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EVENT DESCRIPTION LOCATION & WEBSITE DATES
The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times
"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.
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
March 10, 2010 to September 6, 2010
Otto Dix
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.
Neue Galerie
New York, NY
March 11, 2010 to August 30, 2010
Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb
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.
Jewish Museum
New York, NY
March 14, 2010 to August 1, 2010
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
"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.
Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
March 26, 2010 to September 6, 2010
Picasso: Themes and Variations
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.
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
March 28, 2010 to September 6, 2010
Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
April 27, 2010 to August 1, 2010
Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now
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.
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
May 5, 2010 to August 16, 2010
Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes
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.
Gagosian Gallery
New York, NY
May 8, 2010 to July 30, 2010
Fairfield Porter
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.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
New York, NY
June 4, 2010 to August 13, 2010
Helen Frankenthaler: Prints and Proofs of the 1960s from the Artist's Archive
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.
Craig F. Starr Gallery
New York, NY
June 4, 2010 to August 13, 2010
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
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.
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
Andy Warhol: Rain Machine (Daisy Waterfall)
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.
Nicholas Robinson Gallery
New York, NY
June 24, 2010 to August 27, 2010
The Geometry of Kandinsky and Malevich
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.
Guggenheim
New York, NY
July 9, 2010 to September 7, 2010
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917
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.
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
July 18, 2010 to October 11, 2010

WORLDWIDE

EVENT DESCRIPTION LOCATION & WEBSITE DATES
In the Tower: Mark Rothko

National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
February 21, 2010 to January 2, 2011
Colorscope: Abstract Painting, 1960-1979
"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.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara, CA
March 20, 2010 to August 15, 2010
1964

Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
March 25, 2010 to October 24, 2010
love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death - Andy Warhol Media Works

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
May 13, 2010 to September 6, 2010
American Modernism

National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
May 16, 2010 to January 2, 2011
Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp / Andy Warhol

The Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA
May 23, 2010 to September 5, 2010
Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction
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.
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, NM
May 28, 2010 to September 12, 2010
Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings
"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.
Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C.
June 5, 2010 to September 12, 2010
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
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.
Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, California
June 6, 2010 to September 20, 2010
Picasso Looks at Degas

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
June 13, 2010 to September 12, 2010
Calder to Warhol: Introducting the Fisher Collection

Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
June 25, 2010 to September 19, 2010
Clyfford Still

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY
June 25, 2010 to August 29, 2010
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
June 26, 2010 to October 17, 2010
Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s

Amon Carter Museum
Fort Worth, TX
June 26, 2010 to September 5, 2010
Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture

Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD
July 21, 2010 to February 2, 2011
REMIX: Sol LeWitt

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY
July 23, 2010 to November 8, 2010
Sol LeWitt Scribble Wall Drawing

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY
summer 2010
Salvador Dalí: The Late Work

High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA
August 7, 2010 to January 9, 2011
Adolph Gottlieb, A Retrospective

Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Venice, Italy
September 4, 2010 to January 9, 2011
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay

de Young Museum
San Francisco, CA
September 25, 2010 to January 18, 2011
Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
October 8, 2010 to January 17, 2011
David Smith, Invents

Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C.
February 12, 2011 to May 15, 2011
Philip Guston, Roma

Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C.
February 12, 2011 to May 15, 2011

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