“Albert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle examines German artist Albert Oehlen’s radical challenge to the traditions of painting with works from the last 30 years. The exhibition’s title alludes to Oehlen’s recurring use of the tree to test the boundaries of figuration and abstraction. Throughout his… Read More
Monthly archives of “November 2016”
Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016 at Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, through January 16, 2017
“The 2016 Renwick Invitational, Visions and Revisions, highlights the work of four craft artists, Jennifer Trask, Steven Young Lee, Kristen Morgin, and Norwood Viviano, who invite chance into their practice, and explore universal cycles of growth and decline, ruin and reinvention. Jennifer Trask creates ornate sculpture and jewelry with… Read More
One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers at The Museum of Modern Art, November 23, 2016-April 02, 2017
“Josef Albers (American, born Germany, 1888–1976) is a central figure in 20th-century art, both as a practitioner and as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale University. Best known for his iconic series Homages to the Square, Albers made paintings, drawings, and… Read More
Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion at The Met Fifth Avenue, November 18, 2016 – February 5, 2017
The Costume Institute’s exhibition, Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion features significant acquisitions of the past 10 years. The show explores how the department has honed its collecting strategy to amass masterworks of the highest aesthetic and technical quality, including iconic works by designers who have changed the course of fashion history and advanced fashion… Read More
Gene Davis: Hot Beat at Smithsonian American Art Museum, November 18- April 2, 2017
“With no more than a rectangular canvas and multicolor stripes, Gene Davis (1920–1985), considered a leader of the Washington Color School, created a richly varied body of work that looks as fresh today as it did when it first was shown. He is best known… Read More
Pierre Gouthière: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court at The Frick Collection, November 16, 2016 – February 19, 2017
“Pierre Gouthière (1732–1813) was one of the greatest French artists of the eighteenth century. A master chaser-gilder, he created opulent objets d’art that were coveted by the wealthiest and most important figures of pre-revolutionary France, including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Louis XV’s mistress Madame Du… Read More
Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction at The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2016 – March 19, 2017
“A self-proclaimed “Funny Guy” and “artist of many genres,” Francis Picabia was born in Paris in 1879. His father was a Cuban-born Spaniard; his mother was French. He embraced this mixed lineage and occasionally extended it, declaring, “I was born in Paris to a Cuban,… Read More
Fernando Guibert Generations at The Crypt Gallery, Saint Pancras Parish Church, London, November 17 – November 20, 2016
Fernando Guibert Generations is an exhibition of two Argentine artists, Fernando Guibert and Fernando D Guibert, father and son respectively. The show spans two generations of expressive oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints, some of which have never been exhibited in Great Britain before. Fernando Guibert was born in 1912… Read More
Edward Krasiński at Tate Liverpool, through March 5, 2017
“Tate Liverpool presents the first UK retrospective by Edward Krasiński (1925–2004), one of the most significant Eastern European artists of the 20th century. The exhibition spans the artist’s career bringing together a range of his dynamic sculptures, Interventions and installations including a group of rarely… Read More
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at The Met Breuer, through January 29, 2017
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “This exhibition, the largest to date for Kerry James Marshall (born 1955), spans the artist’s remarkable thirty-five-year career. Born in Birmingham before the Civil Rights Act and having witnessed the Watts rebellion in Los Angeles in 1965, Marshall has long chronicled… Read More
Tales of Our Time at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, through March 10, 2017
“The artists in this exhibition challenge the conventional understanding of place. The featured works—all of which are new commissions—portray often-overlooked cultural and historical narratives and examine concepts of geography and nation-state. Each addresses a specific location, such as an artist’s hometown, remote borderlands, or a group of uninhabited islands, as… Read More
Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design at The Jewish Museum, November 4, 2016 – March 26, 2017
“The Jewish Museum presents the first U.S. exhibition focused on French designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950). Showcasing rare furniture, lighting fixtures, and interiors, as well as designs for the extraordinary Maison de Verre, the glass house completed in Paris in 1932, Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture… Read More
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