Exhibitions
The Louvre and the Masterpiece
High Museum of Art | 2008-12-06
Exhibitions | Great Shows Across the US
The Louvre and the Masterpiece will attempt to answer the question “what makes a masterpiece?” From the 91 works borrowed from the Louvre, spanning four millenia, the viewer himself will be able to create his own opinions on the matter.
Documenting Discovery: The Excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum
National Gallery of Art (DC) | 2008-12-05
Exhibitions | Great Shows Across the US
The ruins of the ancient cities tragically destroyed by the eruption of Mt.Vesuvius in AD 79 continue to excite our imagination just as they did when they were rediscovered in the eighteenth century. Assembled in the study center of the National Gallery of Art is a selection of works documenting the finds at two of the most important cites: Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective
MASS MoCA | 2008-12-05
Exhibitions | Great Shows Across the US
For six months, 65 artists and art students have been working on Sol LeWitt’s “A Wall Drawing Retrospective” which is now open to the public. This exhibition comprises 105 of LeWitt’s large scale wall drawings, spanning from 1969-2007. This major exhibition will be on view until 2033.
Karsh 100: A Biography in Images
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) | 2008-12-04
Exhibitions | Great Shows Across the US
The MFA will be celebrating Yousouf Karsh’s 100th birthday in a solo museum exhibition. The great portrait photographer has shot some of the most renowned figures of the 20th century, including Winston Churchill, Pablo Picasso, Sophia Loren and more. His major works will be shown along with some of his lesser known pieces.
Daniel Richter, A Major Survey
Denver Art Museum | 2008-12-02
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance
German contemporary artist Daniel Richter’s first solo museum exhibition in the US. Richter explores themes from pop culture, politics, music, movies, and history in colorful paintings that seem to leap out of the artist’s imagination and onto the canvas.
Yves Klein
Walker Art Center | 2008-12-01
Exhibitions | Great Shows Across the US
Yves Klein is the quintessential shaman showman who took the European art scene by storm from 1954-1962. This will be the first large scale exhibition of his major works in three decades, and will then be forwarded to the Hirshhorn Museum in DC, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Notations: The Closing Decade
Philadelphia Museum of Art | 2008-11-28
Exhibitions | Great Shows Across the US
The past decade defined by the fall of the Berlin wall and the attacks of 9/11 witnessed some of the most profound and lasting transformations since the postwar period. “Notations: The Closing Decade” will showcase a vast range of artistic practices during this time of profound change.
Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art | 2008-11-26
Exhibitions | Great Shows Across the US
Artists in Depth presents concentrations of work by several artists whom the MCA has collected in depth, or whose pieces in the collection are definitve examples of their singular aesthetic. Essentially, a summary of the MCA’s past exhibitions from the greatest artists of our day.
Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | 2008-11-22
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance
Pipilotti Rist’s lush multimedia installations playfully and provocatively merge fantasy and reality. MoMA commissioned the Swiss artist to create a monumental site-specific installation that immerses the Museum’s Marron Atrium in twenty-five-foot-high moving images.
Renee Billingslea: Rooted In America
McCaig Welles & Rosenthal (San Francisco) | 2008-11-22
Exhibitions | San Francisco at a Glance
McCaig Wells and Rosenthal is proud to present Rooted In America, a solo exhibition by California-based artist, Renee Billingslea. Picking up where her show Fabric of Race left off, Billingslea continues her poignant historic exploration of lynching, race, and identity in American society through riveting mixed media works and installations. The exhibition will commence with an opening reception for the artist on Saturday, November 22, 6 – 9 p.m. and will remain on view through January 3, 2009.
Stolen Land a solo exhibition by OTHER aka Troy Lovegates
Needles and Pens | 2008-11-21
Exhibitions | San Francisco at a Glance
Wander-lust ridden graffiti artist, Other, has scrawled, spray-painted, and pasted his beautiful, highly detailed, and often solemn-faced characters on the walls and doorways of buildings around the world. His work has mysteriously appeared in such distant places (far from his native Canada), as, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Bucharest, Fez, and Lima, Peru. However, it is on the elusive freight trains of the extensive North American railroad system that the majority of his imagery is on display. It is a rare treat to have a large collection of the artist’s work assembled in one location.
Dave Hullfish Bailey
Mesler&Hug | 2008-11-21
Exhibitions | San Francisco at a Glance
Dave Hullfish Bailey at Mesler&Hug from November 21-January 10 2009
The Art of Participation : 1950 to Now
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | 2008-11-20
Exhibitions | San Francisco at a Glance
Looking back nearly 60 years across a wide spectrum of genres and media, this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process. On view are works by more than 40 artists, from early performance and conceptual pieces to contemporary sculpture and web-based projects.
Enrique Martinez Celaya
LA Louver | 2008-11-20
Exhibitions | San Francisco at a Glance
L.A. Louver will devote all of its galleries to this extensive body of new work. Each of Martínez Celaya’s paintings appears to convey a passage from a grand myth or epic narrative: poppies in vast fields that stretch to the light; a young man encased in ice; barren trees against a landscape; a child engulfed in a thick, oversized coat; a horse alone in the forest. Yet, despite the presence of such iconography, Martínez Celaya considers his work neither figurative nor narrative. He has stated, “The iconography is less important to me that the armature on which that iconography hangs, as are the philosophical and ethical insights the works might suggest, which are often a reflection of the armature.”
Looking at Music: Media Art of the 1960s
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | 2008-11-19
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance
In the 1960s, the decade that saw astronauts land on the moon, artists were likewise seeking to expand boundaries of time and space and to have new experiences. At the same time, portable video equipment reached the consumer market, suddenly simultaneity and “now,” the present and the past, became content. Musicians led the way in developing new working methods, and music was at the forefront of interdisciplinary experimentation during the early days of media art. This exhibition looks at the dynamic connections that occurred from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with a display of early media works by Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and David Bowie presented alongside related drawings, prints, and photographs by John Cage, Jack Smith, Ray Johnson, and others.
Mear One
01 Gallery | 2008-11-19
Exhibitions | San Francisco at a Glance
MEAR ONE is examining the aspects of content that accompany any piece of art. MEAR is literally working on communicating some of what we as society have forgotten or are unable to see. There are artists who paint with the intention to be the best, or to make a ton of money, some to become famous, but MEAR questions the intention of each of his individual works, asking is this a worthy concept; and what is the outcome of such a work that speaks to the masses.
Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949
The Jewish Museum | 2008-11-16
Exhibitions | New York at a Glance
This is the first exhibition devoted to the extraordinary artwork created for Russian Jewish theater productions in the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibition brings to light a remarkable period in the early years of the Soviet Union when innovative visual artists, including Marc Chagall, Natan Altman, and Robert Falk joined forces with avant-garde playwrights, actors, and theatrical producers to create a theater experience with extraordinary mass appeal. Through paintings, costume and set designs, posters, photographs, film clips and theater ephemera – many of which have never been exhibited before- the exhibition captures an exhilarating but fleeting moment in the cultural history of the Soviet Union.
TOM WESSELMANN
Honor Fraser Gallery | 2008-11-15
Exhibitions | Los Angeles at a Glance
Tom Wesselmann: This exhibition brings together a collection of works that span the career of this Pop Icon. From his brash and bold series of American Nudes to slick and evocative Smokers Studies, the exhibition highlights the career of one of the countries breakthrough voices from the Sixties
Keith Sonnier: Recent Work
PaceWildenstein (57th Street) | 2008-11-15
Exhibitions | Emerging - New York
Ranging in size from 6 to 18 ft tall, the neon sculptures with allusions to Africa and the wild animals of the safari relate to earlier works from the 1980’s and early 1990’s. In conjunction with the exhibition at PaceWildenstein, two large-scale installations will be on display in midtown Manhattan. Whooper (2008), a large sculpture from the Herd series measuring nearly 19 feet tall, will be on view at 590 Madison Avenue through January 19, 2009. BA-O-BA Lever House (2003), a site-specific architectural commission from a series that began in 1968, will be reinstalled outlining Gordon Bunshaft’s iconic landmarked skyscraper Lever House (390 Park Avenue at 54th Street) from the second week of December through February 7, 2009.
