The Whitney to Present Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time

NEW YORK, NY.- As American artists rebelled against the academic art and aristocratic portraiture that predominated at the turn of the twentieth century, they began looking to modern life for their subject matter. One of central figures in this dramatic shift was Edward Hopper, whose work is exhibited in relation to his most important contemporaries in Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on October 28, 2010. Placing Hopper beside such artists [...]

Whitney Museum Extends John Jonas Gruen Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Located in the Museum’s Lower Gallery, this exhibition of John Jonas Gruen’s portraits of notable artists, all of whom are represented in the Whitney’s collection, has been extended to September 5, 2010. The exhibition is curated by Elisabeth Sussman. Writing in the volume of photographs from which this exhibition takes its title, art historian Justin Spring notes: “John Jonas Gruen has made it his business to be in the right place at the right time. During his [...]

Whitney Announces First Major U.S. Retrospective of the Work of Paul Thek

NEW YORK, NY.- An artist who defies classification, Paul Thek (1933-1988), the sculptor, painter, and creator of radical installations who was hailed for his work in the 1960s and early 70s, then nearly eclipsed within his own short lifetime, is the subject of an upcoming retrospective co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Carnegie Museum of Art. Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the work of the legendary American [...]

Rockwell Group to Design New Cafe at the Whitney Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art has selected Rockwell Group for the architecture and design of its forthcoming cafe, created and operated by Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group, opening this winter. The yet-to-be-named cafe, located on the Whitney’s lower level, will be open for both Museum and non-museum visitors, serving breakfast and lunch daily, as well as dinner on most Saturdays and Sundays. While the concept is still being developed, the cafe will be seasonal and [...]

Retrospective of Influential Painter Alice Neel Opens at Whitechapel Gallery

LONDON.- The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major retrospective of influential 20th century American painter Alice Neel. Alice Neel (1900–1984) is best known for her portraits of celebrated artists and writers from New York, including Andy Warhol, Frank O’Hara, Meyer Shapiro and Linda Nochlin. A self-proclaimed ‘collector of souls’, she painted friends, family and neighbours in the Manhattan district of Spanish Harlem, delving into their personalities with rare frankness. Undeterred by a turbulent personal life that included a year of [...]

Christian Marclay: Festival to Be Presented at the Whitney

NEW YORK, NY.- Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955), known for the distinctive fusion of sound and image in his art, is the subject of a major exhibition this summer at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Activated by daily musical performances, the show explores Marclay’s approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his “graphic scores.” Approximately fifty renowned instrumentalists and vocalists, some of whom have collaborated regularly with the artist over the course of the past [...]

Brian Gross Fine Art Opens Ed Moses’ Airborne at One Post Street

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art presents Airborne, an exhibition of works by renowned California painter Ed Moses. On view will be selected works from a 2007 series that explores atmosphere and abstraction. Lush applications of paint in light, airy hues lend the paintings an ephemeral quality suggestive of mountain air and meteorological phenomena. Seen as a group, they describe a dynamic, vaporous, and sensually charged environment. Ed Moses was born in Long Beach, California, in 1926 and received [...]

Abstract Art in South and North America at the Amon Carter Museum

FORT WORTH, TX.- On June 26, the Amon Carter Museum presents Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to bring together South American and U.S. geometric abstraction and includes a range of paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings and films. Constructive Spirit will be on view through September 5; admission is free. Featuring 85 works by more than 65 abstract artists from Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela, this special [...]

Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy at Chicago’s MCA

CHICAGO, IL (AP).- Colorful mobiles made from boldly painted sheet metal and steel wires will dangle above visitors’ heads this summer as the Museum of Contemporary Art displays an exhibit of 60 works by Alexander Calder. But this Calder show, which debuts Saturday, doesn’t only feature the artist’s abstract pieces in the museum’s large, white main-floor gallery. In an equally large gallery across the way, dozens of works by young artists who have a Calderesque style are on view. The [...]

Major Survey of the Work of Charles Burchfield Opens at the Whitney

NEW YORK, NY.- This summer the Whitney Museum of American Art focuses on the work of the visionary artist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) in an exhibition curated by acclaimed sculptor Robert Gober. Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield features more than one hundred watercolors, drawings, and paintings from private and public collections, as well as selections from Burchfield’s journals, sketches, scrapbooks, and correspondence. Organized by the Hammer Museum, in collaboration with the Burchfield Penney Art Center in [...]

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Transforms with Abstract Works

SANTA FE, NM. (AP)- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has been transformed. Missing are the iconic paintings of flowers, bones and colorful landscapes that have made the American modernist famous the world over. In their place are streaks of yellow and red, brilliant pastel swirls, blocks of contrasting color and stark charcoal lines slicing across nearly bare sheets of paper. Cast aside any doubts, though. The museum hasn’t been taken over by another artist. These are in fact O’Keeffe’s. The museum [...]

DC Moore Gallery Celebrates Charles Burchfield’s Fifty Years as a Painter

NEW YORK, NY.- Rarely does the opportunity arise to see a wide range of work by Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), one of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century. This summer, viewers will be able to see his art in abundance in two concurrent exhibitions. On June 10, 2010, DC Moore Gallery is opening Charles Burchfield: Fifty Years as a Painter, an exceptional group of watercolors and drawings that span his fifty-year career. Many are from private collections and have [...]

Facing the Artist: Portraits by John Jonas Gruen Opens at the Whitney

NEW YORK, NY.- Writing in the volume of photographs from which this exhibition takes its title, art historian Justin Spring notes: “John Jonas Gruen has made it his business to be in the right place at the right time. During his many years in Manhattan, Gruen – critic, author, and keen cultural observer – has moved with ease among dancers, musicians, playwrights, and poets. He seems, however, to have reserved a special interest in painters and sculptors. Through the years, [...]

2010 No Dead Artists Exhibition Announces Arts Professionals as Jurors

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Three renowned arts professionals, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Fairfax Dorn and Donna Rosen, have been tapped to serve as jurors for the 14th annual No Dead Artists Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. All three have extensive experience as curators and collectors and all three have close ties to the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as a number of other well-known art museums and institutions. A presentation of ArtDaily.org and the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, this year’s NDA [...]

Moderna Museet Presents Paintings from the Last Five Decades by Ed Ruscha

STOCKHOLM.- Ed Ruscha, born in 1937, is an icon of modern art and exceedingly prolific to this day. His paintings are ambiguous and provocative, recycling scraps from popular culture and redefining established genres. Is he one of the first pop artists, a trail-blazer of conceptual art, a late surrealist, a pioneer of postmodernism, or a bit of everything, all rolled into one? Ed Ruscha started out in graphic design, photography and film-making; ever since he left the Midwest for California, [...]

Next Page »