“The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Henri Michaux: The Other Side, an exhibition which brings together a prominent set of works by an unclassifiable figure of the arts and literature of the 20th century. Over the course of his long life, Henri Michaux (Namur, Belgium, 1899–Paris,… Read More
Monthly archives of “February 2018”
Leon Golub: Raw Nerve at The Met Breuer, February 6 – May 27, 2018
“The occasion for this selective survey of Leon Golub’s work is the recent gift of two paintings, Gigantomachy II (1966) and Vietnamese Head (1970), to The Met. Born in Chicago, Golub (1922 – 2004) occupies a singular position in the history of mid to late… Read More
Natasha Bowdoin: Maneater at MASS MoCA, through November 2018
“In Maneater, Houston, Texas based artist Natasha Bowdoin creates her largest-ever cut paper and collage installation, which investigates the intersections of the visual, the experiential, and the literary, treating language and nature as kindred phenomena. Referencing such sources as Golden Age children’s book illustrations, 19th-century botanical drawings, floral textile patterns, lunar maps, and prints of underwater… Read More
Cesare Tacchi. Una retrospettiva at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, February 7 – May 6, 2018
“Cesare Tacchi. Una retrospettiva is a monographic exhibition, an exercise of attention, study and enhancement, which traces, through the events in the artist’s life, the intellectual tensions of over half a century. The exhibition narrative focuses on the works of Cesare Tacchi (1940–2014) to whom… Read More
Álvaro Lapa: All of Time at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal, February 8 – May 13, 2018
“The exhibition ‘Álvaro Lapa: All of Time’ will be the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the influential Portuguese artist Álvaro Lapa (Évora, 1939 – Porto, 2006). A writer and self-taught artist, Lapa was an influential Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto from 1976… Read More
Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar at New Mexico History Museum, through February 11, 2018
“From the 1880s into the early 20th century, cigar manufacturers provided an avenue for the lithographic arts to flourish. Layering up to 10 colors in a stone-lithography process and even adding gold embellishments and stamped embossings, the images sold cigars through romantic landscapes, Western adventures,… Read More
Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty: Concept and Design by Robert Wilson at The Minneapolis Institute of Art, February 3 – May 27, 2018
The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) collaborated with celebrated theatre director and visual artist Robert Wilson to organize a first-of-its-kind exhibition highlighting the drama, rituals, and opulence of the Qing Empire, the last imperial dynasty of China. The exhibition presents objects from Mia’s renowned collection of Chinese art, including rare court… Read More
Anna-Wili Highfield: Spirit Faces at Olsen Gruin Gallery, February 6 – March 6, 2018
“Olsen Gruin is pleased to present Spirit Faces, an installational exhibition of new sculptures by Australian artist Anna-Wili Highfield (b. 1980, Sydney). Highfield’s first fully conceived body of work in a decade, Spirit Faces gathers a celebratory mélange of animals, body parts, and self-portraits. Virtuosic and playful, Highfield’s mixed… Read More
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