Jason Rogenes, Locus, 2006
The artwork featured in this group exhibition draws attention to the minutiae of our material environment. Works by Diana Cooper, Tara Donovan, Charles Goldman, Jason Rogenes, Jane South and Phoebe Washburn will be shown in the gallery and the Sculpture Court of the Whitney’s branch at Altria. The exhibition was organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, formerly a senior curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art and now curatorial associate, painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
MEET THE ARTISTS
The artists featured in Burgeoning Geometries will discuss their work on February 19, 2007 at 5:30 p.m.
Free admission. Reservations are not required; seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call (917)663-2645.
Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria
120 Park Avenue at 42nd Street
New York, NY
Telephone: (800) WHITNEY
Web site: www.whitney.org/
Three exhibits at the Musée d’Orsay place a spotlight on the work of French writer and painter Maurice Denis (1870-1943), Symbolist and theorist of the Nabi movement. Denis’s style was influenced by Gauguin. His works include landscapes and portraits, but his primary interest was religious subjects. Visitors to the museum will be able to view approximately 100 paintings from the years 1889-1941; photographs he took of family members and friends; and illustrations created for Paul Verlaine’s Sagesse, religious poems that reflect the poet’s conversion to Catholicism, and for St. Francis of Assisi’s Fioretti, or “little flowers.”
Musée d’Orsay
62, rue de Lille
Paris, France
Telephone: (33) 1 40 49 48 14
Web site: www.musee-orsay.fr
Known for the dramatic compositions and skillful execution of his book illustrations, particularly those for the “Doré Bible” (1865), Gustave Doré (1832-1883) was a celebrated artist at the height of his career at the end of the nineteenth century. Doré’s subject matter ranged from allegories and biblical subjects to realistic portrayals of life in the nineteenth century.
Showcased at the Dahesh Museum will be 12 of Doré’s paintings, drawings and illustrated books, including a copy of the Doré Bible. Later this year, Fantasy and Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré will be published by Yale University Press (May, 2007), to which Lisa Small, associate curator of the Dahesh, contributed.
Dahesh Museum
580 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Telephone: (212) 759-0606
Web site: www.daheshmuseum.org
Joan Miró’s career is a fascinating study charting the growth of an artist determined to use his art as a form of protest, a dialogue with himself and an examination of art and culture. Miró’s life and art changed significantly after 1956 when he moved to a studio designed for him in Palma. Concentrating at first on ceramic murals for the Unesco building in Paris, he stopped painting. In organizing his new studio, he reorganized his life, reconsidering his earlier work and destroying some of it. When he returned to painting, the extra studio space inspired large-scale works. In 1966, Miró traveled to Japan, another pivotal experience that profoundly affected his aesthetic. This show marks the changes in the artist and his works from 1956 through the end of Miró’s life.
Fundació Joan Miró
Parc de Montjuïc, s/n
Barcelona, Spain
Telephone: (34) 934.439.470
Web site: www.bcn.fjmiro.es
More than 2,000 examples of decorative art from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century are on view at The Museum of of Art Nouveau and Art Déco of Salamanca. The collection originated with Salamanca native Manuel Ramos Andrade, an antique dealer, and has expanded in recent years with new acquisitions.
Museo Art Nouveau y Art Decó
Calle Gibraltar, 14
Salamanca, Spain
Telephone: (34) 923 12 14 25
Web site: www.museocasalis.org
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
For the painter and the photographer, there are certain variables and approaches that must be considered and decided upon: compositional dynamic, balance, background and foreground elements, focus, etc. This program explores the degree to which painters and photographers develop and play with these variables and, specifically, how O’Keeffe did so. The discussion will highlight her relationship to photographers and particular photographs.
Note: This event will be held at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex, 123 Grant Avenue.
Free admission. Reservations are suggested; call (505) 946-1007.
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Telephone: (505) 946-1000
Web site: www.okeeffemuseum.org
Jan 13, 2007
Alex Katz Paints Ada
In 1957, American painter Alex Katz met Ada Del Moro, who became his model, muse and wife. Katz’s paintings exemplify the modern painters art: In his portraits, he explored the range of his medium; allowed his model to collaborate and contribute to an unspoken narrative; and left plenty of room for viewers of the works to participate in the creation of a story.
Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
Telephone: (212) 423-3200
Web site: www.jewishmuseum.org
October 27, 2006 - March 18, 2007
Thirty-five of Strand’s photographs from the summer of 1930 through 1932 were selected by Anthony Montoya, director of the Paul Strand Archive at the Aperture Foundation for this show, which premiered at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Strand (1890-1972) is a key figure in the history of modernist photography. Included here are landscapes that highlight the dynamic between earth and sky in the Southwest; photographs of Strand’s wife that reveal the push-and-pull that led to their separation in 1932; and architectural details (abandoned homesteads and towns) viewed with emotional distance for a stark sense of clarity. The final stop for this traveling exhibit is the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, Washington.
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Telephone: (505) 946-1000
Web site: www.okeeffemuseum.org
The 16th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), a collaboration between the Jewish Museum and Film Society of Lincoln Center, opens January 10 and runs through January 25.
For a list of films, go to: www.thejewishmuseum.org
Unless otherwise noted, screenings will be held at: Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, 165 West 65 St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, plaza level.
Due to construction at Lincoln Center, please walk west on 65th Street for Walter Reade Theater access.
World Cinema at New York Jewish Film Festival
January 10-25, 2007
June Weir, Jason Palmer, Clair Watson, Patricia Hambrick, Robert Bryan and Eric Javits explore the status of the handbag.
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
Telephone: (212) 534-1672
Web site: www.mcny.org
January 13, 2007, 2 p.m.
