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9 minutes ago, Dave Garrett said:

Mark Rothko retrospective at its only US stop. Had been looking forward to this one all year, and it did not disappoint.

Also the same day, an exhibit of Dutch Renaissance painter Joachim Wtewael's works.

http://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/mark-rothko-retrospective/

http://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/pleasure-and-piety-art-joachim-wtewael/

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 :tup Rothko is one of my favorite artists - perhaps my favorite.

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I did make it to the Cleveland Museum of Art for its big impressionist show.  It was pretty incredible.  Some images and musings here: http://erics-hangout.blogspot.ca/2015/12/monet-exhibit-in-cleveland.html

Unfortunately, tickets are sold out for the rest of the run (one more week).  I think even if you are a member of the museum, it is too late to get in now.

I've gone a couple of times to the Turner show at the AGO.  It is good, though many of the best paintings didn't leave the Tate.  Still worth seeing of course.  I'll probably go one more time.

It isn't guaranteed, but it looks like they will be republishing the Archibald Motley catalog, which had gone OOP, so I've put in an order on Amazon.  While I was browsing, they recommended a new Norman Lewis catalog called Procession.  I like Normal Lewis, so I think I'll order that as well.  This led me to look into the related exhibit, which is running at PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts).  More information here: https://www.pafa.org/normanlewis

While I would love to visit Philadelphia, I doubt very much I can get there before the summer, by which time the exhibit will be in Ft. Worth.  I'm a bit bummed out that the touring schedule isn't flipped, since I will be going to Chicago in the summer, but I suppose I can find an excuse to travel to Chicago in the late fall next year.  I'm sure my wife would appreciate it if we went around Thanksgiving -- or even the week before or after just to save a bit on airline tickets.  (It is worth noting this is a big exhibit -- 90 paintings -- and while the upper floor of the Chicago Cultural Center can hold a lot of art -- they still might have to trim it back a bit.  Nonetheless, I just can't see making it to Phily this spring.)

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On 1/1/2016 at 6:43 PM, paul secor said:

 :tup Rothko is one of my favorite artists - perhaps my favorite.

I've been fortunate to have had ready access to the Rothko Chapel for many years (I lived in close proximity to it for most of the 1980s and 1990s), but it's rare to be able to see a significant aggregation of representative works from every phase of his career under one roof. It was definitely one of the more memorable exhibits I've been to in quite some time. 

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Yeah the Rothko exhibition in Houston is excellent.

Stella retro at the Whitney did not disappoint - went yesterday, and was more impressed by the arc of his post-70s work than I expected to be, given that most of my interest has been in his stripe, irregular polygon and protractor paintings. The Motley show was also excellent. 

Alberto Burri at the Guggenheim was also fantastic, despite the better efforts of the space and clientele to get in the way of some truly fascinating art.

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On 1/26/2016 at 7:53 AM, Cyril said:

The Karel Appel exhibition in The Hague.  Appel is perhaps the most renowned Dutch artist of the latter half of the twentieth century....

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Cobra is just one of the many aspects of Apple’s work.

 

 
 
 
 

Always very partial to the European equivalent to abstract expressionism from the 50s. Largely a forgotten area, so was pleased when Manchester Art Gallery came up with a COBRA exhibition a few years ago.

http://www.codart.com/exhibitions/details/523/

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I/we went to Manchester Art Gallery yesterday. The usual stuff really, though there was a robot roaming around one gallery, and some digital art which I didn't much care for. There were a couple of impressive ceramic pieces, including one by Grayson Perry, which my wife spotted straight away.

Actually, there was a sculpture by Antony Gormley (he of "The Angel of the North" and the "Another Place" sculptures) suspended from the roof, now I remember.

Oooh, not an art exhibition, but this was on display in Manchester Cathedral, which was also part of my mooch around the city yesterday.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/international-womens-day-2016-melted-guns-sculpture-manchester-peace-activist-dr-erinma-1548178

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35 minutes ago, BillF said:

I was last in Manchester Art Gallery a few weeks ago. Particularly liked this Francis Bacon, which I don't remember seeing before:

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I missed that yesterday. In fact, I think I we missed a good portion of the exhibitions as we got there not long before chucking-out time. 

Shame, I like Francis Bacon. I wonder if it will still be there in six months when we next go to town! 

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49 minutes ago, rdavenport said:

I missed that yesterday. In fact, I think I we missed a good portion of the exhibitions as we got there not long before chucking-out time. 

Shame, I like Francis Bacon. I wonder if it will still be there in six months when we next go to town! 

As it belongs to the gallery, it should still be there - providing the Council hasn't been forced to sell it to stay afloat!

http://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-independent/20160312/281479275518501

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Interesting reading that. The Durham Light Infantry Museum shuts in two weeks - that was my dad's regiment during his National Service.

I promised my son a trip to the Football Museum, so I'm sure I'll be back in the city soon. 

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It's been a whirlwind week at NYC and Boston museums.  I made a trip to the Met, and enjoyed it very much, though this is one of the first times that the special exhibits didn't grab me, and I stayed almost entirely in the main galleries.  I guess you could call the exhibit on Modernism in the 20th C Galleries a special exhibit.  There is a room with a newly rediscovered mural by Thomas Hart Benton: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/thomas-hart-benton

Unfortunately, most of my photos didn't turn out that well.  Also, I did not see that Bulletin in the gift shop.  I'll almost certainly be coming back to NY this summer (for the Stuart Davis show at the Whitney) and while the Benton mural will be gone, I should be able to grab the Bulletin.

I'm going to be honest and say I was horribly disappointed with the Brooklyn Museum.  The special exhibit on Coney Island was ok, but the entire American collection was off-view and 90% of the European paintings.  What a complete waste of time.

The MoMA was entertaining as always, and the special exhibit on Jackson Pollack was pretty good.  I was a bit disappointed that the Max Beckmann triptych was off-view, though they did have Rosenquist's F-111 on-view, which is not displayed that often.

Last night I was at the Boston MFA and enjoyed seeing the art there, along with the special exhibit on Lawren Harris.

We'll probably see the Harvard Museums of Art today and end with the Isabella Gardner Museum tonight with its evening hours.

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I just saw the Van Gogh's Bedrooms show in Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/van-goghs-bedrooms

It's a very focused though worthwhile show, though there are maybe 30 Van Gogh paintings aside from the 3 bedroom scenes.  The crowds are the heaviest in the morning (since they are telling everyone to show up early!) and then they thin out a bit, then get heavier in the afternoon.  It will probably be crazy in mid May right before it closes, so my advice would be to go in April if possible.  In addition, there is that AirBnB room that looks just like Van Gogh's room.  I'm sorry I didn't have a chance to check that out.

There is so much amazing art to see at the Art Institute that it is always worth the trip.

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I went to Sheffield's Millenium Gallery today, where I took in the "Ruskin, Creativity and Craftsmanship" exhibition. Some impressive metalwork (Sheffield being the steel city and all), another Grayson Perry pot and a Tracy Emin blanket among others.

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9 hours ago, rdavenport said:

I went to Sheffield's Millenium Gallery today, where I took in the "Ruskin, Creativity and Craftsmanship" exhibition. Some impressive metalwork (Sheffield being the steel city and all), another Grayson Perry pot and a Tracy Emin blanket among others.

You should have waved. I wandered by a couple of times on my way to/from the Showroom Cinema by the station! 

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11 hours ago, rdavenport said:

You weren't tempted in? 

I've lived 16 miles away for 25 years and have never been! On the cards for some point in the near future. I was at lunchtime and evening concerts in The Crucible a couble of weeks back and had a large hole in between - nearly went then, but the weather was so lovely I headed for the hills. Now if it had been today....

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