2010-06-30

U.S.A. - FORTH WORTH-TEXAS - CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT: ABSTRACT ART IN SOUTH AND NORTH AMERICA, 1920-1950


Featuring approximately eighty seldom-seen paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings, and films, this exhibition juxtaposes the work from artists of the Americas, providing a fresh and innovative look at this dynamic and cosmopolitan period of modernism.
Constructive Spirit features several works by artists represented in the Amon Carter Museum’s permanent collection, such as Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, and Louise Nevelson. Other artists in the exhibition include Joaquín Torres-García, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Arshile Gorky. The exhibition is a first-time chance for Carter patrons to understand the conceptual and aesthetic parallels that linked artists across the Americas.
This exhibition was organized by the Newark Museum with major support by the Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Johnson & Johnson, and the Consulate General of Brazil in New York.
The local presentation of this exhibition is supported in part by the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County and The Eugene McDermott Foundation. Promotional support is provided by Star-Telegram, WFAA, and American Airlines.



Amon Carter Museum 26.06.2010 - 05.09.2010





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2010-06-23

U.S.A. - DOYLESTOWN-PENNSYLVANIA - ICONS OF COSTUME: HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN ERA AND BEYOND


Icons of Costume: Hollywood's Golden Era and Beyond features the fashions and accessories worn by luminous film stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Audrey Hepburn, Warren Beatty, Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Kelly, Loretta Young, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many others. More than 50 costumes and objects present the still-influential designs of celebrated fashion designers, from the 1940s through the 1990s, including Edith Head, Adrian, Walter Plunkett, Orry-Kelly, Bob Mackie and others of legendary renown. Drawn, in part, from numerous films that were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume, six of them took the Oscar home. Also included are rare publicity stills, lobby cards, jewelry, and film props, as well as an exciting interactive component that lets visitors experience the sights and sounds of the movie studio as well as be a star in their own film scene. Rounding out the exhibition is an hour-long video of 35 memorable clips from films with a distinct Bucks County connection, such as Casablanca, Lassie Come Home, On the Waterfront, West Side Story, The Buddy Holly Story, and A Star is Born.
According to the exhibition's curator, Erika Jaeger-Smith, "These costumes are remarkable survivals, and their impact on today's fashions is immediately recognizable. The unique aspect of this exhibition is its concentration on the early years in Hollywood."



James A. Michener Art Museum 17.04.2010 - 05.09.2010




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2010-06-16

U.S.A. - BERKELEY-CALIFORNIA - NATURE INTO ACTION: HANS HOFMANN


Drawn from the Berkeley Art Museum’s extensive collection of works by the influential painter and teacher Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), Nature into Action is inspired by an article by the prominent art critic Harold Rosenberg, written on the occasion of Hofmann’s retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1957. “No American artist,” Rosenberg wrote, “can mount a show of greater coherent variety than Hans Hofmann. Fed by his tireless consciousness, constantly growing more concrete and inwardly responsive, his originality suggests no limits.” Rosenberg identified the importance of nature as an enduring source in Hofmann’s work, importantly leading to automatism—noting that Hofmann was one of the first American painters to practice this method—and on to action as the method of his creation.
The year after Rosenberg’s article was published, Hofmann would close his famed schools, after four decades of teaching in Europe and the United States, to devote himself full-time to his own studio practice. His artistic production and experimentation, which had been prodigious throughout his years of teaching, blossomed in full from the later 1950s until his death in 1966.


Berkeley Art Museum 03.02.2010 - 29.08.2010


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2010-06-09

U.S.A. - ANCHORAGE-ALASKA - (RE)EMERGENCE: CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART AND DESIGN


Some Alaska Native art speaks of cultural heritage in a whisper; some calls out in a loud, clear voice. But on some level, all the art in the (Re)Emergence exhibition celebrates what it means to be Native today.
(Re)Emergence: Contemporary Native Art and Design from the Anchorage Museum Collection is on view through Dec. 31. The exhibition features nearly 50 art works created during the past five decades by Alaska Native artists such as James Robert Schoppert, Alvin Amason and Preston Singletary.
The exhibition is flush with examples of Native artists transcending traditional media while embracing the past and initiating cultural renewal. For instance, Lawrence Beck’s metallic mask is sculpted from a hubcap, bicycle handle bars and dentist mirrors. Or there is Sonya Kelliher-Combs’ Idiot Strings IV, a thoroughly modern, ceiling-mounted installation fashioned from natural materials such as walrus stomach and rawhide.
Situated adjacent to the artifacts in the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, this contemporary art exhibition provides profound perspective on change and continuity in Alaska Native art.




Anchorage Museum 22.05.2010 - 31.12.2010




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2010-06-02

U.S.A. - COOPERSTOWN-NEW YORK - JOHNSINGER SARGENT: PORTRAITS IN PRAISE OF WOMEN


The Fenimore Art Museum is proud to present the first museum exhibition devoted exclusively to portraits of women by American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). "John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women breaks new ground in several ways," commented Dr. Paul S. D'Ambrosio, Vice President and Chief Curator and exhibition organizer. "It is the first exhibition to directly compare the varied attributes of the women Sargent portrayed and the visual strategies employed by the artist to communicate those characteristics. Lastly, paired with the Museum’s new exhibition Empire Waists, Bustles and Lace, the first exhibition of the Museum’s collection of historic costumes, the Sargent exhibition will be the first to allow visitors to see and experience broader historical context of women’s fashion." Included will be drawings of Madame Gautreau, the mysterious subject of Sargent's famous portrait Madame X.



Fenimore Art Museum 29.05.2010 - 31.12.2010




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