helped to create a vast, news-hungry audience that wanted not just to read about the events and celebrities of the day but to see them as well.… Read More
Gianna Scoino: Rebels at Immaginaria Arti Visive Gallery, Florence, January 12 – February 3, 2016
“The intense and visionary expression of Joan of Arc, taken from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, 1928), is the protagonist of Rebels, the cycle of works that Gianna Scoino presents today at the Immaginaria Gallery. The artist has worked for years… Read More
Martin Wong: Human Instamatic at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, through February 14, 2016
“Martin Wong boldly defied the notion of boundary. As an artist, he overhauled assumptions that a painter is defined by their identity. Within his work he embraced the complexity and hybrid nature of urban culture—mixing everything from graffiti and Chinese calligraphy, to West Coast and East… Read More
Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934–1954 at The Museum of Modern Art, through March 13, 2016
“This concentrated survey of the work of Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956) tracks the evolution of the artist’s work from the 1930s until his 1956 death at the age of 44. The Museum of Modern Art’s Pollock holdings are unparalleled in their breadth and quality, and… Read More
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