Chicago -- Chicago, a long-time hub for outsider art, need only look slightly north to find a strong, like-minded neighbor. With museums, galleries, residents and collectors supporting numerous art environments, roadside attraction sites and art grottos, the state of Wisconsin has proven a fertile home to a number of self-taught creatives. The permeation of an interest in outsider art and its crossing of literal and figurative borders is the impetus for To Be Seen and Heard, opening at Intuit in March.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition dedicated to the work of Jean Shin, a Korean-American artist widely acclaimed for her practice of dramatically transforming unlikely objects into monumental installations. Jean Shin: Collections will feature six large-scale installations made of crowd-sourced materials as well as a single channel video.
Recently opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Do Ho Suh’s ‘Almost Home’ invites us to tour Suh’s ethereal memories. Suh is known for his delicately crafted “fabric architecture” pieces. These large-scale installations are sewn from sheer material, making them both solid, immersive objects, while also being light and transparent enough to appear fragile. In ‘Almost Home,’ Suh has recreated the hallways from several of his homes from around the world. Born in 1962 in Korea, Suh currently splits time between Seoul, New York, and London.
Based in Baltimore MD, Amy Sherald documents contemporary African-American experience in the United States through arresting, otherworldly portraits, often working from photographs of strangers she encounters on the streets.
As the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery marks its 50th anniversary, it will not only honor the past with special exhibitions but also shape the museum’s next chapter. The first contemporary exhibition of the museum’s anniversary season, “UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light: Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar” examines how people of color are missing in historical portraiture, and how their contributions to the nation’s past were rendered equally invisible.
Phillips is delighted to announce that its first gallery space in Asia will be open on 26 March 2018, located in the prestigious St George’s Building in Central, Hong Kong, where its Asia Headquarters has recently relocated.
“I chose to use photography, with my camera as a time machine to travel back into the past.”
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
The Dallas Museum of Art announced the first ever solo museum exhibition of works by Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe and the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to date. Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow will bring together approximately 40 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings for the first time, including six of the artist’s seven lighthouse paintings, whose previously unknown locations were revealed during exhibition research and which have not been exhibited together since 1955.
The Broad announced major new acquisitions for its collection, including Helter Skelter I, 2007, a massive, mural-scale painting by the Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford, and Bradford’s recent work, I heard you got arrested today, 2018. The museum also acquired Longing for Eternity, 2017, by Yayoi Kusama, adding a second of the artist’s iconic Infinity Mirror Room installations to its collection.
On February 27th, Fernand Léger’s (1881-1955) L’usine or Motif pour le moteur sold at Christie’s London at the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale for over 1.9 million pounds ($2.9 million), far exceeding the auction house’s estimate of nine hundred thousand to 1.2 million pounds.
