Current Events
Below are events and current happenings related to the artists that are covered by The Art Story website.
NEW YORK
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The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times
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"The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times" takes a thematic approach to the question of myth-making in the modern period, broadly defined from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. Including artists working in diverse modes, from Symbolism and early modernism to abstract painting, ephemeral practices, and cinema, the show looks at how artists draw on ancient myths and shared narratives, and continue to create new ones today.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY |
March 10, 2010 to September 6, 2010
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Otto Dix
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This exhibition gathers together master paintings, prints, and drawings by Otto Dix, the iconic portraitist and painter of the Weimar Republic and beyond. Organized around the four themes of war (Dix was a soldier in World War I), portraiture, sexuality, and allegory and religious painting, the exhibition provides a view of German society and urban culture during the first half of the twentieth century, all filtered through Dix's fierce wit and unsparing commentary.
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Neue Galerie
New York, NY |
March 11, 2010 to August 30, 2010
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Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb
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In 1951, the Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Herbert Ferber each designed a work for a synagogue in Milburn, NJ. The resulting pieces--a monumental sculpture, a lobby mural, and a Torah curtain--are gathered together in this compelling exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York. Deeply embedded both in the expressive vocabularies of New York School abstraction and in the iconography of Jewish worship, the works suggest the connections between sacred space and avant-garde aesthetics, and examine the relationship between abstraction, figuration, and religious symbolism.
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Jewish Museum
New York, NY |
March 14, 2010 to August 1, 2010
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Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
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"Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance" speaks to our desire to access the past and re-realize it--in ghostly, melancholic, or uncanny form--in the present. Like apparitions haunting the visible, a slew of dated techniques and subject matters wend their way through the contemporary performance and media art on display.
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Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY |
March 26, 2010 to September 6, 2010
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Picasso: Themes and Variations
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Pablo Picasso was a master of printing techniques, experimenting with etching, linocut, and lithographs throughout his career. This exhibition traces several of his major themes and approaches (acrobats, Cubist space, bulls, portraits of women, among others), and how they developed in conjunction with Picasso's evolving understanding of print media.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY |
March 28, 2010 to September 6, 2010
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Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This exhibition focuses on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's holdings of Pablo Picasso's work, from the harlequins and acrobats of his early career to his cubist still lifes, classicizing figures, and the bulls, minotaurs, and nudes that increasingly populated his late work. The collection's focus on early figure paintings is evident, as is an extraordinary number of important but little-known drawings.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY |
April 27, 2010 to August 1, 2010
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Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now
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This exhibition deflects the myth that abstraction is chiefly a geometric, ordered, and triumphant vocabulary. Works by Louise Bourgeois and other artists explore the alternative, more idiosyncratic terrain of abstraction, employing organic forms, craft-based techniques, and textured and malleable materials.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY |
May 5, 2010 to August 16, 2010
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Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes
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Roy Lichtenstein's still lifes employ many of the same techniques that mark his initial contributions to Pop Art: mechanical outlines, Ben-Day color dots painted by hand, and a persistent foraging in the works of others for motifs and compositions. This exhibition, the first devoted exclusively to the artist's still lifes, includes over fifty works from 1972 through the 1980s.
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Gagosian Gallery
New York, NY |
May 8, 2010 to July 30, 2010
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Fairfield Porter
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Fairfield Porter was known not only for his modern, realist-based style, but also for the role he played as a painter in the New York scene and, later, as an art critic. The paintings gathered here, including landscapes, still lifes, and portraits, demonstrate his bold use of color and his spare, painterly renditions of scenes from everyday life.
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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
New York, NY |
June 4, 2010 to August 13, 2010
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Helen Frankenthaler: Prints and Proofs of the 1960s from the Artist's Archive
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This exhibition gathers prints and proofs from the archive of American artist Helen Frankenthaler. Frankenthaler's works, with their streaks and stains of color, are an important sequel to the gestural expressionism of 1950s New York painting.
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Craig F. Starr Gallery
New York, NY |
June 4, 2010 to August 13, 2010
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Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
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In the later part of his career, Warhol continued his screenprints and television experimentations but also, inspired by the painting-heavy art world of the 1980s, reengaged with the medium of painting. This is the first major museum show in the U.S. devoted to Warhol's late career.
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Brooklyn Museum
New York, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD |
June 18, 2010 to September 12, 2010
October 17, 2010 to January 9, 2011
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Andy Warhol: Rain Machine (Daisy Waterfall)
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First created in 1969, Andy Warhol's Rain Machine project combined lenticular photographic prints of Warhol's images with cascading layers of water. In the present installation, 70 daisy panels by Warhol, encased in Plexiglass, create a sense of illusionary depth behind the streaming waterfall of the rain machine.
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Nicholas Robinson Gallery
New York, NY |
June 24, 2010 to August 27, 2010
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The Geometry of Kandinsky and Malevich
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Kazimir Malevich and Wasily Kandinsky, two avant-garde artists originating in Russia in the early twentieth-century, each forged their own versions of radically abstract painting. This exhibition puts their two careers side by side, looking at Malevich's Suprematism and Kandinsky's lyrically abstract works, as well as their less-known early and late examples.
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Guggenheim
New York, NY |
July 9, 2010 to September 7, 2010
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Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917
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Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 reevaluates this critical period of the French painter's work, one where he experimented with pared-down forms, abstract elements, and new color arrangements. The show will focus in particular on Matisse's working method, a process that we have new insight into thanks to recent scientific analysis of his paintings.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY |
July 18, 2010 to October 11, 2010
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WORLDWIDE
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In the Tower: Mark Rothko
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National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C. |
February 21, 2010 to January 2, 2011
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Colorscope: Abstract Painting, 1960-1979
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"Colorscope: Abstract Painting, 1960-1979" examines the vibrant, color-heavy, and often divergent strands of abstraction that developed after the height of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. Artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, and Kenneth Noland, among others, developed variously lyrical, optical, and geometric versions of abstract practice, pushing the tenets of modern painting to the extreme. Despite their differences, these movements shared a common interest in color saturation and contrast, creating visual effects in paint like glowing light, jumping lines, and machine-edged precision.
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara, CA |
March 20, 2010 to August 15, 2010
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1964
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Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN |
March 25, 2010 to October 24, 2010
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love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death - Andy Warhol Media Works
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Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA |
May 13, 2010 to September 6, 2010
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American Modernism
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National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC |
May 16, 2010 to January 2, 2011
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Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp / Andy Warhol
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The Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA |
May 23, 2010 to September 5, 2010
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction
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Although remembered today chiefly for her depictions of flowers, skulls, and other still life objects, Georgia O'Keeffe was also one of America's first abstractionists. Focusing on her abstract paintings and drawings, this exhibition presents a new side to the well-known American artist.
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, NM |
May 28, 2010 to September 12, 2010
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Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings
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"Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings" gathers together the ethereal, subtle, and at times other-worldly paintings that Richard Pousette-Dart executed in white paint in the early and mid-fifties. Often accented by abstract forms in graphite pencil, these paintings are a dramatic departure from the brilliantly colored, paint-encrusted works that the artist created at other times.
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Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C. |
June 5, 2010 to September 12, 2010
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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective brings together paintings and drawings by the Armenian-born artist who played a crucial role in the evolution from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism in 1940s New York. Gorky's many different styles are well represented, from his geometric abstractions to his studied portraits and his drippy, automatist compositions.
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Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, California |
June 6, 2010 to September 20, 2010
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Picasso Looks at Degas
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA |
June 13, 2010 to September 12, 2010
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Calder to Warhol: Introducting the Fisher Collection
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Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA |
June 25, 2010 to September 19, 2010
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Clyfford Still
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY |
June 25, 2010 to August 29, 2010
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Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
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Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL |
June 26, 2010 to October 17, 2010
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Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s
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Amon Carter Museum
Fort Worth, TX |
June 26, 2010 to September 5, 2010
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Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture
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Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD |
July 21, 2010 to February 2, 2011
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REMIX: Sol LeWitt
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY |
July 23, 2010 to November 8, 2010
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Sol LeWitt Scribble Wall Drawing
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY |
summer 2010
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Salvador Dalí: The Late Work
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High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA |
August 7, 2010 to January 9, 2011
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Adolph Gottlieb, A Retrospective
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Venice, Italy |
September 4, 2010 to January 9, 2011
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Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay
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de Young Museum
San Francisco, CA |
September 25, 2010 to January 18, 2011
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Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris
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Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA |
October 8, 2010 to January 17, 2011
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David Smith, Invents
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Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C. |
February 12, 2011 to May 15, 2011
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Philip Guston, Roma
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Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C. |
February 12, 2011 to May 15, 2011
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