ANNUAL WHITNEY ISP EXHIBITION, S/N, GOES ON VIEW MAY 22 AT THE KITCHEN
Photo: Film still of Lis Rhodes, Dresden Dynamo, 1971-72, 16mm, color, sound, 5 mins. From May 22 to June 13, 2015, the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program presents S/N, curated by...
View ArticleArchibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist at The Whitney Museum of American Art
The most eye-opening take-away I got from attending the preview of (both) the new Whitney Museum of American Art in downtown Manhattan (99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY 10014, (212) 570-3600,...
View Article“Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Throughout his career, the celebrated American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) created exceptional portraits of artists, writers, actors, dancers, and musicians, many of whom were his close...
View ArticleTHE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ACQUIRES COMPLETE SET OF AUGUST SANDER’S LANDMARK...
August Sander, German, 1876–1964Artists’ Carnival in Cologne, 1931 from People of the 20th Century: FestivitiesThe Museum of Modern Art, New YorkAcquired through the generosity of the Sander family The...
View ArticleTHE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART TO PRESENT MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE OF DONALD JUDD IN 2017
“I made my work to be intelligible to me, with the casual assumption that if it made sense to me, it would to someone else.” —Donald Judd, “Art and Architecture,” 1983 In the fall of 2017, The Museum...
View ArticleASIAN ART MUSUEM PRESENTS “LOOKING EAST: HOW JAPAN INSPIRED MONET, VAN GOGH,...
Asian Art Museum presents European, American, and Japanese masterpieces in exhibition exploring the impact of Japan on Western artists. Japan’s opening to international trade in the 1850s after...
View ArticleTrevor Bell: Thrust Comes To New York City
This June, Waterhouse & Dodd (960 Madison Avenue, 2nd FL, New York, NY 10021, (212) 717-9100, newyork@waterhousedodd.com ) brings to New York a major show by Trevor Bell, one of Britain’s greatest...
View ArticleAsian Art Museum Continues Summer Celebration of Contemporary Chines Art
The Asian Art Museum continues its summer of contemporary art with an array of public programs mostly exploring the topics addressed in 28 Chinese, on view until August 16. – On Thursday, July 2,...
View ArticleTHE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART PRESENTS ANYWHERE IN TIME: A CONLON...
Location: Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Theater Since his death in 1997, the music of Conlon Nancarrow, which borrowed both from boogie-woogie and the atonal avant-garde, has grown in...
View ArticleAmerica Is Hard to See: Film & Video Screenings at The Whitney Museum of...
As part of the landmark exhibition America Is Hard to See, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents a screening series showcasing films and videos from the Museum’s collection by approximately fifty...
View ArticleChina: Through the Looking Glass Exhibition Extended through September 7 at...
Gallery View: Anna Wintour Costume Center, Imperial ChinaPhoto: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery View: Chinese Galleries, Astor Forecourt, Anna May WongEvening dress, John Galliano (British,...
View ArticleCostume Institute’s Fall Exhibition to Focus on Fashion Icon Jacqueline de...
The Costume Institute’s Fall 2015 exhibition, Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style, will focus on the internationally renowned style icon Countess Jacqueline de Ribes, whose originality and elegance...
View ArticleSneakerhead Alert: The Rise of Sneaker Culture at The Brooklyn Museum
From their modest origins in the mid-nineteenth century to high-end sneakers created in the past decade, sneakers have become a global obsession. The Rise of Sneaker Culture (July 10–October 4, 2015,...
View ArticleWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART RECEIVES MULTI-YEAR GIFT TO EXPAND ITS...
It was announced that The Whitney Museum of American Art has received a $2 million gift from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to support its award-winning education programs. Over the next...
View ArticleComing Soon to The Museum at FIT: Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne...
Susanne Bartsch with Gage of the Boone, 2013. Photo © Wilsonmodels. Susanne wearing a dress by Rachel Auburn, Liberty Theatre in Times Square, 2014. Photo by Robin Souma. The Museum at FIT presents...
View Article“MATANA ROBERTS: I CALL AMERICA” AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
As part of The Whitney Museum of American Art‘s Performance Program, Chicago–born, New York City–based sound experimentalist Matana Roberts is currently engaging in a series of open-ended public...
View ArticleNational Geographic Live Announces Fall 2015 Season Lineup. Season Includes...
Hear explorers’ thrilling reports from the field, be inspired by National Geographic photographers, go on assignment with a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and experience the excitement of...
View ArticleThe Whitney Museum OF American Art To Debut Frank Stella: A Retrospective,...
The most comprehensive career retrospective in the U.S. to date of the work of Frank Stella, co-organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, will debut at...
View ArticleEmerging Filmmaker Alex Ross Perry Celebrated With Museum of Moving Image...
Museum of the Moving Image to screen the director’s four features, including his newest, Queen of Earth, with Perry and star Elisabeth Moss in person, August 22–25, 2015 Director, screenwriter and...
View ArticleFirst Look: Collecting Contemporary At The Asian
The Asian Art Museum–Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco —well known for its vast collection of Asian art antiquities—will surprise visitors this fall with its second of two...
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