Author: Darko Topalski

Milwaukee Art Museum to host “Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography”

Louis Faurer - San Genaro Festival, New York City, 1949 - Gelatin silver print, 20.96 x 31.43 cm. Copyright:© Louis Faurer Estate/Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC (Not On Exhibition)

Milwaukee, WI –
Abstract Expressionism, film noir, Beat
poetry, and the New Journalism are all widely recognized aftershocks of World
War II, representing a broad aesthetic revolution that championed spontaneity
and subjective interpretation as the guiding principles of creative practice.
Postwar photographers in many ways set the rhythm and tenor of this new
approach, not least because the hand-held camera was naturally suited to chance
discoveries and impulsive gestures. On exhibition January 30–April 25, 2010 at
the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The MAK Museum presents Recollecting ~ Looted Art and Restitution

Lisl Ponger - Horror Vacui, 2008 - C-print, 133 x 168 cm. - © Courtesy Charim Gallery, Vienna/MAK

Vienna, Austria – The MAK Museum Exhibition Hall presents Recollecting: Looted Art and Restitution, on view through February 15, 2009. The show entitled “Recollecting” presents art and everyday objects from Jewish possession and their history between robbery and restitution. Especially for the exhibition, new artworks were created which put this issue of controversial topicality in a present-day perspective. The significance that restitution has for the heirs is linked with questions of cultural identity, history policy, individual recollection and the collective memory.

Royal Academy of Arts to show “The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters”

LONDON.- In January 2010, the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition of the work of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). The focus of the exhibition will be the artist’s remarkable correspondence. Over 35 original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due to their fragility, will be on display in the main galleries of […]

Denver Art Museum hosts Impressionist Plein-Air Landscape Paintings

William Glackens - Bathing at Bellport, Long Island, 1912 - Brooklyn Museum ; bequest of Laura L. Barnes.

DENVER, CO – Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism celebrates the great outdoors with some of the finest examples of mid- and late-19th century French and American landscape paintings. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art with works from its own collection, this traveling exhibition offers a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by renowned artists including Monet, Courbet, Daubigny, Renoir, William Glackens,  and Sargent. Opening at the Denver Art Museum on June 13, 2008, Landscapes features 40 paintings and will continue through September 7, 2008.

“Edgar Degas’ World” at the National Gallery of Australia

Edgar Degas - Spartan Girls Provoking Boys. c.1860-62  - Courtesy National Gallery, London

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – Degas’ world: the rage for change, a complementary exhibition to the international blockbuster Degas: master of French art, on exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. The exhibition showcases Edgar Degas’ contemporaries and the world that they inhabited, a world in the throes of social and economic change. Degas’ World depicts the other side of Impressionism, one that explores the underbelly of Parisian life. On view through 22 March, 2009.

Pinakothek der Moderne hosts Masterdrawings from The Morgan Library & Museum

Honoré Daumier - Two Lawyers Conversing, about 1862 - Black chalk, stumping, with gouache in white and gray, and pale pink, yellow and brown watercolour - © The Pierpont Morgan Library, NYC

Munich, Germany – One hundred of the finest examples of draftsmanship from the permanent collection of The Morgan Library & Museum are on view at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. This exhibition has provided an exciting opportunity for the Morgan to collaborate with one of the foremost European collections of works on paper, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich, and to share the treasures of its collection with a wider public in one of the cultural capitals of Europe. On view through 3 January, 2009.

National Galleries of Scotland presents ” From Sickert to Gertler “

Mark Gertler - Supper (Natalie Denny) , 1928 - Oil on canvas  Private Collection - © Tate, London 2008

Edinburgh, Scotland – This exhibition will celebrate the lives of Bobby and Natalie Bevan, and the works which hung on the walls of their home, Boxted House in Essex, which became a gathering place for a wide range of creative people after the Second World War.  Boxted House was the home of Bobby and Natalie Bevan from 1946 until 1974. Bobby was the son of the artists Robert Bevan and Stanislawa de Karlowska, and was Chairman of the leading advertising agency S. H. Benson Ltd. The painter and ceramicist Natalie Denny, a renowned beauty and hostess, modelled for many artists, most famously for Mark Gertler.

National Galleries of Scotland presents “From Sickert to Gertler”

Mark Gertler - Supper (Natalie Denny) , 1928 - Oil on canvas  Private Collection - © Tate, London 2008

Edinburgh, Scotland – This exhibition will celebrate the lives of Bobby and Natalie Bevan, and the works which hung on the walls of their home, Boxted House in Essex, which became a gathering place for a wide range of creative people after the Second World War.  Boxted House was the home of Bobby and Natalie Bevan from 1946 until 1974. Bobby was the son of the artists Robert Bevan and Stanislawa de Karlowska, and was Chairman of the leading advertising agency S. H. Benson Ltd. The painter and ceramicist Natalie Denny, a renowned beauty and hostess, modelled for many artists, most famously for Mark Gertler.

From Dürer to Renoir: Prints Exhibition at Harn Museum

James Gillray Ahithopehl In The Dumps

GAINESVILLE, FL – On July 17, 2007, the Harn Museum of Art premieres an exhibition of more than 40 prints from 1500 to 1900 that explore themes such as politics, religion and travel. “From Dürer to Renoir: European Prints from the Harn Museum Collection” features etchings, lithographs and woodcuts demonstrating the various themes and uses for prints, including as illustrations for books and newspapers, and as limited editions for the art market. Featured are 25 artists from Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

Charles Burdick brushes up on Master Painters at Cahoon Museum

Charles Burdick Van Gogh And The Mailman

COTUIT, MA – Wellfleet octogenarian Charles Burdick continues to be very much a working artist, painting nearly every day. And in recent years, he frequently paints other artists at work, providing his own playful interpretations of such masters as Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Henri Rousseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso. Thus, the title of the Cahoon Museum’s fall show, “Artist at Work: The Paintings of Charles Burdick,” works two ways.

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