“Donald Sultan’s career as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker spans more than forty years. Born in 1951, Sultan rose to prominence in the 1980s, the same years he began his industrial landscape series The Disaster Paintings, on which he worked for nearly a decade. Illustrating… Read More
Monthly archives of “May 2017”
World War I Beyond the Trenches at New-York Historical Society, May 26 – September 03, 2017
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “To honor the centennial of America’s involvement in World War I, the New-York Historical Society presents a special exhibition examining this monumental event through the eyes of American artists. World War I Beyond the Trenches explores how artists across generations, aesthetic sensibilities, and the… Read More
A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach at Portland Museum of Art, through September 8, 2017
“A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach is the first exhibition to investigate the integral relationships between modernism, classicism, and popular imagery in the interwar sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach. The exhibition, co-organized by the Portland Museum of Art and… Read More
Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends at The Museum of Modern Art, through September 17, 2017
“In 1959, Robert Rauschenberg wrote, “Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)” When Rauschenberg launched his career in the early 1950s, the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism was in its… Read More
Magnum Manifesto at International Center of Photography, May 26 – September 3, 2017
“What is Magnum? A cooperative of renowned photographers, created in Paris and New York in 1947; an innovative economic model, enabling its members to become owners of their images and independent authors in their own right; a place for debates, founded on ethical and aesthetic… Read More
Sandra Muss: Portals Inaugurates The Woods In The Kreeger Museum Sculpture Garden May 18, 2017
Photographs by Corrado Serra. Portals, a site-specific, permanent installation by artist Sandra Muss inaugurates the woods portion of the Kreeger Museum Sculpture Garden. The Kreeger’s expansion of its outdoor exhibition space allows visitors the opportunity to experience art in a natural setting. Muss’s installation creates… Read More
The American Writers Museum opened in Chicago May 16, 2017
The American Writers Museum (AWM), interactive and high tech, is the first and only museum of its kind in the United States. The mission of the American Writers Museum is to engage the public in celebrating American writers and exploring their influence on our history, our… Read More
fashion after Fashion at Museum of Arts and Design, April 26 – August 6, 2017
“The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) presents fashion after Fashion, an exhibition that seeks to redefine the term “Fashion” by presenting the work of six designer teams who are thinking—and making us think—about fashion anew. Featuring some of the most innovative work being produced in the context… Read More
Raymond Depardon: Correspondance New-Yorkaise 2017 at The French Institute Alliance Française Gallery, May 12 – July 1, 2017
“Raymond Depardon revisits his landmark 1981 Correspondance New-Yorkaise in a special commission for the FIAF Gallery. New photos taken daily from May 1 through 11, 2017 were published in the Libération newspaper in France every day. They are displayed in the FIAF Gallery alongside his original 1980s series, creating… Read More
Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography at Smithsonian American Art Museum, May 12 – August 6, 2017
“The American city underwent unprecedented transformations after World War II. As middle-class populations shifted to the suburbs and new highways cut through thriving neighborhoods, many cities began to experience economic and social disintegration, especially in Black, Latino, and working class communities. Down these Mean Streets:… Read More
Philip Guston and the Poets at Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, May 10 – September 3, 2017
“Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia presents the work of the pre-eminent American painter Philip Guston (1913 – 1980) in a major exhibition exploring the artist’s oeuvre in relation to critical literary interpretation. In a spirit reflective of how Guston himself cultivated the sources of his inspiration,… Read More
The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied. at Ca’ Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada, May 13 – November 26, 2017
“The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied. — a project developed by Udo Kittelmann with Thomas Demand, Alexander Kluge and Anna Viebrock — fills the spaces of Ca’ Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada’s venue in Venice, with artworks, movies and theater sceneries whose cross-pollination and mutual inspiration attest an… Read More
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