“The Rubin Museum of Art presents the third exhibition in its Year of Power programming, Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance. The exhibition brings together 10 contemporary artists living and working in the United States and internationally whose works poetically employ non-conformity and… Read More
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Novecento: Nuovi Percorsi at Museo del Novecento, Milan, from February 23, 2019
The Museo del Novecento in Milan inaugurated the new galleries dedicated to Marino Marini and new thematic itineraries that focus on art from the 1960s to the 1980s, with the installation of 122 works by 56 artists, and a new educational workshop. Novecento: Nuovi Percorsi… Read More
Giacometti at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 8 – September 12, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “A preeminent artist of the twentieth century, Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) investigated the human figure for more than forty years. This comprehensive exhibition, a collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, examines anew the artist’s practice and the unmistakable aesthetic vocabulary he developed through his experiments… Read More
Elliott Erwitt: Pittsburgh 1950 at International Center of Photography (ICP), May 23 – September 2, 2018
“In 1950 Elliott Erwitt, then just twenty-two years old, set out to capture Pittsburgh’s transformation from an industrial city into a modern metropolis. Commissioned by Roy Stryker, the mastermind behind the large-scale documentary photography projects launched by the US government during the Great Depression, Erwitt… Read More
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment at International Center of Photography (ICP), May 23 – September 2, 2018
“Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment examines Cartier-Bresson’s influential publication, widely considered to be one of the most important photobooks of the twentieth century. Pioneering for its emphasis on the photograph itself as a unique narrative form, The Decisive Moment was described by Robert Capa as… Read More
Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman at The Morgan Library & Museum, May 18 – September 23, 2018
“Best known for his rich, colorful paintings of cakes, ice cream cones, and candy counters, California artist Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman since he began his career as an illustrator and cartoonist. Featuring subjects that range from deli counters… Read More
Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II at International Center of Photography, January 26 – May 6, 2018
“Seventy-six years ago, in the name of national security, the US government incarcerated 120,000 American citizens and legal residents without due process and absent the constitutional protection to which they were entitled. Following Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, the… Read More