Last art exhibition you visited?

[medjuck]

Ai Weiwei at Alcatraz. I can't imagine a better site specific show.

[mjazzg]

Here's one I'd like to see:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/27/sonia-delaunay-avant-garde-queen-art-fashion-vibrant-tate-modern

Absolutely. On my list, near the top

Made it. Stunning. A colour overload. I found the work with textiles some of the most rewarding. I'll be making a return trip to this one

[mikeweil]

Monet and the Impressionists at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. Link

Great opportunity for a German to see some of the US based paintings.

Edited May 26, 2015 by mikeweil

[sidewinder]

Off to check out the exhibition of 'Turner's Wessex' in Salisbury tomorrow. Salisbury Cathedral, Fonthill and Stourhead. Should be good !

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turners-wessex-architecture-and-ambition

Edited May 28, 2015 by sidewinder

[BFrank]

Just got back from London. Saw both the Diebenkorn and Delaunay shows as well as a great Sargent exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery that we were lucky to catch just before it ended. All were excellent, and highlights of the trip.

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends

[A Lark Ascending]

Off to check out the exhibition of 'Turner's Wessex' in Salisbury tomorrow. Salisbury Cathedral, Fonthill and Stourhead. Should be good !

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turners-wessex-architecture-and-ambition

I was there on Sunday - well worth the trip.

Nice book as well (which I restrained from buying).

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I'm in London for a few days in August so will pull in one or two visits to galleries. This is the one I particularly want to see:

Eric Ravillious at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2015/april/ravilious/?gclid=CPnni-yy5sUCFQTLtAodOHEAwg

I think one or two people here might have already been - I'm sure I've seen it mentioned.

Edited May 29, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[sidewinder]

Off to check out the exhibition of 'Turner's Wessex' in Salisbury tomorrow. Salisbury Cathedral, Fonthill and Stourhead. Should be good !

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turners-wessex-architecture-and-ambition

I was there on Sunday - well worth the trip.

Nice book as well (which I restrained from buying).

Change of plan - looks iffy weatherwise out there today so I'll defer it. Just down the road so no big deal and it looks as if it is 'on' until September. Good to hear that it lives up to expectations though and I might even be tempted to get the book !

Edited May 29, 2015 by sidewinder

[A Lark Ascending]

Throwing it down here - though Saturday is supposed to be good according to the weather forecast. I might do my long planned trip up to Haworth - I have the semaphore flags ready.

[sidewinder]

I might do my long planned trip up to Haworth - I have the semaphore flags ready.

Watch out for fascist car-park attendants !

[page]

I went to the 'late Rembrandt' exhibition in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this month. It was beautiful. Very crowded exhibiton though since it was probably a once in a life time moment all of this work was brought together in this exhibiton. I plan to go to the Rijks again later this year to see the rest of the museum again with a bit fewer people there I hope.

[BFrank]

I went to the 'late Rembrandt' exhibition in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this month. It was beautiful. Very crowded exhibiton though since it was probably a once in a life time moment all of this work was brought together in this exhibiton. I plan to go to the Rijks again later this year to see the rest of the museum again with a bit fewer people there I hope.

Saw that in London last Fall - it was VERY good!

[Leeway]

Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye

June 28 – October 4, 2015

 

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

 

I've always enjoyed Caillebotte, and this exhibit brings more Caillebotte together than I've seen before. Those off-angle paintings still produce a luscious vertigo. 

[BillF]

Terry Frost exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery today. I like those 1950s abstracts.

[mjazzg]

Terry Frost exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery today. I like those 1950s abstracts.

Heard good things about that exhibition. I recently saw some Frosts at Abbot Hall in Kendal. Their St Ives show is small but perfectly formed. There's another one on at Pallant House in Chichester which I hope to see soon - easier than Leeds

[alankin]

Terry Frost exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery today. I like those 1950s abstracts.

Interesting.  I'll have to look him up.

[Larry Kart]

Just got back from London, where I paid my first visit to the Wallace Collection. Wow.

 

This "Cupid and Pysche" from the Collection just blew my mind:

http://www.wallacecollection.org/whatson/treasure/74

 

My close-up is below.

Edited August 5, 2015 by Larry Kart

[Larry Kart]

This Vuillard at the National Gallery, "Madame Wormser and Her Children," also was a mind blower:

Edited August 5, 2015 by Larry Kart

[ejp626]

Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye

June 28 – October 4, 2015

 

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

 

I've always enjoyed Caillebotte, and this exhibit brings more Caillebotte together than I've seen before. Those off-angle paintings still produce a luscious vertigo. 

Sounds terrific.  Wish I could make it, but know that I can't.  I did, however, see a massive Caillebotte exhibit in 1995 or so.

I have to admit, the current exhibit at the AGO (Picturing the Americas) leaves me cold.  I found very little of interest until the last room or two where it moves away from traditional landscape painting.

On the other hand, I was just in Ottawa and saw Marc Chagall: Daphnis and Chloe at the National Gallery, which I thought was pretty fascinating.  It appears they managed to put all the plates from a complete edition up on the walls:

http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/exhibitions/current/details/chagall-daphnis-chloe-8754

[mjazzg]

Agnes Martin retrospective at Tate Modern

I knew next to nothing about her or her work before entering the galleries. I came away spellbound, clutching the catalogue to learn more. Works of great rigour and beauty

[mjazzg]

Joseph Cornell - Wanderlust. Royal Academy of Arts

a very thought provoking introduction to this artist's work. Certainly left me wanting to know more about the man behind the art. With my post above it seems that this summer is one of discovery of American artists whom I feel I should have already known more than I did

Last weekend. A trip to Tate Liverpool to see Jackson Pollock - Blind Spots

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/jackson-pollock-blind-spots

Well I knew plenty about this artist but the focus on the later works provided a good show (and Liverpool's always worth a visit)

[ejp626]

Just stopped by the Milwaukee Art Museum.  The main collection is all being reinstalled, but they have a pretty great special exhibit from the Albright-Knox Museum.  It runs through Sept. 20.

[BFrank]

Went to the Getty last week and saw Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic Worlds. Not something I'm usually attracted to, but we took a docent tour and they were fascinating. 

[Leeway]

Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael (1566–1638)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

            

I found the exhibition devoted to this Utrecht Mannerist painter quite fascinating. This review from the NY Times gives a good idea of what Wtewael's work is like:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/arts/design/review-joachim-wtewaels-provocative-and-puzzling-paintings-at-the-national-gallery.html?_r=0

 

[Leeway]

Made a quick trip up to NYC this weekend, and found time to take in the new and very hip Whitney, now located on the far lower west side of Manhattan, along the Green Line walkway. Great atmosphere in and around the museum, with lots of exciting design elements. I caught the newly opened Frank Stella retrospective, which was a real eye opener.  Had no idea that Stella produced such variegated work, but after moving through the exhibit several times, I stopped worrying about his seeming will o' the wisp quality and started enjoying--immensely-- the painterly quality and inventiveness of the work. A very enjoyable show. Plus there were some good selections from the permanent collection on view, as well as an exhibition"Archibald Motley, Jazz Age Modernist," which was interesting (Archibald was uncle to novelist Willard Motley).  Some Stella and Motley below. 

 

[danasgoodstuff]

Went to the Albright Knox when I was in Buffalo last week and was reminded that I once had a work exhibited there when I was in Kindergarten or 1st grade.