A new retrospective of painter Liu Shuishi is christening Chase Contemporary’s new gallery space in New York City. The first retrospective of his fifteen-year career, the exhibition collects a large body of Shuishi’s work. Shuishi believes thought is the carrier of art, and his paintings are meditations on the isolation and instability of contemporary life. Influenced by German and Abstract Expressionism and traditional Chinese calligraphy, his brushstrokes are bold and gestural.
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An extensive exhibition at the Met Breuer, "Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963–2017" introduces viewers to the acclaimed painter’s previously unknown sculpture. A groundbreaking innovator in abstract painting, Whitten also created striking sculpture, utilizing wood, nails, fish bones, and other materials.
Toyin Ojih Odutola has spent three years and four exhibitions telling the story of TH Lord Temitope Omodele and TMH Lord Jideofor Emeka. Now in a fifth exhibition, opening this week at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, Ojih Odutola concludes her visual drama.
New York, NY – Friedman Benda will present the largest gallery exhibition to date of work by Los Angeles artist Adam Silverman. Widely admired for his sculptural vessels, which feature richly textured glazes, Silverman is among the most dynamic practitioners in the ceramic discipline today. Yet his sources of inspiration range far beyond clay. Originally trained as an architect, he brings a powerful structural integrity to his work, and also draws on ideas from sculpture, painting, and choreography.ster of designers spanning six continents and multiple generations.
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced a gift of more than 50 major historical artworks, including more than 35 seminal works, by pioneering artist Marcel Duchamp from Washington, D.C., collectors Barbara and Aaron Levine.
In a new text from Cambridge Press, authors Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein offer readers easy access to understanding a complex period of time. "The Middle Ages in 50 Objects" (Cambridge Press, 2018) uses individual works from the comprehensive collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art to exemplify both broad movements and specific moments in history.
Washington, DC—Dressed in rustic Italian costume or nude on a grassy plain, rendered with a sophisticated use of color and a deft, delicate touch, Corot's women convey a mysterious sense of their inner lives. Corot: Women features 44 paintings created between the 1840s and the early 1870s: nudes, individual figures in costumes, and an allegorical series of the model in the studio. The National Gallery of Art is the only venue for Corot: Women, on view from September 9 through December 31, 2018.
As the world mourns the loss of the Brazil National Museum to a monumental fire, we look back on some of the greatest losses to humanity’s art and cultural heritage.
Vernacular photographs are the lifeblood of affirmative self (re)presentation. For African-Americans, whose relationship with photography has always been complicated—stemming from, among other things, the difficulty with which photographic technology registers melanated skin (see Shirley cards)—portraits are not only personal, but political. Until October 8, the exhibition, African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s will be on view at The Met Fifth Avenue.
