“Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection brings together works by more than a dozen artists, made in the past decade and recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art. The artists that make up this intergenerational selection address current anxiety and unrest around the world and offer critical… Read More
Monthly archives of “March 2017”
Whitney Biennial 2017 at Whitney Museum of American Art, March 17 – June 11, 2017
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy-eighth installmentof the longest running survey of American art, features sixty-three individuals and collectives whose work takes a wide variety of forms, from painting and installation to activism and video-game design. Established in 1932, the Biennial… Read More
Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms at The Met Breuer, March 21 – July 23, 2017
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “This exhibition is the first U.S. retrospective of the work of Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004). After World War II, Brazil underwent a period of rapid industrialization and development, epitomized by the inauguration in 1960 of a new modern capital, Brasília.… Read More
Marsden Hartley’s Maine at The Met Breuer, March 15 – June 18, 2017
“My own education [began] in my native hills, going with me— these hills wherever I went, looking never more wonderful than they did to me in Paris, Berlin, or Provence.” — Marsden Hartley, “On the Subject of Nativeness—A Tribute to Maine,” 1937 “American painter and poet… Read More
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin at The Jewish Museum, March 17 – August 6, 2017
“The Arcades Project foreshadows our experience of modernity: we absorb an overwhelming mass of information and cultural activity, yet it comes to us in a fragmented form, often through social and digital media, without the orderly coherence that thinkers and artists once predicted for the… Read More
Charlemagne Palestine’s Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahland at The Jewish Museum, March 17 – August 6, 2017
“The colorful, fantastical world of visual artist, musician, composer, and performer Charlemagne Palestine (b. 1947, Brooklyn, New York) arrives at the Jewish Museum with an immersive installation influenced by childhood experience and by the artist’s Brooklyn Jewish roots. Charlemagne Palestine’s Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahland features… Read More
Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form at James A. Michener Art Museum, March 18 – July 9, 2017
“Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form, a groundbreaking exhibition that features never-before-seen photographs by Charles Sheeler, one of America’s most celebrated modernists. Inspired by Sheeler’s portrait and fashion work for Condé Nast from 1926 to 1931, the multimedia show will feature a significant display… Read More
William Powhida: After the Contemporary at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, through September 4, 2017
“William Powhida: After the Contemporary is a fictive review of today’s art world from the year 2050. This will be Powhida’s first solo museum exhibition and will draw from a variety of academic, curatorial, philosophical, and sociological sources, as well as the genre of speculative fiction. For more than a decade… Read More
Paradise of Exiles: Early Photography in Italy at The Met Fifth Avenue, March 13 – August 13, 2017
“Paradise of Exiles: Early Photography in Italy focuses on Italy’s importance as a center of exchange and experimentation during the first three decades of photography’s history—from 1839, the year of its invention, to 1871, the year Italy became a unified nation. The exhibition highlights the… Read More
Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place at Denver Art Museum, through October 22, 2017
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) presents Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, an exhibition of site-specific installations by emerging and mid-career Latino artists that express experiences of contemporary life in the American West. “We’re proud to support innovative work by artists who bring their unique perspective… Read More
Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia at Asia Society Museum, March 7 – June 4, 2017
“Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia features precious cargo—bound for the Abbasid Caliphate, an empire that included present-day Iran and Iraq, and produced in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907)—including ceramics, gold and silver vessels, bronze mirrors, and other artifacts.… Read More
On Site: Eko Nugroho at Asia Society, through April 16, 2017
Asia Society commissioned Indonesian contemporary artist Eko Nugroho (b. 1977, Yogyakarta) to create a new site-specific mural on the walls of the Visitor Center. The video shows the artist at work during his three day residency in the building. The mural complements Video Spotlight: Eko Nugroho, an exhibition… Read More
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