Art in NYC: Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich at the Jewish Museum

September 20, 2018April 24, 2019 contact@arts-ny.com 1 Comment

Art in NYC: Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich at the Jewish Museum

Russian Avant-garde art from the turbulent post-revolution years by the founders of People’s Art School in Vitebsk in 1918-1922 is open on September 14, 2018 – January 6, 2019

Art Jewish Museum New York City Chagall — Marc Chagall, Double Portrait with Wine Glass, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; image provided by CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York

Marking a centennial from its opening, the history of People’s Art School in Vitebsk and the artworks by its world-famous founder, prominent teachers and students make an excellent tribute to the new art, new teachings and the stormy winds of the revolutionary time. The exhibition is collaboratively organized by the Centre Pompidou in Paris where it was shown through July 16, 2018 and the Jewish Museum in New York where it will be on view until January 6, 2019. The works included in the exhibition are from the major museums and private collections with some of the paintings, drawings and sketches traveling abroad for the first time from the regional museums in Vitebsk and Minsk, Belarus.

Marc Chagall’s brainchild inspired by the spirit of revolution and its promise of access and opportunity for all, the art school in provincial Vitebsk, a town with under a hundred thousand residents half of them Jewish at the time, brought together world-class artists and talented students from humbled backgrounds. Chagall’s vision was to combine various artistic movements and to design the curriculum stretching from the classical elements all the way to the contemporary approaches. El Lissitzky and Kazemir Malevich were invited to join the faculty together with other artists representing a range of art movements. Soon supremacists led by Malevich won the hearts of the students leading to Chagall’s leaving Vitebsk and embarking on other projects in Moscow.

The dynamic Russian Avant-garde artworks on view at the Jewish Museum tell a touching story of historical changes and disappearance of the old ways of life and old ways of thinking about art. While the school didn’t last long and was reorganized into a technical college after 1922, its short history tells a remarkable story of the excitement of the experiment and the power of creative expression.

Beyond NYC: Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY

November 1, 2018April 3, 2019 contact@arts-ny.com

Beyond NYC: Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY

Fall 2018 exhibitions and talks for the local community

Contributed by Anna Adler, Outreach & Operations Coordinator, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

Kathryn Cirincione, Waiting / Image courtesy of the artist

Home of the Dutchess County Art Association from its founding in 1935, Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY is operated with a broad mission of fostering and perpetuating an appreciation of the visual arts in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Upcoming events:

THIS Saturday, Nov 3, join us for a Found Object Sculpture Workshop with Suprina (12-3pm) and New Directions Artist Talks (3-4pm).

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Beyond NYC: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Beautiful Dutchess County, NY

May 15, 2018September 10, 2018 contact@arts-ny.com

Beyond NYC: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Beautiful Dutchess County, NY

Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the collection at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College

Beyond NYC Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Dutchess County — Cornelis Visscher, The Large Cat, ca. 1657 / Image courtesy of Vassar Art Center

The picturesque campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY houses an inviting and intimate Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center which serves as an art education lab for students and faculty and an exhibition venue for the public. The center is holding insightful exposés from its collection rotating the focus from American Contemporary Art to Northern European Renaissance to Abstract Impressionism. A visit to the art center organically fits in with pensive nature walks and visits to the historic sites in Hudson Valley.

The Northern European Art 1500-1700 exhibition is celebrating the career of Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Vassar College Class of 1963 and Professor of Art who taught at Vassar for forty years. The exhibition will be on view from April 27 – September 2, 2018 and the admission to the art center is free of charge.

Art in NYC: Obsession-Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, Picasso at The Met Breuer

July 26, 2018September 10, 2018 contact@arts-ny.com

Art in NYC: Obsession-Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, Picasso at The Met Breuer

Erotic watercolors, drawings and prints from The Met’s Scofield Thayer Collection on view July 3 – October 7, 2018

Obsession Nudes Met Breuer Schiele — Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait, 1911; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982

An exhibition of about fifty works by the grand masters of the Vienna Secession movement Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele together with the early works by Pablo Picasso dives deep into artists’ obsession with male and female bodies. Bequeathed to The Met Museum in 1925 by Scofield Thayer, the collection is now coming on view for the first time. Thayer, a wealthy American publisher, and poet, collected the works in the early 1920s.

Klimt, while highly acclaimed in Austria, was mostly unknown to the American public. Schiele and Picasso were just starting to get attention and recognition in America. Thayer used some reproductions of the artworks in his avant-garde literary magazine Dial and for an exhibition at the Montross Gallery in New York in 1924. However he didn’t find much interest for them in his native Massachusetts.

His collection was assembled when Thayer was traveling between Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. It is an opening into the hidden obsession and fascination with the nude bodies, the emotions of the struggling souls and the complexity of desire. Don’t judge; just observe and contemplate.

Art in NYC: Giacometti at the Guggenheim Museum

June 25, 2018September 10, 2018 contact@arts-ny.com 1 Comment

Art in NYC: Giacometti at the Guggenheim Museum

Expansive expose of Giacometti’s sculptures, paintings and drawings on view at the Guggenheim until September 12, 2018

Paintings Sculptures Giacometti Guggenheim Museum New York City Dog — Alberto Giacometti Dog (Le Chien), 1951 Bronze, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Alberto Giacometti doesn’t need an elaborate introduction. His signature figures of striding tall men and extremely elongated silhouettes of women standing on heavy pedestals are immediately recognizable and treasured. Yet with all its familiarity and accessibility, the exhibition at Guggenheim uncovers the roots of artist’s journey from Cubism in his early years to figurative compositions in his later period adding layers of depth and influences.

Guggenheim’s spiraling rotunda which houses the exhibition’s vast number of sculptures, painting, and sketches serves as a symbolic climb to the triumph of Giacometti’s life work. His search for a true representation of humanity in its stillness and action are accompanied by meticulous curatorial introductions and labels. There is a lot behind each piece of work from the tiniest figurines to the towering sculptures. Get close to the artist’s thinking and immerse yourself into the existential art of “a Certified Genius™” as the FT calls the artist. The exhibition is on view until September 12, 2018.

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