2016-08-31

2211 - 20161030 - U.S.A. - PRINCETON - NEW JERSEY - A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art - 30.07.2016-30.10.2016

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Kehinde Wiley, American, born 1977, Naomi and Her Daughters, 2013. Oil on canvas, 299.7 × 255.3 × 10.2 cm. Nasher-Haemisegger Collection. © Kehinde Wiley Studio.


A Material Legacy brings together many of the most exciting artists of the past decade to illuminate the material impulse found in contemporary art practices. Nearly all made within the last ten years, and many in the last several years, the works in the exhibition provide a fresh view into art making in the twenty-first century and include globe-spanning artists from North America to Chile and India. The daughter and son-in-law of legendary sculpture collectors Ray and Patsy Nasher, Nancy Nasher and her husband David Haemisegger have continued a family tradition by amassing a significant collection of contemporary art that sustains an interest in three-dimensional work while incorporating painting, drawing, and multimedia works, often at enormous scale. A Material Legacy reveals the various ways in which the featured artists manifest a material tendency—as seen in the precise calculations of Sol LeWitt, the surface brilliance and technical bravura of Anish Kapoor, the historically resonant and politically charged work of Kara Walker, and the exuberant confrontation of Kehinde Wiley.

Drawn entirely from the collection of Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger, both members of the Class of 1976, the exhibition continues the Museum’s exploration and celebration in recent years of collections assembled by such distinguished Museum friends as Preston H. Haskell and Lenore and Herb Schorr.
 
A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art is organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in collaboration with the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibition at Princeton has been made possible with generous support from William S. Fisher, Class of 1979, and Sakurako Fisher; Christopher E. Olofson, Class of 1992; the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; Stacey Roth Goergen, Class of 1990, and Robert Goergen; Susan and John Diekman, Class of 1965; Doris Fisher; the Anne C. Sherrerd, Graduate School Class of 1987, Art Museum Fund; the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Exhibitions Fund; and the Sara and Joshua Slocum, Class of 1998, Art Museum Fund.  Additional support has been provided by the Partners of the Princeton University Art Museum.
 
 
 
 
Princeton University Art Museum - A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and
David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art - 30.07.2016-30.10.2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2016-08-24

2210 - 20161023 - U.S.A. - MILWAUKEE - WISCONSIN - From Rembrandt to Parmigianino: Old Masters from Private Collections - 29.07.2016-23.10.2016

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The age-old tradition of collecting European Renaissance and Baroque art began in the very years in which the artworks were created and continues unabated today, including here in Wisconsin and the surrounding region. Yet because many of these treasures are held in private collections, the public seldom, if ever, gets the occasion to see them. During this exclusive presentation, Museum visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy paintings and drawings by masters such as Rembrandt van Rijn and Parmigianino, selected from the rich collections that reside within only a few hundred miles of the Museum.

From Rembrandt to Parmigianino: Old Masters from Private Collections also marks the happy occasion of two recent gifts to the Museum from the great Milwaukee connoisseur and collector of old master paintings, Alfred Bader. Not only has Dr. Bader been a longtime supporter of the Museum, but over his lifetime, he has also assembled one of the great collections of Dutch and Flemish paintings—a generous number of which will be on view in the exhibition. These two recent gifts are by Jacopo Vignali (Italian, 1592–1664) and Onofrio Gabrielli (Italian, 1616–1706) and will soon have pride of place in the Collection Galleries.





Milwaukee Art Museum - From Rembrandt to Parmigianino: Old Masters from Private Collections  29.07.2016-23.10.2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2016-08-17

2209 - 20160925 - U.S.A. - LAGUNA BEACH - CALIFORNIA - Peter Krasnow: Maverick Modernist - 26.06.2016-25.09.2016

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Peter Krasnow Edward Henry Weston 1925, Oil on canvas, 50 x 38 inches, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist

Laguna Art Museum is proud to be organizing a comprehensive exhibition of the work of the Los Angeles artist Peter Krasnow (1886–1979).
Born in Ukraine, Krasnow immigrated to the United States in 1907 and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While in New York exhibiting at the Whitney Club, he met photographer Edward Weston and began a lifelong friendship. Krasnow and his wife Rose drove cross-country in 1922 to settle in Los Angeles, where he quickly became part of a small but active art community. His notable peers included Weston, fellow artists Henrietta Shore, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Lorser Feitelson, and Helen Lundeberg, and architects Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra.

Krasnow’s early works, largely realist portraits and symbolic carved sculptures, are accomplished examples of social realism and Art Deco. His “Demountables” of the 1930s and 40s—hand-carved wood sculptures assembled from interlocking component parts—are organic abstractions drawing on traditions of folk and tribal art. His abstract paintings, whose bright, synthetic colors he chose to contrast with the dark political realities of the 1940s, are schematic tableaux that employ calligraphic symbols referencing spiritual ideas and organic processes. In both sculpture and painting, Krasnow developed styles that have surprising contemporary currency.

Featuring approximately fifty paintings and twenty sculptures, Peter Krasnow: Maverick Modernist is the first museum survey of the artist’s work in almost forty years. It features works on loan from public and private collections all over the country, as well as selections from Laguna Art Museum’s own extensive holdings. It will be accompanied by a full-length catalogue, the first monograph to be devoted to the artist. Organized by Laguna Art Museum, the exhibition is curated by Michael Duncan, independent curator and corresponding editor of Art in America. Duncan has curated and co-curated over thirty exhibitions, most recently An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 2013 (awarded Best Thematic Exhibition Nationally by the International Association of Art Critics, United States); and LA RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945–1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2012.





Laguna Art Museum - Peter Krasnow: Maverick Modernist - 26.06.2016-25.09.2016





 
 
 
 

2016-08-10

2208 - 20161010 - U.S.A. - BOSTON - MASSACHUSETTS - Year of the Monkey - 30.04.2016-10.10.2016

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Ogata Gekkō, Monkeys and Mount Fuji, Japanese, Meiji era, 1900s. Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper. Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich.

In honor of the Year of the Monkey in the East Asian calendar cycle, this exhibition of 56 works celebrates the important role of monkeys in Japanese culture. The Japanese macaque, a short-tailed monkey, is a common wild animal in Japan; and during the Edo Period (1615–1868), monkeys were often kept as pets. The most famous fictional monkey in Japan is a visitor from China, the Monkey King known as Son Gokū, a simian superhero who is the prototype of Gokū, the hero of the hit manga and anime series Dragon Ball.
The highlight of the show is a complete set of all 21 known designs in the color print series Journey to the West by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–92), published in 1864–65 and based on a popular Japanese translation of the 16th-century Chinese novel of the same name. The story of the brave but mischievous Monkey King, who uses his supernatural powers to help a Chinese Buddhist monk travel to India and back on a quest for precious Buddhist scriptures, became almost as popular in Japan as in China. The Monkey King was featured not only in book illustrations and prints, but in decorative art forms such as netsuke and tsuba (sword guards).
Another major source of monkey imagery was a traditional performing art still occasionally practiced today, in which costumed monkeys dance to the music provided by trainers who have raised them from infancy. On the kabuki stage, actors in monkey costumes imitated the monkeys who were imitating humans. At the same time, paintings and prints of the natural world included many vivid depictions of wild monkeys.
Also part of the show are Art Deco postcards for 1932, another Year of the Monkey; and images related to the famous Three Monkeys—See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Speak No Evil—whose names in Japanese are puns on the word for “monkey.”


 
Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Year of the Monkey - 30.04.2016-10.10.2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2016-08-03

2207 - 20161002 - U.S.A. - GLENS FALLS - NEW YORK - Dürer & Rembrandt: Master Prints from the Collection of Dr. Dorrance Kelly - 10.07.2016-02.10.2016

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This exhibition will feature a selection of superb engravings and woodcuts by the German printmaker, Albrecht Dürer, and exceptional etchings by the Dutch Master, Rembrandt van Rijn, along with the printed works of their contemporaries including Lucas van Leyden, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hendrik Goudt, Hendrik Goltzius, Adriaen van Ostade, and Jan Muller.
Dr. Dorrance Kelly has assembled one of the most distinguished private collections of prints in the country. The exhibition will feature more than 70 works from his collection. It provides an unparalleled opportunity for visitors to observe both the religious and secular works of these great masters while considering the historical contexts, religious backgrounds, and aesthetic approaches of each of the artists.



The Hyde Collection - Dürer & Rembrandt: Master Prints from the Collection of Dr. Dorrance Kelly - 10.07.2016-02.10.2016