The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will mount an exhibition of work by Irwin Kremen, who is widely acclaimed for his intricate abstract collages. Irwin Kremen / MATRIX 265 will encompass 23 works that span 40 years of Kremen’s creative practice. The exhibition marks the latest installment in BAMPFA’s MATRIX Program—a series that connects Bay Area audiences to important work by exceptional contemporary artists. Organized by BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder, the exhibition will be on view from April 26 through August 27, 2017.
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This summer, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) presents a new exhibition of paintings that encompasses five hundred years of Indian art-making traditions. Divine Visions, Earthly Pleasures: Five Hundred Years of Indian Paintingdraws on the institution’s extensive holdings of Asian art, in particular a renowned collection of more than three hundred works donated to BAMPFA in 1998. Guest curated by the distinguished Indian art scholar Robert J.
We Are the Youth is an ongoing photographic journalism project created by photographer Laurel Golio and journalist Diana Scholl chronicling the individual stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth in the United States. Through photographic portraits and interviews presented in the participants’ own voices, the project captures the incredible diversity among the LGBTQ youth population. We Are the Youth addresses the lack of visibility of LGBTQ young people by providing a space to share stories in an honest and respectful way.
Photographs from French photographer Samuel Gratacap’s series Empire(2012–14) will be projected on the windows of the ICP Museum at 250 Bowery, in conjunction with the current exhibition Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change.
At a crossroads in the middle of his career, Jasper Johns (1930) found his way forward in part by looking to the work of Edvard Munch (1863–1944). Now a ground-breaking exhibition entitled Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life examines how Johns, one of America’s preeminent artists, mined the work of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from a decade of abstract painting towards a more open expression of love, sex, loss and death.
Coinciding with the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Columbus Museum of Art presents Red Horizon: Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960-2010, on view June 15 through September 24, 2017. This timely exhibition is drawn from two facets of Neil K. Rector’s world-class art collection: Soviet and Russian photography from the 1970s to the early 1990s, and the work of Moscow-based unofficial artists who came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.
In the early 1930s, Alexander Calder (1898–1976) invented an entirely new mode of art, the mobile—a kinetic form of sculpture in which carefully balanced components manifest their own unique systems of movement. These works operate in highly sophisticated ways, ranging from gentle rotations to uncanny gestures, and at times trigger unpredictable percussive sounds.
Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive is a major exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright that critically engages his multifaceted practice. Wright was one of the most prolific and renowned architects of the 20th century, a radical designer and intellectual who embraced new technologies and materials, pioneered do-it-yourself construction systems as well as avant-garde experimentation, and advanced original theories with regards to nature, urban planning, and social politics.
The Harvard Art Museums will present five distinct exhibitions this summer, featuring works drawn from a diverse range of geographic regions and time periods, including Imperial China, 14th- to 17th-century Iran and Central Asia, 19th-century Iran, pre- and post-revolutionary America, and contemporary America. While showcasing the diversity of the museums' collections, these exhibitions will present new research and scholarship and will encourage discussion about artists, artistic practice, culture, and collecting.
The October Revolution of 1917 changed the course of world history; it also turned Russia into a showcase filled with models. Every object and sphere of activity had to demonstrate how society could be remade according to revolutionary principles. It would take intensive experimentation and discussion to determine the shape of this unprecedented society. To be realized in any concrete way, communism had to be modeled and put on display.A rotating program of Soviet cartoons and documentaries is shown in a space that evokes an agit-prop train.
