The next Atelier with Alina Cho will feature designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, on Thursday, October 12, at 7:00 p.m. at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. American design talent standouts, Jack and Lazaro rocked the fashion boat in July with their journey across the Atlantic to show their Spring/Summer 2018 ready-to-wear collection during the Fall/Winter 2017 haute couture shows in Paris.
August 2017 Art News
Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that Keith L. Prewitt has been appointed to the role of Chief Security Officer for the Museum.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, continues its 2017 season of Inside Out, a major arts initiative that brings high-quality reproductions of Museum masterpieces into communities throughout the city and region.
The first exhibition of its kind at the Museum, Philadelphia Assembled joins art and civic engagement. Realized in collaboration with a network of creators and activists from across Philadelphia, the project explores the city’s changing landscape and tells a story of active resistance and radical community building.
In 1888-89 in the southern French city of Arles, Vincent van Gogh painted a number of versions of what was to become one of the most famous images in the history of art, his Sunflowers.
Today these paintings are located in museums across the globe, but they have never been seen together—until now. On August 14, 2017, for the first time, five versions of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers will be presented in a way the artist could never have imagined.
"Photographer Sunil Gupta talks about how his work in the dark room helped him deal with his HIV positive diagnosis. Sunil Gupta was born in New Delhi in 1953 and went to New York City in the 70s to study business. While there he began to photograph the city’s gay community and continued to use the same subject matter for his subsequent photography series in both India and the UK. A pioneering documenter of LGTBQ stories and relationship – some images from his Ten Years On series are currently on show in Tate Britain’s Sixty Years display."
"We visit abstract painter William T Williams as he works on a new piece in his Connecticut studio. Andy Mundy-Castle directs a film profile of abstract painter William T Williams with a sneak-peak into his Manhattan and Connecticut studios. William T Williams has two canvases on display in the Tate Modern exhibition Soul of A Nation: Art in the Name of Black Power Trane (1969) and Nu Nile (1973)." - Tate
"Go behind-the-scenes with Guggenheim graphic designer Peter Castro and design firm T.E. Black Studio during the wall text installation of "Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897." Most wall texts at the Guggenheim Museum are applied using silkscreen printing, a process more typically used on fabric or paper. As shown in the video above, paint is pushed through a fine mesh onto the wall, leaving crisp lettering behind." - Guggenheim Museum
"Adriano Costa, and Pablo León de la Barra, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America, talk about the genesis of their artistic practices in London, and discuss the artist’s installation "Straight from the House of Trophies—Ouro Velho" (2013). They highlight Costa’s alchemical transformation of found objects and fabric for personal use into “old gold.” The pair also both talk about the significance of gold in relation to religion, colonialism, and boom-and-bust economics in Brazil." - Guggenheim Museum
"Sarah Lucas speaks about her exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, where her pointed, provocative work is presented in dialogue with the sculptures of Auguste Rodin." - de Young, San Francisco
