Photographs by Corrado Serra. Morpho’s Nest in the Cadmium House is a site-specific installation of five double-sided paintings on carved Catalonian sandstone by New York-based Spanish artist Lluís Lleó. The 13-foot, 7,000-pound paintings are Lleó’s first public art exhibition in New York. They are part of… Read More
Monthly archives of “May 2017”
Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg at Americas Society, May 4 – July 22, 2017
“Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg is the end result of the artist’s collaboration with members of the high school marching band, Banda de Guerra Lobos, at the Colegio Hispanoamericano in Mexico City. Meyenberg and the teenagers—together with curators, guest musicians, composers, costume designers,… Read More
Alberto Giacometti at Tate Modern, May 10 – September 10, 2017
“Tate Modern presents the UK’s first major retrospective of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) for 20 years. Celebrated as a sculptor, painter and draughtsman, Giacometti’s distinctive elongated figures are some of the most instantly recognisable works of modern art. This exhibition reasserts Giacometti’s place alongside the likes… Read More
Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW at The Museum of Modern Art, through July 30, 2017
“For the past forty years, Louise Lawler’s witty and slyly feminist work has raised questions about the cultural circumstances that support art’s production, circulation, and presentation. Lawler emerged in the 1970s as part of the Pictures Generation—a loosely knit group of artists who used media tactics to critically examine… Read More
Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry at Jewish Museum, May 5 – September 24, 2017
“Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry is the first major U.S. exhibition in over 20 years focused on artist Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). The exhibition showcases over 50 paintings and drawings in addition to costume and theater designs, photographs, and ephemera, offering a timely reconsideration of this influential American artist with… Read More
Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between at The Met Fifth Avenue, May 4 – September 4, 2017
“Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between examines Kawakubo’s fascination with interstitiality, or the space between boundaries. In Kawakubo’s work, this in-between space is revealed as an aesthetic sensibility, establishing an unsettling zone of oscillating visual ambiguity that challenges conventional notions of beauty, good taste, and fashionability. A thematic… Read More
Irving Penn: Centennial at The Met Fifth Avenue, April 24 – July 30, 2017
“Celebrated for more than sixty years of masterly work at Vogue magazine, Irving Penn (1917–2009) was a superb photographer of style, but his attention to fashion was merely one aspect of his lifelong study of face and figure, attitude and demeanor, adornment and artifact. As… Read More
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