“In a major new exhibition opening this fall, the National Gallery of Art examines the beauty and depth of pastel, tracing its rich history from the Renaissance to the present day. The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art features some 70… Read More
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Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now) at The Met Breuer, March 21 – July 22, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, artists working in the Western classical tradition favored idealized statuary. Typically, marble sculptures of the flawless human form were set high on pedestals and made otherworldly by their lack of color. By contrast, within… Read More
Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, February 10 – September 6, 2017
“On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim features more than 170 modern objects from the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Assembling many of the foundation’s… Read More
Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty at The Museum of Modern Art, March 26, 2016 – July 24, 2016
“With the major exhibition Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, The Museum of Modern Art brings new focus to Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas’s (French, 1834–1917) extraordinary and rarely seen monotypes and their impact on his wider practice. It is the first exhibition in the U.S. in nearly… Read More