April 2, 2010
“Remember That You Will Die: Death Across Cultures explores the concepts of death and the afterlife in the European and Himalayan traditions from about the fourteenth century to the present…”
“The transitional states between death and either the attainment of spiritual enlightenment or the return to the cycle of rebirth are explored in Bardo: The Tibetan Art of the Afterlife…”
“Visions of the Cosmos juxtaposes Eastern and Western conceptions of the universe through approximately 70 works, including sculptures, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, rare books and prints from American and European collections, and photographs of the galaxies taken largely by the Hubble Space Telescope…”
The Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
March 16, 2010
The Drawings of Bronzino
January 20, 2010–April 18, 2010
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 9, 2010
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
The Museum of Modern Art
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010
>> moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/303
January 2, 2010
Below are a few of the works I found most intriguing at the Hanging Fire exhibition at the Asia Society.
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Asia Society, New York
December 30, 2009
“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes… Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas.” – Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
October 21, 2009 – January 10, 2010
2010 Philadelphia Museum of Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (about 1902–1948), a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art. This exhibition, which includes about 178 works of art, surveys Gorky’s entire career from the early 1920s until his death by suicide in 1948. The retrospective includes paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings—some of which are being shown for the first time—and reveals Gorky’s development as an artist and the evolution of his singular visual vocabulary and mature painting style.
November 29, 2009
Kandinsky
Guggenheim Museum
September 18, 2009–January 13, 2010
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With Black Arch, Oil on canvas, 1912
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Thirty, Oil on canvas, 1937
November 8, 2009
Satan Smiting Job with Boils
Pen and black ink, gray wash, and watercolor, over traces of graphite
Job’s Sons and Daughters Overwhelmed by Satan
Pen and black ink, gray wash, and watercolor, over traces of graphite
William Blake’s World: “A New Heaven Is Begun”
The Morgan Library and Museum
September 11, 2009, through January 3, 2010
November 7, 2009
I checked out a few artists studios in the Flatbush Artists Studio Tour. The artist I found most interesting was Paul Catalanotto.
October 25, 2009
“There are two Georgia O’Keeffes. They’re closely related, but one is far more interesting than the other. Not so interesting, except maybe as a marketing phenomenon, is the post-1930s cow-skull painter and striker of frontier-priestess poses. More interesting, and less familiar, is the artist found in “Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction,” a vivid and surprisingly surprising show of more than 130 paintings and drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art.” – Holland Cotter
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
Whitney Museum of American Art
September 17, 2009–January 17, 2010
“Remember That You Will Die: Death Across Cultures explores the concepts of death and the afterlife in the European and Himalayan traditions from about the fourteenth century to the present…”
