Last art exhibition you visited?

[ejp626]

Cézanne still lives? Wonderful!

(still-life-with-red-onions-1898)

That was not there either but it is pretty incredible. I think I'll add it to my blog post.

It was a nice show, though if I am being honest only 5 of the 19 blew me away (the later ones), but absolutely worth checking out, since I am figuratively down the street.

[Leeway]

I managed to squeeze in the Matisse Cut-Outs show at MOMA while I was up in NYC for the Winter Jazz Fest. I absolutely loved it. It's amazing how far Matisse was able to exploit that vein of creation. One contemporary critic of Matisse called them, dismissively, "amusements," but what's wrong with that? Bringing art and play together is no easy thing (Robert Frost talked about this), but quite wonderful when it occurs. The cut-outs became ever more ambitious and refined. Remarkable.

While I was waiting with my timed ticket to get in to the Matisse rooms, I took in a small exhibition in a nearby room, "The Forever Now." Found some quite interesting paintings.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1498#media_player/34/1

I particularly liked the Mary Weatherford, Julie Mehretu, and Richard Aldrich works. Ars long, vita brevis.

[BillF]

Cézanne still lives? Wonderful!

(still-life-with-red-onions-1898)

That was not there either but it is pretty incredible. I think I'll add it to my blog post.

I saw it in Paris in my youth. They used to have impressionists and post-impressionists in the Jeu de Paume. Don't know where they are now. It was very controversial with the art students to whom I taught art history and who were being taught to draw "correctly" :-)

[ejp626]

Cézanne still lives? Wonderful!

(still-life-with-red-onions-1898)

That was not there either but it is pretty incredible. I think I'll add it to my blog post.

I saw it in Paris in my youth. They used to have impressionists and post-impressionists in the Jeu de Paume. Don't know where they are now. It was very controversial with the art students to whom I taught art history and who were being taught to draw "correctly" :-)

If I recall a very small handful of French impressionists or really proto-impressionists are at the Louvre. Almost everything impressionist to say 1930s or early 40s is in Musee d'Orsay (which is where red onions is now) and then after that moves to the Pompidieu Centre with some exceptions. I believe cubists are mostly grouped with the contemporary art. And of course there are a bunch of other museums that break up this flow -- Ongeries, Museum of the city of Paris, etc. Never enough time when visiting Paris...

[ejp626]

I am back from the Basquiat exhibit at AGO. It was still really crowded. I guess crowds will thin out in another couple of weeks, and I'll go back then. It's basically a no-brainer to try to go if you are a big fan of Basquiat. I wouldn't say I am a fan, but it was interesting. I'd say they have 3 or 4 pieces that are really quite fine, and the rest I can pretty much take or leave. Many of the pieces have an epic scale that give them more presence than if they are just reproduced in a book, for example.

I may have already mentioned this, but Toronto also has the Spiegelman exhibit at the AGO, and split between the ROM and MOCCA, the Douglas Coupland exhibit has traveled here from Vancouver. So quite a bit of contemporary art on view.

[mjazzg]

Diebenkorn at the RA in London. Sumptuous

Not often I come away wishing the show was larger. Just three rooms. I'd been waiting nearly 20 years since the Whitechapel exhibition that introduced me to his work - it was great to be in a room with his work again

[BillF]

Diebenkorn at the RA in London. Sumptuous

Not often I come away wishing the show was larger. Just three rooms. I'd been waiting nearly 20 years since the Whitechapel exhibition that introduced me to his work - it was great to be in a room with his work again

Really like the work of Diebenkorn.

[mjazzg]

Diebenkorn at the RA in London. Sumptuous

Not often I come away wishing the show was larger. Just three rooms. I'd been waiting nearly 20 years since the Whitechapel exhibition that introduced me to his work - it was great to be in a room with his work again

Really like the work of Diebenkorn.

that's there. Oddly that repro makes a greater three dimensional impact than the original did on the wall. Also I've just realised, by checking the catalogue, that it's 24 years since the Whitechapel....how time flies when you're having fun

[paul secor]

Last week, we visited the latest exhibit at the Loeb Art Center at Vassar College - a collection of large scale paintings by Avery, Rothko, Joan Mitchell, Hedda Sterne, Poons, Nancy Graves, Christopher Winter, and others. A small exhibition, but well worth seeing.

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Blikvangers - a photo exhibit in The Hague (Eye Catchers) - National Archive

The Nationale Archive wanted to show some of their treasures by known and unknown photographers among their collection of 15 million photos.

This is just one example: a woman at the "smiling-school" in Budapest, Hungary.

http://nos.nl/data/image/2015/02/17/133309/xxl.jpg
unknown photographer 1937, source: The National Archive, The Hague

[BillF]

Here's one I'd like to see:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/27/sonia-delaunay-avant-garde-queen-art-fashion-vibrant-tate-modern

[mjazzg]

Here's one I'd like to see:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/27/sonia-delaunay-avant-garde-queen-art-fashion-vibrant-tate-modern

Absolutely. On my list, near the top

[alankin]

^^^ If I was across the pond, I'd try to see it (Sonia Delaunay).

Saw two gallery shows in Philadelphia yesterday.

Christine Lafaunte's painterly still lifes and landscapes at Gross McLeaf:

And Martha Groomes's geometric abstracts at Larry Becker. This one has an intriguing sense of space when seen in person:

[ejp626]

There's a nice but not life-changing exhibit of Emily Carr on at the AGO. I've seen a lot of Carr in my time, mostly out in Victoria and Vancouver, and it was nice that not every single painting in the exhibit was from collections out west. On the other hand, it all looks exactly the same -- tree forms and occasional totem poles.

A much more varied exhibit on American Modernism, drawn from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, is on at the Joslyn Museum, but you have to be in Omaha to see it. Probably not worth it for most of us...

[medjuck]

Ai Weiwei at Alcatraz. I can't imagine a better site specific show.

[mjazzg]

Here's one I'd like to see:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/27/sonia-delaunay-avant-garde-queen-art-fashion-vibrant-tate-modern

Absolutely. On my list, near the top

Made it. Stunning. A colour overload. I found the work with textiles some of the most rewarding. I'll be making a return trip to this one

[mikeweil]

Monet and the Impressionists at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. Link

Great opportunity for a German to see some of the US based paintings.

Edited May 26, 2015 by mikeweil

[sidewinder]

Off to check out the exhibition of 'Turner's Wessex' in Salisbury tomorrow. Salisbury Cathedral, Fonthill and Stourhead. Should be good !

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turners-wessex-architecture-and-ambition

Edited May 28, 2015 by sidewinder

[A Lark Ascending]

Off to check out the exhibition of 'Turner's Wessex' in Salisbury tomorrow. Salisbury Cathedral, Fonthill and Stourhead. Should be good !

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turners-wessex-architecture-and-ambition

I was there on Sunday - well worth the trip.

Nice book as well (which I restrained from buying).

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I'm in London for a few days in August so will pull in one or two visits to galleries. This is the one I particularly want to see:

Eric Ravillious at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2015/april/ravilious/?gclid=CPnni-yy5sUCFQTLtAodOHEAwg

I think one or two people here might have already been - I'm sure I've seen it mentioned.

Edited May 29, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[sidewinder]

Off to check out the exhibition of 'Turner's Wessex' in Salisbury tomorrow. Salisbury Cathedral, Fonthill and Stourhead. Should be good !

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turners-wessex-architecture-and-ambition

I was there on Sunday - well worth the trip.

Nice book as well (which I restrained from buying).

Change of plan - looks iffy weatherwise out there today so I'll defer it. Just down the road so no big deal and it looks as if it is 'on' until September. Good to hear that it lives up to expectations though and I might even be tempted to get the book !

Edited May 29, 2015 by sidewinder

[A Lark Ascending]

Throwing it down here - though Saturday is supposed to be good according to the weather forecast. I might do my long planned trip up to Haworth - I have the semaphore flags ready.

[sidewinder]

I might do my long planned trip up to Haworth - I have the semaphore flags ready.

Watch out for fascist car-park attendants !

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I went to the 'late Rembrandt' exhibition in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this month. It was beautiful. Very crowded exhibiton though since it was probably a once in a life time moment all of this work was brought together in this exhibiton. I plan to go to the Rijks again later this year to see the rest of the museum again with a bit fewer people there I hope.

[Leeway]

Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye

June 28 – October 4, 2015

 

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

 

I've always enjoyed Caillebotte, and this exhibit brings more Caillebotte together than I've seen before. Those off-angle paintings still produce a luscious vertigo. 

[BillF]

Terry Frost exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery today. I like those 1950s abstracts.