“Corot: Women focuses on images of women that Corot painted throughout his career but rarely exhibited in his lifetime. Dressed in rustic Italian costume or nude on a grassy plain, rendered with a sophisticated use of color and a deft, delicate touch, Corot’s women convey a mysterious sense… Read More
Monthly archives of “August 2018”
Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library at Annenberg Space for Photography, through September 9, 2018
“The exhibition is a collection of nearly 500 images – discovered within a collection of more than 14 million pictures – permanently housed in the world’s largest library at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Put together by the distinguished photography curator Anne Wilkes Tucker, the… Read More
Tennessee Williams: Playwright and Painter at Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, through October 7, 2018
“This exhibit features nine of Tennessee William’s paintings dating from the 1970s. The paintings are on loan from David Wolkowsky, one of Williams’ closest friends and long-standing Key West resident. Wolkowsky entertained Williams at his private island on Ballast Key, nine miles off of Key… Read More
Ranjani Shettar: Seven ponds and a few raindrops at The Met Fifth Avenue, through September 16, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Suspended from the ceiling, Seven ponds and a few raindrops is composed of stainless steel elements that have been molded into a series of sensual, curved, amoeba-like forms covered in tamarind-stained muslin—a technique derived from a craft tradition Shettar observed in… Read More
Ecological Consciousness: Artist as Instigator & Sunroom Project Space 2018 at Wave Hill, through August 26, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Ecological Consciousness: Artist as Instigator continues Wave Hill’s efforts to examine the ways that artists engage in ecological projects that present calls to action. The exhibition documents environmental art that explores persistent problems throughout New York City. Artists are the voice of… Read More
John Akomfrah: Signs of Empire at New Museum, through September 2, 2018
“The New Museum presents the first American survey exhibition of the work of British artist, film director, and writer John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Accra, Ghana). Since the early 1980s, Akomfrah’s moving image works have offered some of the most rigorous and expansive reflections on the… Read More
Vik Muniz: Photography and the Rebirth of Wonder at The Chrysler Museum of Art, through October 14, 2018
“The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia unveils a major retrospective of photographs by celebrated contemporary artist Vik Muniz. Vik Muniz: Photography and the Rebirth of Wonder explores the full breadth of the imaginative artist’s career with more than 100 photographs, including many of Muniz’s… Read More
Empresses of China’s Forbidden City at The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), August 18, 2018 – February 10, 2019
“Empresses of China’s Forbidden City is the first major international exhibition to explore the role of empresses in China’s last dynasty—the Qing dynasty, from 1644 to 1912. Nearly 200 spectacular works, including imperial portraits, jewelry, garments, Buddhist sculptures, and decorative art objects from the Palace Museum, Beijing (known… Read More
Painter and Poet: the Art of Ashley Bryan at Portland Museum of Art (PMA), August 3 – November 25, 2018
“Painter and Poet: the Art of Ashley Bryan is the first major art museum exhibition in Maine for the award-winning 95-year-old artist and Little Cranberry Island resident, a pioneer of African and African American representation in the children’s book medium, who has published more than 50… Read More
Masterpieces & Curiosities: Elaine Lustig Cohen at The Jewish Museum, August 17, 2018 – August 11, 2019
“Masterpieces and Curiosities: Elaine Lustig Cohen features over 30 works by the pioneering graphic designer and artist. One of seven sections that make up the Jewish Museum’s third floor collection exhibition, Scenes from the Collection, ‘Masterpieces and Curiosities’ offers an in-depth examination of a single… Read More
Constantin Brancusi Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, July 22, 2018 – February 18, 2019
“Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) first exhibited his sculpture in New York at the 1913 Armory Show, alongside work by Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other vanguard artists. The presentation of international modern art was met with fanfare, and Brancusi’s sculptures were later singled out… Read More
Iridescence at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, through March 24, 2019
“The term iridescence derives from Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow, and refers to a vibrant optical effect of rainbow-like colors that change in the light. Found on pearls and insect wings, iridescence draws from and celebrates the natural world’s multidimensional colors and organic… Read More
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