Last art exhibition you visited?

[mjazzg]

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

Heard good things about that exhibition. I recently saw some Frosts at Abbot Hall in Kendal. Their St Ives show is small but perfectly formed. There's another one on at Pallant House in Chichester which I hope to see soon - easier than Leeds

[alankin]

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

Interesting.  I'll have to look him up.

[Larry Kart]

Just got back from London, where I paid my first visit to the Wallace Collection. Wow.

 

This "Cupid and Pysche" from the Collection just blew my mind:

http://www.wallacecollection.org/whatson/treasure/74

 

My close-up is below.

Edited August 5, 2015 by Larry Kart

[Larry Kart]

This Vuillard at the National Gallery, "Madame Wormser and Her Children," also was a mind blower:

Edited August 5, 2015 by Larry Kart

[ejp626]

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. 

Sounds terrific.  Wish I could make it, but know that I can't.  I did, however, see a massive Caillebotte exhibit in 1995 or so.

I have to admit, the current exhibit at the AGO (Picturing the Americas) leaves me cold.  I found very little of interest until the last room or two where it moves away from traditional landscape painting.

On the other hand, I was just in Ottawa and saw Marc Chagall: Daphnis and Chloe at the National Gallery, which I thought was pretty fascinating.  It appears they managed to put all the plates from a complete edition up on the walls:

http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/exhibitions/current/details/chagall-daphnis-chloe-8754

[mjazzg]

Agnes Martin retrospective at Tate Modern

I knew next to nothing about her or her work before entering the galleries. I came away spellbound, clutching the catalogue to learn more. Works of great rigour and beauty

[mjazzg]

Joseph Cornell - Wanderlust. Royal Academy of Arts

a very thought provoking introduction to this artist's work. Certainly left me wanting to know more about the man behind the art. With my post above it seems that this summer is one of discovery of American artists whom I feel I should have already known more than I did

Last weekend. A trip to Tate Liverpool to see Jackson Pollock - Blind Spots

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/jackson-pollock-blind-spots

Well I knew plenty about this artist but the focus on the later works provided a good show (and Liverpool's always worth a visit)

[ejp626]

Just stopped by the Milwaukee Art Museum.  The main collection is all being reinstalled, but they have a pretty great special exhibit from the Albright-Knox Museum.  It runs through Sept. 20.

[Leeway]

Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael (1566–1638)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

            

I found the exhibition devoted to this Utrecht Mannerist painter quite fascinating. This review from the NY Times gives a good idea of what Wtewael's work is like:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/arts/design/review-joachim-wtewaels-provocative-and-puzzling-paintings-at-the-national-gallery.html?_r=0

 

[Leeway]

Made a quick trip up to NYC this weekend, and found time to take in the new and very hip Whitney, now located on the far lower west side of Manhattan, along the Green Line walkway. Great atmosphere in and around the museum, with lots of exciting design elements. I caught the newly opened Frank Stella retrospective, which was a real eye opener.  Had no idea that Stella produced such variegated work, but after moving through the exhibit several times, I stopped worrying about his seeming will o' the wisp quality and started enjoying--immensely-- the painterly quality and inventiveness of the work. A very enjoyable show. Plus there were some good selections from the permanent collection on view, as well as an exhibition"Archibald Motley, Jazz Age Modernist," which was interesting (Archibald was uncle to novelist Willard Motley).  Some Stella and Motley below. 

 

[danasgoodstuff]

Went to the Albright Knox when I was in Buffalo last week and was reminded that I once had a work exhibited there when I was in Kindergarten or 1st grade.

[ejp626]

I'm hoping to get to the Albright-Knox in Dec., but even more of a stretch goal is the Cleveland Art Museum, which has an interesting exhibit on how Monet and other impressionists and post-impressionists treated the garden as a subject.

I also saw the Motley exhibit in Chicago -- I liked it quite a bit.

I haven't seen this, though I feel that I have (and I will next year): Lawren Harris has an exhibit at the Hammer Museum in LA, which then moves to Boston and then finally Toronto.  I like Harris quite a bit, though I think they are looking at just a single aspect of his career, so it is not too surprising that some reviews are a bit dismissive.  I've blogged a bit about it here: http://erics-hangout.blogspot.ca/2015/10/lawren-harris.html

Finally, a solid exhibition on J.M.W. Turner just opened up in Toronto at the AGO.  I think it will be too crowded this weekend, but I will try to go soon afterwards.

[clifford_thornton]

Really looking forward to checking out the Stella retro - his work up through the early/mid 70s I absolutely love.

I think the last show I caught was Jurgen Teller at Zwirner maybe a week ago? His photographs mark a tense, quiet relationship between the personal and the political.

[ejp626]

Just back from Ottawa.  We saw a small, focused exhibit featuring 12 paintings by Monet, each including a bridge.  There is also a small exhibit by Mary Pratt that is worth seeing if you are in the area.

[mjazzg]

Peter Lanyon at Courtauld. Opened my eyes to his work.

also Bridget Riley/Seurat. Just six paintings making a very focussed connection

[johnblitweiler]

On 11/3/2015, 5:44:57, ejp626 said:

I also saw the Motley exhibit in Chicago -- I liked it quite a bit..

I really loved that Motley exhibit, which is apparently now traveling. Less fanciful, more (to me) American in style: the African-American artist Jacob Lawrence's roomful of 1940 Black Migration paintings at MoMA last summer - wonderful. Every schoolkid in America should be taught this history.

[David Ayers]

That would be Leap Before You Look, an exhibition of and about Black Mountain College, at Boston ICA, last week.

 

http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/leap-you-look-black-mountain-college-1933–1957

[mjazzg]

4 hours ago, David Ayers said:

That would be Leap Before You Look, an exhibition of and about Black Mountain College, at Boston ICA, last week.

 

http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/leap-you-look-black-mountain-college-1933–1957

for a moment there I was heading off to the Mall.......then I spotted 'Boston'. damn, not even Lincs either

[Tim McG]

Does a Quartet in Vienna playing Mozart in the Mozart House count?

Edited December 4, 2015 by Tim McG

[ejp626]

On 12/3/2015, 8:44:41, Tim McG said:

Does a Quartet in Vienna playing Mozart in the Mozart House count?

I actually did that on a visit to Vienna.  Very nice.

Anyway, I just saw the Turner exhibit at the AGO (in Toronto), but I'll need to go back.  It was still far too crowded to really get to see the pieces.  The crowds should die down in another month.  As it happens, I probably have seen all or virtually all of these pieces, since they are almost entirely drawn from the Tate Britain's Turner Wing, but it is still nice to see them again.

 

Just as a head's up, there will be a Stuart Davis exhibit at the Whitney this summer, and it goes to the National Gallery in the late fall/early winter.  http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/StuartDavis

I've basically decided I will travel to see it (Davis is in my top 10 and I don't think I've ever seen an exhibit solely decided to him), so I just need to work out some details a bit closer to the time.

[ejp626]

3 hours ago, BFrank said:

That would be nice to see. Any other scheduled exhibitions besides NYC and London? It would be nice if it makes a West Coast stop.

It doesn't look like it, sorry.  And the National Gallery is in DC, so it is an East Coast only show.

I suspect there will be a catalog attached to the show, but it definitely isn't the same as being there.

Edited December 5, 2015 by ejp626

[mjazzg]

9 hours ago, BFrank said:

Ohhhh, I thought it was London. I'll put it on the calendar and maybe we can schedule an East Coast trip then.

and I got all excited because you thought it was London. Don't think I'll be making the trip 

[niels]

Spanish Masters at the Hermitage in Amsterdam yesterday. With works of El Greco, Ribera, Velázquez, Goya, and others. This was quite spectacular as these paintings are not often showed in the Netherlands.  

[mjazzg]

2 hours ago, niels said:

Spanish Masters at the Hermitage in Amsterdam yesterday. With works of El Greco, Ribera, Velázquez, Goya, and others. This was quite spectacular as these paintings are not often showed in the Netherlands.  

that sounds well worth the visit. the opening of the Hermitage's treasures to travel has certainly been a positive by product changes in Russia.

 

Yesterday I saw an excellent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, "Giacometti-Pure Presence" concentrating on his portraiture both painted and sculpted. Very in depth investigation of his approach to both and his artistic development over 50 years

[paul secor]

I'd like to see both of these exhibitions, but probably won't:

https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/leap-you-look-black-mountain-college-1933%e2%80%931957

http://images.mnuchingallery.com/www_mnuchingallery_com/Press_Release_Mnuchin_David_Hammons_Five_Decades.pdf

Actually, I will try to catch the David Hammons show in Manhattan.