The photographs of Brett Weston opens at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

KANSAS CITY, MO.- Over his long and prolific career, photographer Brett Weston (1911-1993) exemplified the modernist aesthetic. The son of famed photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958), Brett Weston was a “natural” with the camera: he was still a teenager when he first received high-level, international recognition as a creative artist. The Photographs of Brett Weston, Nov. 23, 2011, through April 1, 2012, at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, presents a condensed 40-print survey of his long and prolific career. While rare [...]

Cezanne’s Card Player Paintings to Be Shown at the Metropolitan Museum in NY

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- The largest collection of Paul Cezanne’s Card Player paintings to ever be exhibited together opens on Wednesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes three of five of the French master’s famous series depicting peasants of the Aix-en-Provence region in a monumental light rarely used to portray the working classes at the end of the 19th-century. Gary Tinterow, chairman of the museum’s department of 19th-century, modern and contemporary Art, described it as a landmark exhibition, the [...]

Landmark Exhibition of John Marin’s Revolutionary Watercolors in Major Art Institute Exhibition

CHICAGO, IL.- In 1948, a nationwide survey pronounced John Marin (1870–1953) “America’s Number 1 artist.” Marin’s exuberant and improvisational paintings are recognized today as critical to the evolution of American modernism. Less well known, though, is the extent to which Marin pushed the limits of the watercolor medium, establishing for a new generation of artists its inherent suitability to avant-garde expression. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized a major exhibition that is the first to explore this idea through close [...]

Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

SANTA MONICA, CA.- The Santa Monica Museum of Art presents Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains, the first American museum survey of work by this important and prolific artist. Through his drawings and constructions, Taylor (1948–1999) offers audiences new ways of seeing the world, and this landmark exhibition offers a similar discovery: A rare opportunity to explore the dialogue between his 2-D and 3-D works, and among works in each series, which was the artist’s main concern. Taylor died [...]

Pablo Picasso Zurich Exhibition Recreates Landmark 1932 Show

ZURICH (REUTERS) .- In September 1932, already a world-famous artist, Pablo Picasso drove from Paris to Zurich for the opening of a mega-exhibition of his works that was to mark a turning point in Western cultural history. Although he curated the exhibits himself and stayed at a luxury lakeside hotel nearby for two days, hobnobbing with art connoisseurs and critics, he mysteriously never went to see the show at the city’s Kunsthaus Museum. This autumn, and to celebrate its own centenary, [...]

Landmark Exhibition of German Artist Hans Hartung’s Late Paintings Opens at Cheim & Read

NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read presents a landmark exhibition of Hans Hartung’s late paintings, dating from 1987–1989. This is the first showing of Hartung’s works in New York since his controversial 1975 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and focuses on the artistic output of his last years of life. The show will be accompanied by a full color catalogue with an essay by Joe Fyfe.  Hans Hartung was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1904, but is often identified by [...]

Exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery Focuses on Cézanne’s Paintings of Card Players and Pipe Smokers

LONDON.- Paul Cézanne’s famous paintings of peasant card players and pipe smokers have long been considered to be among his most iconic and powerful works. This landmark exhibition, organised by The Courtauld Gallery in London and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is the first to focus on this group of masterpieces. Described by Cézanne’s early biographer, Gustav Coquiot, as being “equal to the most beautiful works of art in the world”, this is a unique opportunity to [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, Gift from the Artist to his Doctor

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of Francis Bacon’s Figure In Movement, the most significant painting by the British artist to appear at auction in several seasons, in its Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on 9 November 2010 in New York. The 1985 portrait of a man twisting and writhing, demonstrates the artist’s genius in painting the human figure in motion, and epitomizes the full spectrum of his legendary artistic technique. The monumental canvas was given by Bacon to his doctor [...]

Bronzino: Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici Opens at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence

FLORENCE.- Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino (1503-1572), was one of the greatest artists in the history of Italian painting. Court artist to Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574), his work embodied the sophistication of the Mannerist style. Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici, on view at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from 24 September 2010 to 23 January 2011, will be the very first exhibition devoted to his painted work. Bronzino conveyed the elegance of the [...]

Metropolitan Museum Announces Pablo Picasso Exhibition Drew 700,000 Visitors in 17 Weeks

NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that the landmark exhibition Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art drew 703,256 visitors during its 17-week presentation at the Museum ending Sunday—making it the most highly attended show since 2001. On view from April 19 through August 15, 2010, Picasso became the seventh most highly attended exhibition at the Metropolitan since the Museum first began tracking exhibition attendance nearly 50 years ago. It was the first exhibition to focus [...]

Nation’s Illustration Museum Celebrates 10th Anniversary

NEWPORT, RI.- On July 29th, the National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) celebrated its 10th Anniversary in grand Newport Gilded Age style, honoring Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Wolfe and the National Arts Club (NAC) with their inaugural American Civilization Award before 350 guests at Vernon Court. The evening began with viewing the landmark exhibition, Norman Rockwell and His Mentor: J.C. Leyendecker, a scholarly presentation delving into the amazing influence of Leyendecker on Rockwell’s oeuvre. Laurence Cutler, Chairman and Co-Founder of the [...]

300 Picasso Works in Metropolitan Museum’s Collection Featured in Landmark Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 300 works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), will provide an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the most important collections in the world of the artist’s work. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 27 through August 1, 2010, this is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the remarkable array of works by Picasso in the Met’s collection. The exhibition will reveal [...]

Discover America’s Roots In First-Ever Charles Deas Retrospective

DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) presents Charles Deas and 1840s America, the first retrospective of the decade-long career of Western American painter Charles Deas. Organized by the DAM and guest curator Carol Clark, Professor of Art History and American Studies at Amherst College, this landmark exhibition and accompanying catalogue will reconstruct the artist’s life and career, and reflect years of original scholarship. Bringing together for the first time twelve of his most important pieces and featuring 30 paintings [...]

aster Ink Painters in 20th-Century China at the Cantor Arts Center

STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents an exhibition that brings to the United States a rare and important group of 20th-century paintings by four Chinese modern masters. The exhibition “Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China” presents more than 110 works, in two rotations, February 17 through July 4, 2010. Admission is free. “This landmark exhibition illuminates a turning point in the development of Chinese ink painting during the 20th-century,” explained Dr. [...]

Phillips Collection Examines Georgia O’Keeffe from a Fresh Perspective

WASHINGTON, DC.- The artistic achievement of Georgia O’Keeffe is examined from a fresh perspective in Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, a landmark exhibition debuting this winter at The Phillips Collection. While O’Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been recognized as one of the central figures in 20th-century art, the radical abstract work she created throughout her long career has remained less well-known than her representational art. By surveying her abstractions, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction repositions O’Keeffe as one of America’s first and most daring abstract [...]

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