Monday, January 9, 2012

2012 Museum Exhibition Overview + New England Lobster Bake


Explore the subject of the tree in Jewish tradition through the lens of contemporary artists. 
Courtesy Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
ART:
2012
A Look at this year's
Museum Exhibitions
LUCIAN FREUD: PORTRAITS
July 1–October 28, 2012
Ft. Worth, TX

Courtesy The Modern

JENNY HOLZER
"Venice Installation"
(in Second Antechamber)
Bentonville, AR

Courtesy Crystal Bridges


Weegee: Murder is My Business
Jan 20 – Sept 2
NYC

Courtesy International Center of Photography

The Ungovernables
February 15 – April 22
NYC

Courtesy The New Museum

Dan Flavin: Drawing
Feb 17 – July 1
NYC
Dan Flavindrawn proposals for "in memory of Sandy Calder. Courtesy of The Morgan Library and Museum.

John Chamberlain: Choices
Feb 24 – May 13
NYC
Courtesy Guggenheim Museum

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
Feb 28 – June 3
NYC
Including paintings and prints by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Édouard Manet, and Auguste Renoir, etc. 
Also check out Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City on the Met roof.

Keith Haring: 1978-1982
March 16 – July 8
NYC

Courtesy The Brooklyn Museum
Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
May 4 – Sept 23
NYC

Courtesy The Jewish Museum

Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
June 1 – Dec 1
NYC

Courtesy el Museo del Barrio

This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s
February 11 – June 3

Jeff Koons, Rabbit
Courtesy Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago

Roy Lichtenstein
May 16 – September 3

Courtesy
The Art Institute of Chicago

Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought
Feb 16 – June 30
San Francisco, CA

Courtesy The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Rineke Dijkstra
February 18 – May 26
San Francisco, CA

Courtesy SFMMA

State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970
Feb 29 – June 17
Berkeley, 
CA

Courtesy Berkeley Art Museum

Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964
March 3 – June 3
San Francisco, CA

Courtesy de Young Museum
1945-1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy
Jan 22 – May 20
LA, CA




ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW: SCULPTURE UNDONE, 1955-1972
Feb 6 – April 29 
LA, California


Courtesy The Hammer Museum

Robert Adams: The Place We Live
March 11 – June 3
LA, California

Courtesy LACMA


Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974
April 8 – July 30
LA, California
The first large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition to deal broadly with Land art, capturing the simultaneous impulse emergent in the 1960s to use the earth as an artistic medium and to locate works in remote sites far from familiar art contexts. (no photo available) 

Rita Ackermann
March 15 – May 6
Miami
One of the few contemporary artists to discuss her work in terms of "style" rather than practice, Ackermann has forged a new visual language in painting, drawing and collages, which ranges from psychologically intense expressionism to colorfield abstraction. (no photo available)

The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl
March 18 – June 10
Miami

Courtesy Miami Art Museum

Charles Ledray
April 6 – July 1
Miami


Courtesy Bass Museum

Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape
May 6 – Aug 12
Washington, DC


Courtesy National Gallery of Art
(Sources: All listed museum web sites / press departments)

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Until later,
Jack
ARTSnFOOD, All rights reserved. Concept & Original Text © Copyright 2012 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

1 comment:

  1. Excellent post, Jacque! as always. Love this one in particular, though.

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