Posts Tagged ‘Museum exhibitions’
Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time at George Eastman Museum
For more than forty years, photographer Eugene Richards has explored complicated subjects such as racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. Until now, his work has been known primarily through international news and media outlets, for which he created images on…
Read MoreSTILLNESS: DRAWINGS BY SKIP STEINWORTH at Evansville Museum
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t making drawings. Some of my earliest memories are from family summer vacations at my parent’s friends’ lake cabin, watching my father sketch the dock or the boat house or the potbellied stove. To me, it seemed like magic; I wanted to be able to do it myself. For…
Read MoreTom Bamberger “Hyperphotographic” at Museum of Wisconsin Art
For the first time in history, the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) will dedicate all four of its changing exhibition spaces to the work of a single artist – Tom Bamberger. Hyperphotographic is Bamberger’s first major retrospective which will feature more than 100 photographs – some up to 35’ in scale. MOWA will open the…
Read MoreDavid Wiesner & The Art of Wordless Storytelling at Santa Barbara Museum Of Art
David Wiesner & The Art of Wordless Storytelling is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to this internationally recognized master of the picture book. The exhibition includes nearly 70 original watercolors handmade by David Wiesner (b. 1956) for nine of his most famous books, including three for which he won the prestigious Caldecott Medal: Tuesday (1992),…
Read MoreVirginia Beahan at Joslyn Art Museum
Virginia Beahan’s photographs tell a story that is at once demanding, joyous, surprising, and painful. In the fall of 2002, Beahan and her husband helped her 88-year-old mother, Jeanne Cadwallader, sell her house in Yardley, Pennsylvania, and moved her to their home in rural New Hampshire. In failing health, her mother’s doctors believed she would…
Read MoreVOSTELL CONCRETE 1969–1973 at Smart Museum of Art
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fluxus co-founder Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) used concrete as an actual material and an artistic motif in a surprising, unique body of work that includes the colossal sculpture Concrete Traffic. David Katzive, installation view of Wolf Vostell’s Concrete Traffic, January 1970. (Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.…
Read More“Cats and Hats” and “Turtle Power! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Samurai Heroes” at the Springfield Museums
Next summer, the Springfield Museums will open The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss, the first museum to honor Springfield native Theodor Geisel. In anticipation of that momentous occasion, the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts will exhibit a series of whimsical works on paper around the common theme of “Cats in Hats,” in…
Read MoreRineke Dijkstra: Rehearsals and The Lives of Other: Portraits from the Photography Collection at Milwaukee Art Museum
Over the past 30 years, Dijkstra has produced a sensitive and eloquent body of photographic and video work. In her large-scale photographs and video installations, she is particularly interested in moments of transition, especially adolescence, a time when individuals build their own identities and begin to present themselves in the way they wish to…
Read MoreHumanism + Dynamite = The Soviet Photomontages of Aleksandr Zhitomirsky at the The Art Institute of Chicago
“What gives the strength of dynamite to the photo-poster and pamphlet? First of all, its motto is humanism. And, of course, the ability to see in subjects something new, that which others do not see, but that they should by all means see.”—Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, The Art of Political Photomontage, 1983 Zhitomirsky began publishing drawings in…
Read More“Impressions of War” at the Saint Louis Art Museum
The Saint Louis Art Museum will present Impressions of War, an exhibition featuring The Disasters of War, Francisco de Goya’s 80-plate contemplation of war and its aftereffects, as well as additional series of prints by three artists whose works equally respond to the darker side of war and its aftermath. Francisco José de Goya…
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