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15-page (.pdf) lists of 2016-17 exhibitions in the US and EUROPE: An excellent resource for planning and travel!
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| Join art historian Karen Pope for study tours, day trips, and informal luncheon programs to expand your horizons or fill gaps in your world of art. No background or experience is necessary--just curiosity!
Upcoming events, near and far, offer art history experiences in the good company of companions with similar interests.
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| Karen LaMonte, Chado, 2010 (Oklahoma City Museum of Art) |
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| 2017 Luncheon Series at Westwood Country Club:
Great Collectors & Their Collections, part 2
Beautiful images, art history, food, and good company, in the Garden Room (capacity: 80)
at Westwood Country Club in west Austin.
(Address: 3808 W. 35th Street, adjacent to Laguna Gloria at the western end of 35th Street)
10:30am coffee and conversation
11:00 illustrated program
12:00 seated luncheon (dietary restrictions accommodated with advance communication)
Cost per luncheon program in the 2017 series is $40 per person.
"Series subscription" option: $300 for series of 8 programs
Preregistration is expected; deadline for registration is the preceding Friday.
Your check is your reservation. Make checks payable to Karen Pope Art inSight and mail to:
PO Box 5730
Austin TX 78763-5730
Please include your email address in order to receive a confirmation and other material.
Additional notes welcome on the check: exact date you are attending; VEG or GF lunch request
Schedule of Dates and Topics:
(Each topic presented one Thursday and one Friday--specify your choice of dates when registering)
| • Isabella Stewart Gardner (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) |
January 5 - 6
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| • Henry Clay Frick (Frick Museum, New York City) |
February 23 - 24 |
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• Samuel Courtauld (The Courtauld Institute, London)
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March 9 - 10
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• Albert Barnes (Barnes Collection, Philadelphia)
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April 6 - 7
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• Norton Simon (Norton Simon Collection, Pasadena)
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May 11 - 12 |
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| • Wilhelm Hansen (Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark) |
June 8 - 9 |
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• Maud & Chester Dale (National Gallery, Washington) registration open
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August 17-18 |
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• Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid)
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October 5 - 6 |
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| James Jacquest Joseph Tissot, Tourists in London, 1874 |
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| Past series:
2016 Great Collectors and Their Collections, part 1
2015 Japan & the West
2014 9 Great Cities and Their Depiction by Artists
2013 Back to the Birthdays, Artists in Their Birthday Months
2012 The World's Great Buildings: Milestones in Architecture
2011 Women in Art/Art of Women
2010 Art of Nations: Survey of Art History, One Country at a Time
2009 Angels, Saints and Their Friends in Art History
2008 Time Capsules: A Survey of Seven Centuries
2007 Un-Birthday Parties (for great artists with inconvenient birthdates)
1995-2006 Birthday Parties for great artists, on their true birthdays
Potential themes for forthcoming series:Perspectives on Movies about Great ArtistsA Year with Prints: Basics of the major printmaking processes, handling examples, studio and collection visitsArt History Survey: Prehistory through the PresentGreat Works in each medium, one medium at a time, emphasis on process and effect (marble, etching, tempera, etc.)
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Things to watch for . . .
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| "Mr Turner," a film by Mike Lee that got raves at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival; Austin American-Statesman gave the film an "A" (rarely happens)
A review from the screening at Cannes: http://www.deadline.com/tag/mr-turner/
Trailer: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony/mrturner/
Note from Karen: This movie did not meet my expectations (by a long shot) but the sets and the photography were splendid.
BETTER recent MOVIES about art and history:
“The Best Offer” (2013)
Geoffrey Rush plays a master auctioneer (appraiser and collector--there's lots of art!) who becomes obsessed with an extremely reclusive heiress who collects fine art.
Final scenes are set in Prague . . .
"Woman in Gold" (2015) is outstanding! A compelling movie based on the real story of Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
"Miss Hokusai" (2015)
Animation with *subtitles, telling the story of the life and works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, as seen from the eyes of his daughter, Katsushika O-Ei; a version of the story told in the excellent novel by Katherine Govier, The Printmaker's Daughter (2011)
*Showing in Austin without subtitles--but possibly better with them, since the voiceovers make Hokusai sound like a thug and O-Ei sound terminally disgruntled. Thin plot, flat characters, but beautiful imagery--must consider the origins of Animé to really "get it," I think.
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WSJ review of "Mr Turner" |
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Texas Museum Exhibition Recommendations and Special Events
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| Abner Cook, Neill-Cochran House Museum, 1855 |
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AUSTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.blantonmuseum.org
AMOA-ARTHOUSE (Austin Museum of Art) ♦ http://amoa-arthouse.org
HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER at UT-AUSTIN ♦ http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center (through July 16, 2017)
The Harry Ransom Center presents stories of inspiration, adaptation, innovation, confrontation, collaboration, and frustration, selected from its extensive cultural collections. The Ransom Center's rich holdings highlight the struggles, the complexity, and the rewards of creative work in literature, art, photography, film, and the performing arts. This exhibition of more than 250 items includes, among many others, David Foster Wallace, Julia Alvarez, and Gabriel García Márquez manuscripts, Henri Matisse's Jazz, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's spirit photographs, and the hat that accompanied the green "curtain" dress worn by Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind.
NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM ♦ www.nchmuseum.org
The NCHM's major structural renovation is complete and, for the first time in 50 years, this Greek Revival mansion has bright paint, splendid wallpaper, and Cochran furnishings in new bedroom installations. A new exhibition explores the Museum's portrait collection and throughout 2014, the NCHM will celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of major early-Austin figure and Master Builder, Abner Cook
The Woman Must Marry Else How Live? (March 2 - December 2017)
Wedding clothing, photographs, etiquette, accessories--a multi-dimensional examination of marriage c. 1900.
"Modern Times," the well-attended lecture series featuring a decade (each annual series) in the life of the Neill-Cochran House and relating it to Austin, Texas, and the wider world, has ended for this year. 2017-2018 will likely take us into the 1970s
UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org
CORPUS CHRISTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS ♦ www.stia.org
DALLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
unintended italics cannot be corrected! ugh.
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ♦ www.kimbellart.org
A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection (May 14 - August 13, 2017)
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH ♦ www.themodern.org
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME ♦ www.cowgirl.net
SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM Celebrating Remington & Russell ♦ www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org
Hide & Horn on the Chisholm Trail (through August 27, 2017)
A cattle trail-era focus exhibition featuring collectors' items that honor and illuminate the greatest migration of livestock in world history. Displays include an 1873 trail map and guidebook for drovers, one of the four most important books on the cattle industry and one of the best books about the Texas Longhorn cattle breed during the 19th century.
SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ♦ www.swbts.edu/
HOUSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.mfah.org
BAYOU BEND A Unique Gathering of Americana ♦ www.mfah.org/bayoubend
RIENZI A Home for European Decorative Arts ♦ www.mfah.org/rienzi
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS ♦ http://asiasociety.org/texas
MENIL COLLECTION ♦ www.menil.org
CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM ♦ www.camh.org
HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT ♦ www.crafthouston.org
THE PEARL [The Pearl Fincher MFA, Cypress Creek/Spring TX] ♦ www.pearlmfa.org
ORANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
STARK MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.starkmuseum.org/
THE W. H. STARK HOUSE ♦ http://www.whstarkhouse.org/
The 14,000 square-foot three-story house built in 1894 by William Henry Stark and his wife, Miriam M. Lutcher Stark, prominent philanthropists who occupied the home until 1936, was designed in the Queen Anne architectural style. It house features a distinctive turret, stained glass windows, and ornate woodwork in cypress and long leaf yellow pine.
As a historic house museum (National Register of Historic Places) it is interpreted to c. 1900 with fifteen rooms of original family furnishings, personal effects and decorative arts, including antique rugs, original textiles, silver, cut glass, and antique porcelain. Also featured are the Stark family’s impressive collections of American Brilliant Period cut glass, pressed and pattern glass, milk glass, porcelains, and other 18th and 19th century decorative accessories.
SAN ANGELO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SAN ANGELO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.samfa.org
SAN ANTONIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Magic of Clay and Fire: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics (through Fall 2017)
A dozen highly individual works, including some amazing glazes . . . .
Historic houses at the Witte:
- The Ruiz House was the home of the city’s first schoolmaster
- The Twohig House was built in 1841 by Irishman John Twohig
- The Navarro House was built in 1835 by Jose Antonio Navarro
- The Log Cabin was constructed in 1939 by 30 youths participating in President Roosevelt’s National Youth Administration program. The “dog trot” style cabin represents the type of cabin built by many Texas pioneers.
WACO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MARTIN MUSEUM OF ART • www.baylor.edu/martinmuseum/
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| Honoré Daumier, On a Bridge at Night, 1845-48 (Phillips Collection) |
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| Auguste Rodin, study for Balzac |
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Attractive Special Exhibitions beyond Texas
Not meant to be a thorough list, just items of interest ...
NB: Italics below are a glitch, not meaningful ...
FOR COMPREHENSIVE LISTS, US and EUROPE, see .pdfs at the right; search by your destination city
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| Paul Gauguin, Bretonne Eve, 1889, pastel (McNay) |
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BALTIMORE
Baltimore Museum of Art • https://artbma.org/
BARCELONA
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya • www.mnac.cat/
BENTONVILLE
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art • crystalbridges.org
Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House (opened November 2015)
Museum visitors will be able to walk through the house, originally built along the Millstone River in New Jersey in 1954, restored several times, and, facilitated by its New Jersey architect-owners, acquired by Crystal Bridges in 2014 and moved to Bentonville to preserve an important building and enhance the Crystal Bridges mission to "connect visitors with the power of art and the beauty of nature."
Roy Lichtenstein in Focus (through July 31, 2017)"Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein achieved prominence through his innovative use of cartoon and comic book imagery in large-scale paintings and sculpture. Like fellow artist Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein began his career as a commercial artist. This experience influenced his later paintings, prints, and sculptures, which drew on images from pop culture, such as comics and advertisements."
Chihuly: in the Gallery and In the Forest (June 3 - August 14, 2017)
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing (September 16, 2017 – January 1, 2018)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964) ranks as a preeminent figure in American modern art, with a career that stretched from the early twentieth century well into the early 1960s. Over the course of his sixty-year career, Davis invented an artistic vocabulary of bold colors and strong forms, informed by his enthusiasm for jazz.
BOSTON
Museum of Fine Arts Boston • www.mfa.org/
New Women for a New Age: Japanese Beauties, 1890s-1930s (through August 20, 2017)
"Examines the changing image of Japanese women though prints, book illustrations, and photographs made in Japan from the 1890s to the 1930s. During this crucial period of rapid modernization, traditional ideas of ideal beauty and behavior intermingled with imported styles and concepts. Arranged in roughly chronological order, the exhibition begins with ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the late Meiji era (1868–1912) and postcards that include both photographs and artists’ depictions. A recent gift of kuchi-e prints—color woodblock frontispieces for books of the early 1900s, usually romantic fiction—makes up the exhibition’s core. Shin hanga prints from the 1910s and ‘30s depict beautiful women in both traditional and modern styles. These works can be interpreted in several ways: as glamorized reflections of the lives of Japanese women during a time of rapid social change; as idealized expressions of heterosexual male desire; and as metaphorical images of Japan itself, with the young women standing in for their entire country and its search for national identity."
BREMEN
Kunsthalle • www.kunsthalle-bremen.de
CHICAGO
Art Institute of Chicago • http://www.artic.edu/
Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist (June 25 - September 10, 2017)
An exploration of Gauguin's distinctive choices of materials and processes across his oeuvre.
COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado College IDEA Space (InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts) • http://sites.coloradocollege.edu/ideaspace/
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College • http://www.csfineartscenter.org/
COPENHAGEN
National Gallery of Denmark • http://www.smk.dk/en/
DENVER
Denver Art Museum • www.denverartmuseum.org/
FLINT, MICHIGAN
Flint Institute of Arts • www.flintarts.org
GAINESVILLE
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida • harn.ufl.edu
HELSINKI
Ateneum • www.ateneum.fi
INDIANAPOLIS
Indianapolis Museum of Art • www.imamuseum.org
Indiana University Art Museum • www.artmuseum.iu.edu
LONDON
British Museum • http://www.britishmuseum.org
Courtauld Institute of Art • http://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what-on/exhibitions-displays
Bloomsbury Art & Design (through 24 September 2017)
The Courtauld Gallery cares for an important collection of early twentieth century Bloomsbury Group works including paintings, collages, drawings, watercolours and designs and decorative arts from the Omega Workshops. Most of the collection was bequeathed by Roger Fry to the newly formed Courtauld Institute of Art in 1935; Fry was the central figure of the group, which included artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. This special display brings together a wide-ranging selection of work by this remarkable group.
Leighton House Museum • https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/museums/leightonhousemuseum1.aspx
Alma-Tadema--At Home in Antiquity (July 7 - October 29, 2017)
Major international exhibition of one of the most popular and successful painters of the late 19th century, staged in the Persian-villa-studio-home of one of his good friends, the Royal Academy president and exceptionally successful painter, Frederic Lord Leighton.
National Gallery • www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Tate Britain • www.tate.org.uk
Tate Modern • http://www.tate.org
Alberto Giacometti (May 10 - September 10, 2017)
The first major retrospective of Alberto Giacometti for 20 years reasserting Giacometti’s place alongside the likes of Matisse, Picasso and Degas as one of the great painter-sculptors of the twentieth century. Through unparalleled access to the extraordinary collection and archive of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Paris, this ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition brings together over 250 works, including rarely seen plasters and drawings which have never been exhibited before.
LOS ANGELES
The Getty Center • www.getty.edu
Raphael, The Drawings (June 1 - September 3, 2017)
"The 120 drawings on display are taken from across Raphael’s brief but brilliant career, taking visitors from his early career in Umbria through his radically creative years in Florence to the period when he was at the height of his powers in Rome, working on major projects such as the Vatican frescoes. Fifty works come from the Ashmolean’s own collection, the largest and most important group of Raphael drawings in the world. The remaining drawings come from international collections . . . The exhibition aims to transform our understanding of Raphael through a focus on the immediacy and expressiveness of his drawing."
Rodin: The Centennial Exhibition (March 22 - July 31, 2017)
In observance of the 100th anniversary of the death of the 19th century's greatest sculptor, Auguste Rodin, the Rodin Museum collaborates with the immense venue of the Grand Palai to offer an exhibition that includes over 200 works by Rodin, accompanied by works of Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, Beuys, Baselitz and Gormley to illuminate Rodin's legacy and impact.
PHILADELPHIA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art • https://www.pafa.org
Philadelphia Museum of Art • www.philamuseum.org
PORTLAND (Maine)
Portland Museum of Art • www.portlandmuseum.org
A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945 (through September 8, 2017)
A look at the heavily-figural sculpture of figures between the world wars as they responded to the classical tradition: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach
Hans Hofmann: Works on Paper (through September 3, 2017)
Tours of the Winslow Homer studio at Prout's Neck:
Available from April through October, twice a day, on select days of the week (207) 775-6148
SAINT LOUISSaint Louis Art Museum • http://www.slam.org/
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts • http://pulitzerarts.org/
SALT LAKE CITY
Utah Museum of Fine Arts • umfa.utah.edu
SAN DIEGO
San Diego Museum of Art • sdmart.org
SAN FRANCISCO
De Young/Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco • http://deyoung.famsf.org
Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade (June 24 - September 24, 2017)
" . . .more than 40 Impressionist paintings and pastels, including key works by Degas, as well as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Approximately 40 spectacular examples of period hats—including nine from the Fine Arts Museums’ collections—also will be displayed."
Asian Art Museum • http://www.asianart.org
Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art (through August 27, 2017)
Civic Pride: Group Portraits from Amsterdam (through August 28, 2017)
Edvard Munch: Color in Context (September 3, 2017 - January 28, 2018)
21 prints, curated by Jonathan Bober ")
National Museum of Women in the Arts • www.nmwa.org/
Smithsonian American Art Museum • http://americanart.si.edu/
WATERVILLE, MAINE
Colby College Museum of Art • www.colby.edu/museum/
Marsden Hartley's Maine (through November 12, 2017)
Robert Indiana: Placeholder (through August 27, 2017)
In 1978, facing eviction from his long-time studio in lower Manhattan, Robert Indiana (born 1928) relocated to the island of Vinalhaven, located in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. The exhibition features select prints from this moment that navigate the intersections of history, autobiography, and personal memory, including work inspired by Marsden Hartley’s German Officer paintings. It is organized as a complement to Marsden Hartley’s Maine.
WILLIAMSTOWN
Clark Art Institute, now called "The Clark" • http://www.clarkart.edu/
Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and Design (through September 4, 2017)
WILMINGTON
Delaware Art Museum • http://www.delart.org/
Howard Pyle Murals (through December 31, 2020)
The complete set of nine mural panels painted by Howard Pyle (1853 – 1911) for the drawing room of his home at 907 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, Delaware, semi-permanently installed in one of the Vinton Illustration galleries on the second floor of the Museum.
WINTERTHUR (Switzerland)
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz" • www.bundesmuseen.ch/roemerholz/
Villa Flora Winterthur: Sammlung Hahnloser • https://www.villaflora.ch
YERRES, FRANCE--new museum:
La Propriété Caillebotte à Yerres • http://proprietecaillebotte.com/en/
Part of a nice long day SE of Paris: Yerres, Barbizon, Moret-sur-Loing, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau
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| Edgar Degas, The Conversation, 1895 |
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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Armchair, 1884 (V&A) |
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