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Pablo Picasso, La Vie (Life), 1903. Oil on canvas, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1945.24.
On view at Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí at the Metropolitan Museum. George Stubbs, Pumpkin with a Stable-Lad, 1774, oil on panel. On view at the Yale Center for British Art. Isaac Abrams, Cosmic Orchid, 1967, Oil on canvas. Collection of Bruno Bischofsberger. On view at the Whitney. |
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1 Thursday
Lorna Simpson
The first mid-career survey of this artist known for her photographic and film works. Through May 6.
Whitney Museum, NYC
800.WHITNEY; www.whitney.org |
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Saturday
Faith & Fortune: Five Centuries of European Masterworks
A display of 60 of the museum’s renowned Old Master paintings back from a three-year national tour. Through December 9.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
860.278.2670; www.wadsworthatheneum.org |
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Sunday
Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making
This exhibition presents the first investigation into the experimental outgrowths of comic abstraction.
Through June 11.
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
212.708.9400; www.moma.org |
4
Sunday
Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution
The first international survey to examine how the feminist movement changed the way we see and understand art.
Through July 16.
MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
213.621.1749; www.moca.org |
4
Sunday
The Modern West:
American Landscapes, 1890–1950
The first major exhibition to explore the role of the American West in the development of modernism in the United States. Through June 3.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
323.857.6000; www.lacma.org |
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Tuesday
Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelain and the Allure of the East
This exhibition explores the design and reception of rococo luxury objects by focusing on a pair of mounted eighteenth-century Chinese porcelains in The Frick. Through June 10.
The Frick Collection, NYC
212.288.0700; www.frick.org |
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Wednesday
Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí
This exhibition explores the diverse and innovative work of Barcelona's artists, architects, and designers in the years between the Barcelona Universal Exposition of 1888 and the imposition of the Fascist regime of Francisco Franco in 1939. Through June 3.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
212.535.7710; www.metmuseum.org |
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Saturday
Through Six Generations:
The Weng Collection of Chinese
Painting and Calligraphy
This exhibition presents thirty rarely seen masterworks of Chinese painting and calligraphy from the Weng Collection. Through August 1.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
617.267.9300; www.mfa.org |
17
Saturday
Modernism:
Designing a New World 1914-1939
The exhibition explores the foundation and meaning of Modernism, and it contains some of the most seminal works of modern art, graphic and product design, and architecture produced in the first half of the 20th century.
Through July 29.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
202.639.1700; www.corcoran.org |
22
Thursday
Van Gogh and Expressionism
An exhibition of more than 80 paintings that will explore the crucial influence of Vincent van Gogh on German and Austrian Expressionism. Through July 2.
Neue Galerie, NYC
212.628.6200; www.neuegalerie.org |
23
Friday
Opening of Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
An exhibition and education facility dedicated to feminist art—its past, present, and future. Its centerpiece is Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
718.638.5000; www.brooklynmuseum.org |
25
Sunday
Eugène Boudin
A special exhibition of 40 paintings and works on paper by the French impressionist artist. Through August 5.
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
202.842.6353; www.nga.gov |
27
Tuesday
Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797
An examination of the relationship between Venice and the Islamic world over a thousand-year period.
Through July 8.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
212.535.7710; www.metmuseum.org |
30
Friday
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
An exhibition of nearly 60 works by the acknowledged dean of the American landscape school. Through July 29.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
718.638.5000; www.brooklynmuseum.org |
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14 Saturday
The Shapes of Space
Opening in stages in the spring and summer, this exhibition will explore the various ways in which artists from the early 20th century through the present have conceived of and represented space. Through August 29.
Guggenheim Museum, NYC
212.423.3500; www.guggenheim.com |
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Wednesday
Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art
In celebration of the museum’s thirtieth anniversary, this exhibition features nearly 250 treasures from the Paul Mellon Collection. Through July 29.
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, CT
203.432.2800; www.yale.edu/ycba |
20 Friday
From Berlin to Broadway
An exhibition of forty-three early-twentieth-century German and Austrian drawings donated to the museum through the bequest of Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb. Through September 2.
The Morgan Library, NYC
212.685.0008; www.morganlibrary.org |
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20
Friday
Opening of New Greek and Roman Galleries
The opening of the new Hellenistic, South Italian, Etruscan, and Roman galleries—an entire wing housing over 5,300 objects in more than 30,000 square feet.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
212.535.7710; www.metmuseum.org |
27
Friday
Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy
This exhibition of approximately forty paintings comprises works by the masters of Italian Divisionism, such as Giovanni Segantini, Angelo Morbelli, and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, together with significant Neo-Impressionists paintings by, among others, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and Camille Pissarro. Through August 6.
Guggenheim Museum, NYC
212.423.3500; www.guggenheim.com |
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1 Tuesday
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture
This exhibition will demonstrate the evolution of Stella’s work from painting, to wall-reliefs, to free-standing sculpture that extends into architecture.
Through July 29.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
212.535.7710; www.metmuseum.org |
9
Wednesday
Poiret: King of Fashion
Focusing on his technical ingenuity and originality, the exhibition will explore Paul Poiret’s modernity in relation to and as an expression of the dominant discourses of the early 20th century. Through August 5.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
212.535.7710; www.metmuseum.org |
16
Wednesday
182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
A members only exhibition with about 200 artists exhibiting both figurative to abstract art, in different styles and mediums. Through June 24.
National Academy Museum, NYC
212.369.4880; www.nationalacademy.org |
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17
Thursday
Barry Frydlender: Time and Place
An exhibition of ten large photographs that explore the circumstance of contemporary Israel. Through September 3.
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
212.708.9400; www.moma.org |
24 Thursday
Summer of Love:
Art of the Psychedelic Era
This exhibition revisits the unprecedented explosion of contemporary art and popular culture brought about by the civil unrest and pervasive social change of the 1960s and early 70s, when a new psychedelic aesthetic emerged in art, music, film, architecture, graphic design, and fashion. Through September 16.
Whitney Museum, NYC
800.WHITNEY; www.whitney.org |
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Image 1,
© Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Image 2,
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Image 3, © Isaac Abrams. Alvan Meyerowitz. |
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