“The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is the exclusive United States venue for the retrospective exhibition Walker Evans. As one of the preeminent photographers of the 20th century, Walker Evans’ 50-year body of work documents and distills the essence of life in America,… Read More
Monthly archives of “September 2017”
Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, September 27 – January 15, 2018
“Furniture generated by smart algorithms, the world’s first fully functional 3-D printed steel bridge and a 3-D printable Makerchair that can be downloaded from the internet. These are but a few examples of the ingenious oeuvre of designer/inventor Joris Laarman, who works at the intersection… Read More
Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait at Museum of Modern Art, September 24, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait is the first comprehensive survey of Bourgeois’s prints and illustrated books. It places these mediums within the context of the artist’s overall practice and sheds new light on her creative process. The exhibition includes 265 prints (including… Read More
Dorrance Dance: World Premiere of Myelination at New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, October 2 & 3, 2017
Tap dance company Dorrance Dance, founded in 2011 by Artistic Director and 2015 MacArthur Fellow Michelle Dorrance, announces the World Premiere of Myelination at New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival. Myelination (2017) was commissioned, in part, by Cal Performances, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California and by New… Read More
José Leonilson: Empty Man at Americas Society, September 27, 2017 – February 3, 2018
“José Leonilson (1957-1993) came of age as an artist during the 80s generation in Brazil. What he shared with this diverse artistic milieu was the so-called ‘joy of painting,’ rediscovered in the years following the end of Brazil’s dictatorship. What separated him from his contemporaries was his… Read More
East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography at New Orleans Museum of Art, October 6, 2017 – January 7, 2018
“Pictures of the American West have dominated the canon of 19th-century American landscape photography. Although many photographers worked in the eastern half of the United States, their pictures, with the exception of Civil War images, have seldom been exhibited. In association with NOMA, this landmark exhibition,… Read More
Modigliani Unmasked at The Jewish Museum, through February 4, 2018
“They quickly became close friends: Dr. Paul Alexandre, the young French physician, enamored of art, and Amedeo Modigliani, the fledgling Italian Jewish artist, recently arrived in Paris. Between 1907 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914 they met almost daily. Despite his modest… Read More
Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield at International Center of Photography, September 20, 2017 – January 7, 2018
“Generation Wealth is a mixed media presentation composed of 25 years of work by photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield. The first major retrospective of Greenfield’s work, the exhibition features over 200 photographs, numerous first-person interviews, and documentary film footage. Weaving together stories about affluence,… Read More
Rodin at The Met at The Met 5th Avenue, September 16, 2017 – January 15, 2018
“On the centenary of the death of Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates its historic collection of the artist’s work in Rodin at The Met. Nearly 50 marbles, bronzes, plasters, and terracottas by Rodin, representing more than a century of acquisitions and gifts to the Museum,… Read More
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980 at The Met Breuer, September 13, 2017 – January 14, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Delirious times demand delirious art. Irrationality was a subject of great interest among artists after World War II, and many created works designed to simulate or stimulate delirium. Such objects operate at the outer limits of reason, flirting with spatial, behavioral,… Read More
Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art at New-York Historical Society, September 15, 2017 – January 21, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Arthur Szyk’s art transcends time and place. Inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts, the works he created during and after World War II capture the savagery of Nazism, the dangers of totalitarianism, and the pathos of American racism. Although small in scale,… Read More
Call & Response at Wave Hill, through December 3, 2017
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Call & Response focuses on the developing concept of site-specificity as it relates to the projects that have been exhibited in Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space, an annex of Glyndor Gallery. The entire Glyndor Gallery is given over to this exhibition,… Read More
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