Modern Art CalendarGuide to Modern Art Exhibits Around the World |
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Through September 7, 2008 Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa |
This is the first exhibition to explore the influence of Surrealism on the world of design: theatre, interiors, fashion, film, architecture, and advertising. It presents furniture, paintings, sculpture, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, textiles, photography, and film in five thematic sections. It also provides a historical framework for the movement, underscoring major exhibitions and events. Showcasing approximately 250 objects drawn from public and private collections worldwide—many of which have never been exhibited before—Surreal Things emphasizes the tensions that arose from the increasing commercialization of Surrealism’s visual aesthetic.
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Exhibits by Location United States Chicago, Il Milwaukee, WI
Bilbao, Spain Paris, France *Upcoming Exhibit  Place de la Concorde, rare 1974 etching by Salvador Dali, Artist Proof at www.daliartweb.com  Martin Margulies: Over the years I have collected paintings, sculpture, and occasionally prints come my way to evaluate. Not knowledgeable in this field there's no one I respect more than Jerry Bengis to give me an accurate, honest evaluation. Read more on DaliArtBlog |
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Toward Abstraction: Works on Paper Through September 8, 2008 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
This exhibition gleaned from the museum's collection of Modernist art on paper follows the course of early 20th-century avant-garde artists, from Cubism, Orphism, Expressionism, Der Blaue Reiter, Dada, and the Bauhaus, to Surrealism. Featuring work by influential artists from each movement—Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Ernst Kirchner, František Kupka, Fernand Léger, Franz Marc, Joan Miró, László Moholy-Nagy, and Kurt Schwitters the show exhibits the depth of the collection.
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The Collection III: Summer Edition Through September 14, 2008 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art |
Many of the museums works are masterpieces often on loan to museums all around the world. In this anniversary year the museum has kept the best at home to show the best of the collection. This summer exhibit features Pop Art, German art from the 1980s and contemporary art spanning media from painting, sculpture and drawings to contemporary photography and video installations. Artists include: David Hockney, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Asger Jorn, Jean Dubuffet, Francis Picabia, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Tinguely, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Bill Viola, Olaf Breuning, Andreas Gursky, Yves Tanguy, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Henri Michaux, Lucebert and Matta.
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June 29 - September 15, 2008 |
With more than 130 works by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) including paintings, drawings, scenarios, and films, this exhibition explores the role that cinema played in the artist's work. Paintings include The First Days of Spring and Illumined Pleasures. Dalí's work was strongly influenced by his passion for film. Collaborations between Dalí and legendary filmmakers are displayed with his paintings and other works. Among the works on display are Un Chien andalo and L'Age d'Or, both films made with Luis Buñuel, as well as projects with Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. The MoMA theaters present the classic and avant-garde films Dalí treasured, films on which he collaborated, and examples of his legacy in contemporary cinema.
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Through September 21. 2008 Salvador Dali Museum |
Over 90 works from the permanent collection representative of Dalí’s various creations of the female image. The selected works trace the progression of Dalí’s depiction of women from his early student days to when Gala became his primary model and muse. As a young man, Dali’s sister Ana María was a frequent model. Girl's Back (1926) depicts Ana Maria’s head as viewed from behind in a Renaissance style. By 1928, Dalí's more experimental style became more disconcerting and fragmented. Dalí's treatment of the female during the Surrealist period is at times disturbingly erotic and again maternal. In a mid-career work, Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces (1938), Dalí treats the three female figures as the Three Fates. His wife, Gala who became his exclusive model, is shown in this exhibition in the many guises of woman.
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Matisse and Beyond: Ongoing Exhibition San Francisco Museum of |
SFMOMA's modern and contemporary art holdings include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some of the 20th and 21st centuries' most celebrated artists. The selection currently on view features works by Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Joan Mitchell, Roy Lichtenstein, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Diego Rivera, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, among other artists.
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Everything's Here: Jeff Koons and his experience of Chicago Through October 26, 2008 Museum of Contemporary Art |
Everything's Here is an exhibition focusing on the art and artists who interested and influenced Jeff Koons during his years as a young artist in Chicago where he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975-76.
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Through October 26, 2008 weather permitting Metropolitan Museum of Art |
If you can't get to Chicago to see the Koons exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art (see above)here is another opportunity to see his work. This sculpture installation by Koons is in the Roof Garden where you can see three never before exhibited sculptures by Koons as well as Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. Read our blog entry about Jeff Koons: On the Roof
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Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A.: Selections from the Cheech Marin Collection Through November 2, 2008 Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
LACMA hosts the Cheech Marin collection, notable for classic examples of Chicano art from the beginning of the Chicano movement to the present concentrating on painting from the 1980s and 90s. This exhibition includes widely exhibited works by first-generation Chicano artists as Carlos Almaraz, Margaret Garcia, Gilbert “Magu” Luján, Frank Romero, John Valadez, and Patssi Valdez, as well as works by younger artists Vincent Valdez and David Flury. Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A. is a Los Angeles-focused selection of Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, an exhibition of the Marin collection that toured nationally between 2001 and 2007.
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Through November 2, 2008 Philadelphia Museum of Art December 9, 2008 - March 1, 2009 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Recognized as one of America’s most innovative modern artists, Alexander Calder (1898–1976) redefined sculpture through his mobiles and stabiles. His metal jewelry is less known. Calder produced more than 1,800 jewelry works of art, each made entirely by hand. This is the first exhibition of about one hundred pieces is devoted exclusively to his unique jewelry work, and includes necklaces, bracelets, brooches, earrings, and tiaras. As in all his work, Calder’s incorporated his love of abstraction into his jewelry which is what sets the jewelry apart. Wearing Calder's jewelry initiates a performance, sometimes caused by the fantasy of the jewelry itself or the activation of a necklace or earrings by the wearer’s movement, as if the jewelry were a mobile for the body.
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July 3 - November 3, 2008 The Museum of Modern Art |
While Pablo Picasso is known for painting, his sculptures were revolutionary. The first comprehensive exhibition of Picasso's sculpture was in 1966, when Picasso was eighty-five years old. This exhibit provides a survey of his sculpture through selections from The Museum of Modern Art's collection. Picasso donated his sheet-metal construction Guitar (1914), on view here, to the Museum in 1971. The sculpture Woman's Head (Fernande) (1909) is also on view. In succeeding Picasso abandoned modeling for assemblage and construction. He incorporated everyday objects into his sculpture similar to his use of found materials in famous collage works.
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September 26 - February 1, 2008 Tate Modern
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Tate Modern presents the first significant exhibition of the work of Mark Rothko to be held in the UK for over 20 years. Tate Modern's iconic 'Rothko Room' works are reunited for the first time with works from Japan. The Seagram Murals were originally commissioned for The Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building New York. Rothko’s paintings, composed of color saturated, soft-edged rectangles, are among the most enduring created by an artist in modern times. His paintings radiate deep dark reds, oranges, maroons, browns, blacks, and grays. The exhibition will also focus on other work in series, such as the Black-Form paintings, his large-scale Brown and Gray works on paper, and his last series of Black on Gray paintings, created in the final decade of his life from 1958-1970.
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Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939 September 23 - December 7, 2008 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
"Rhythms of Modern Life will be the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II." Featuring 14 artists, the exhibit showcases works inspired by Vorticism, the 20th century abstract British art movement. These artists are the early followers of Futurism and the later color linocut artists of the esteemed Grosvenor School of Art in London. The exhibition features graphic works celebrating the "vitality and dynamism of modern life." Edward Wadsworth woodcuts, C. R. W. Nevinson’s Futurist etchings and Cyril Power’s vibrantly colored linocuts. Accompanied by a catalog. Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, 2nd floor.
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Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night September 21, 2008 - January 5, 2009 The Museum of Modern Art |
Throughout his career, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) attempted to represent night by light. This exhibition presents "new insight into Van Gogh's depictions of night landscapes, interior scenes, and the effects of both gaslight and natural light on their surroundings." Representing all periods of his career, the exhibition comprises over two dozen works, several never before exhibited together. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. This exhibition will be shown at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, February 13–June 7, 2009.
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Joan Miró: Painiting & Anti-Painitng November 2, 2008 - January 12, 2009 The Museum of Modern Art |
The first museum exhibit to explore the decade between 1927 and 1937, a period of dramatic change in his career. "The exhibition explores twelve of Miró’s sustained series from this decade, beginning with a 1927 group of works on canvas that appears to be raw and concluding with 1937’s singular, hallucinatory painting, Still Life with Old Shoe.' "Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, purposeful stylistic heterogeneity, and the use of collage and readymade materials are among the aggressive tactics that Miró used in pursuit of his goal." A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition."
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December 5, 2008–February 16, 2009 The Museum of Modern Art |
This exhibition is In celeberation of the acquisition of a new series of works on paper by Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930). "The series constitutes a highly illuminating display of the artist's creative process and will be seen in the context of other works, in a variety of mediums, which demonstrate Johns's longstanding practice of reinvestigating a repertoire of images, including flags, numerals, cross-hatchings, body parts, and studies of the four seasons."
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Through March 1, 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art |
This exhibit of Calder’s mobiles, stabiles, drawings, and paintings demonstrate the artist’s development during his 50-year career. Calder combined colorful shapes taken from nature with an interest in mechanics to create whimsical mobiles that move with air currents. Although Calder's began his career as in drawing and painting, he is best known for his stabiles, mobiles, and large-scale sculptures.
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Through March 16, 2009 Centre Pompidou |
After two thematic exhibitions, the Centre Pompidou Museum will be showing its masterpieces as part of two new chronological presentations, occupying all of the 4th and 5th floors. The modern collections with over 1,300 works to highlight the artists and the works of the first half of the 20th century, and to present the museum's latest acquisitions in the field, followed by the contemporary collections.
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April 25, 2008 - March 30, 2009 The Museum of Modern Art |
The Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) Ateliers laboratories produced furnishings and pre-fab buildings through the collaborative efforts of a skilled creative team. "The installation focuses on the evolution of the "Standard" Chair and includes other examples of furniture and buildings that demonstrate Prouvé's approach to construction and his sensitive handling of materials—particularly his inventive applications of sheet metal."
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Ongoing Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
Due to the influence of Hilla Rebay, the Guggenheim's first director, who encouraged Solomon R. Guggenheim to begin collecting Kandinsky’s work in 1929, Vasily Kandinsky has been closely linked to the Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim met the artist for the first time at the Dessau Bauhaus in July 1930. This began a period of acquisition of paintings and watercolors by Kandinsky. This installation of the Kandinsky Gallery exhibits Kandinsky's early grasp of the graphic arts, as well as his translation of printmaking techniques to painting.
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