“László Moholy-Nagy (b. 1895, Borsód, Austria-Hungary; d. 1946, Chicago) believed in the potential of art as a vehicle for social transformation, working hand in hand with technology for the betterment of humanity. A restless innovator, Moholy-Nagy experimented with a wide variety of mediums, moving fluidly between the fine and… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Manus x Machina features more than 170 examples of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear, dating from the early 1900s to the present. The exhibition addresses the founding of the haute couture in the 19th century, when the sewing machine was invented, and the emergence… Read More
“Five Car Stud is considered one of the American artist’s most significant works. Despite the controversy and attention that it earned from critics right from its debut, the piece remained hidden from view in the storage of a Japanese collector for almost forty years. The artwork was only… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Widely recognized for his elegant and spare modernist sculptures, Elie Nadelman is less known for his role as a pioneering American folk art collector. This summer, the New-York Historical Society celebrates the seminal collection assembled by the modernist artist and his wife in The… Read More
Waiting for Qin Feng, a solo exhibition of work by Chinese ink artist Qin Feng, will be installed in three locations, the former Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, now home to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the Armenian Catholic Monastery on San Lazzaro Island and Venice International University on San… Read More
“Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992), the Irish-born British figurative artist, is considered a major figure of 20th-century art. Many of his iconic works feature an architectural, ghost-like framing device around his subjects. Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms will feature approximately 30 paintings alongside a group of rarely seen drawings and documents including… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. The Woodlawn Cemetery is known internationally as the historic site where many members of the Jazz Community are memorialized. To commemorate the 90th Anniversary of Miles Davis’ birth a tribute concert was held at ‘Jazz Corner’, in front of Davis’ memorial, by… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Through play and provocation, and by engaging both African history and contemporary global politics, Disguise invites us to think critically about our world and our place within it, and to imagine whimsical and tangible possibilities for the future. It includes an immersive… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Cally Spooner: On False Tears and Outsourcing”, Lobby Gallery, April 27–June 19, 2016. The first solo museum presentation in the United States of the work of Cally Spooner (b. 1983, Ascot, UK). The artist has produced a new site-specific installation for the New Museum’s… Read More
Atmosphere for Enjoyment: Harry Bertoia’s Environment for Sound: “In the 1960s, Bertoia began exploring the potential relationship between sculpture and sound, and eventually created a significant oeuvre that would crown his life’s work. Upon discovering the range of tones possible when pieces of wire or metal rods… Read More
“It was the pastels for me that were the magic.” — Lucas Samaras “During the first three decades of his long career, American artist Lucas Samaras (b. 1936 in Greece) turned to pastel to produce small, intimate works that explored themes present in his better-known paintings, sculptures, and installations. He was… Read More
Impact: Abstraction & Experiment in Hungarian Photography highlights László Moholy-Nagy’s experimental drive and his tendency toward abstraction. It juxtaposes his photograms and photo-collages with the work of twenty other artists, past and present, who share these impulses. Moholy-Nagy’s fascination with new media is evident in his remarkable color film, “Light Machine” (1941), and it… Read More
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