The Surrealist Paintings of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy Shown Together at the Katonah Museum of Art

KATONAH, NY).- The Katonah Museum of Art takes visitors on a journey through the subconscious as it presents Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy. The exhibition is on view from June 5 through September 18, 2011. Organized in partnership with the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, Double Solitaire is the first major touring exhibition to explore the dynamic exchange of ideas that shaped the astonishing landscapes of these Surrealist artists and to reveal, [...]

Jennifer Bartlett Installs a Single Painting that Stretches More than 158 Feet at The Pace Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition by Jennifer Bartlett, who installed a single painting that stretches more than 158 feet along three gallery walls. Recitative, comprised of 372 steel plates, is an epic exploration of color, painted in a style reflecting the reductive language of Minimalism and the rule-based systems of Conceptualism. Recitative, 2009–10, is Jennifer Bartlett’s largest work to date in terms of running feet and her third large-scale painting. Recitative relates directly to Bartlett’s earlier [...]

Bold and Powerfully Inventive Artist Salvator Rosa Featured in Exhibition

LONDON.- Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was one of the boldest and most powerfully inventive artists and personalities of the Italian 17th century. He invented new types of painting: allegorical pictures, distinguished by a haunting and melancholy poetry; fanciful portraits of romantic and enigmatic figures; macabre and horrific subjects; philosophical subjects, which bring into painting some of the major philosophical and scientific concerns of his age. His early works, particularly the landscapes, are bright and rich in picturesque motifs – crumbling towers,boats [...]

Second Installment of the Wadsworth’s Contemporary Art Series Opens

HARTFORD, CT.- The return of the Wadsworth Atheneum’s MATRIX contemporary art series continues this summer with a new, site-specific installation by New York artist Justin Lowe, titled Werewolf Karaoke / MATRIX 159. Lowe’s exhibition is comprised of four interconnected rooms that reference aspects of the Wadsworth’s collection, such as the museum’s two period rooms, the Austin House, and the adjacent gallery of Surrealist paintings, while reflecting a more contemporary culture, rooted in 1970s psychedelia. The exhibition is on view through [...]

Art Exhibition Celebrates New Orleans Cultural History

HARTFORD, CT.- A new exhibition featuring the works of contemporary artists entitled, High Water Marks: Art & Renewal After Katrina, opened at The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The exhibition explores the legacy of Black artisans in New Orleans and the achievements of a range of artists who have documented the city’s devastation and are committed to the city’s recovery. High Water Marks is on view from May 1- September 19, 2010. [...]

MoMA Pays Tribute to Iris Barry, Its First Curator of Film, with Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- The establishment of The Museum of Modern Art‘s Department of Film, founded as the Film Library, began in 1933, when Iris Barry, the Museum’s first film curator, was challenged to organize a series of film programs to “test the waters” of public consumption. From May 10 through 24, 2010, MoMA honors Barry with Iris Barry: Re-View, an exhibition comprising films that Barry selected for a historic series of screenings at The Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, Connecticut) from October [...]

The Tradition of Male Homoerotic Art at Central Connecticut State University

Hartford, Connecticut – A new exhibit at a university gallery in New Britain brings to mind that the subject of male eroticism was once a police-busting taboo in America. On April 7, 1990, uniformed city and county lawmen entered the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati to halt the opening of the touring photography exhibit, ” Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment,” charging the museum and its director with presenting obscene works. Things went more smoothly at the show in Hartford six [...]