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At the bottom of this long page:
15-page (.pdf) lists of 2016-17 exhibitions in the US and EUROPE: An excellent resource for planning and travel!
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Upcoming events, near and far, offer art history experiences in the good company of companions with similar interests.
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Recommended temporary museum exhibitions around Texas are listed on this page
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| 2016 Luncheon Series at Westwood Country Club:
Great Collectors & Their Collections
Beautiful images, art history, food, and good company, in the Terrace Room (capacity: 80)
at Westwood Country Club in west Austin.
(Address: 3808 W. 35th Street, adjacent to Laguna Gloria at the western/dead 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 2016 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)
Please register for Thursday if you can!
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21 & 22 |
Gertrude Whitney |
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25 & 26
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Duncan Phillips
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10 & 11 |
Peggy Guggenheim
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21 & 22 |
Martha & Maxim Karolik (American Art @ MFA Boston)
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06 & 12
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Art Museums of Scotland
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14 & 15 |
Louisine Havemeyer
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Alice Walton: both dates open--more open spots Thursday
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J. Paul Getty: both dates open
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AHEAD—
2017 SERIES: More Great Collectors & Their Collections
Isabella Stewart Gardner (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) . . . January 5-6
Henry Clay Frick (Frick Museum, New York City) . . . February 23-24
Courtauld (The Courtauld Institute, London) . . . March 9-10
Albert Barnes (Barnes Collection, Philadelphia) . . . April 6-7
Norton Simon (Norton Simon Collection, Pasadena) . . . May 11-12
Wilhelm Hansen (Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark) . . . June 8-9
Maud & Chester Dale (National Gallery, Washington) . . . August 24-25
Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid) . . . October 5-6
Past series:
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:Great Collectors and Their Collections, part 2 [too many for one 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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ALLBRITTON ART INSTITUTE ANNUAL LECTURE (on the Baylor campus)
Dr Paul Hayes Tucker, Leading Authority on Claude Monet:
"The Sacred, Secular and Monet"
6:00pm on the Baylor campus
Mabee Theatre (overflow in nearby auditorium Fine Arts 149)
(easy access and parking near the venue: IH-35 north, exit 335B onto University Parks Drive, follow to campus entrance across from Mayborn Museum; Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center is just inside this campus entrance)
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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
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Texas Museum Exhibition Recommendations and Special Events
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| Charles Dulac, Landscape, 1893 |
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AUSTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.blantonmuseum.org
Goya: Mad Reason (June 19 - September 25, 2016)
150 prints from the Yale University Art Gallery and paintings from major Texas collections explore Goya's perceptions of his tumultuous times in the early 19th century.
AMOA-ARTHOUSE (Austin Museum of Art) ♦ http://amoa-arthouse.org
HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER at UT-AUSTIN ♦ http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
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.
Expert talks (partial listing; more on NCHM website):
October 11, 5-7pm: "Comfort and Glory, Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Winedale Quilt Collection"
Curator and Author Kate Adams offers program and four historic quilts, booksigning
RSVP: Ashley Carr, Special Events & Annual Giving Officer of the Briscoe Center: (512) 495-4609 or ashley.carr@austin.utexas.edu
October 30, 2:00pm: "The Red Scare" (1st program in 2016-17 Modern Times Lecture Series)
Speaker: Don Carleton, Executive Director of the UT-Austin Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
RSVP: Andrea Perry: 512-478-2335 or info@nchmuseum.org
UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org
"Studio in the Museum: An Interactive Recreation of Charles Umlauf's Studio (through October 16, 2016)
Public talk: UT Art History Prof. Tom Motley, "A Sculptor's Eye: The Drawings of Charles Umlauf"
Wednesday, September 28, 6PM (RSVP on website)
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ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS ♦ www.stia.org
DALLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
unintended italics cannot be corrected! ugh.
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ♦ www.kimbellart.org
Monet: The Early Years (October 16, 2016 - January 29, 2017)
An exhibition of approximately 60 paintings from the first phase of the artist's career-from his Normandy debut in 1858 until 1872, when he settled in Argenteuil, on the River Seine near Paris--built around the Kimbell's splendid large beachscape and including the great forest picnic project and early river scenes. SHOULD BE SPECTACULAR!
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
SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ♦ www.swbts.edu/
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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.mfah.org
Degas: A New Vision (Fall 2016) October 16, 2016 - January 8, 2017) -- ONLY US VENUE"the world first, Australian-led exhibition will bring together more than 200 works from 41 cities across 13 different countries.. . . will present the artist not only as a great painter, but also a master of drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and photography. The exhibition will be presented thematically, grouping together recurring subjects such as his famous ballet scenes, portraits, horse racing, Parisian nightlife, the nude, and woman at work and leisure."
Slideshow: http://au.blouinartinfo.com/photo-galleries/degas-a-new-vision-at-ngv-international?image=2
Julian Onderdonk and the Texan Landscape (October 2, 2016 - January 2, 2017)
A small "select" exhibition of about 25 works, coniciding with the release of the first catalogue raisonné of the artist (produced by long-time San Antonio dealer, Harry Halff)
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
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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.
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SAN ANGELO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ♦ www.samfa.org
The Art of Frank Reaugh, A Texas Master (September 15 - November 27, 2016)
A selection of pastel landscapes from Panhandle Plains Historical Museum by "the painter of the longhorns."
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McNAY ART MUSEUM ♦ www.mcnayart.org
French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950 (February 22 - May 21, 2017)
60 works from the Brooklyn Museum explore themes: landscape, still life, portraits/models, and the nude
SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.samuseum.org
WITTE MUSEUM ♦ www.wittemuseum.org
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.
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MARTIN MUSEUM OF ART • www.baylor.edu/martinmuseum/
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| Gustave Caillebotte, Young Man at a Window,1875 (46 x 32") |
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| Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1880; cast 1901, derived from the project now known as The Gates of Hell |
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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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2016-17 exhibitions of 19th-century art, US & Europe |
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BALTIMORE
Baltimore Museum of Art • https://artbma.org/
Kimono & Obi: Romantic Echoes from Japan's Golden Age (July 10, 2016 - January 15, 2017)
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 (opening November 11, 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."
BOSTON
Museum of Fine Arts Boston • www.mfa.org/
William Merritt Chase (October 9, 2016 - January 16, 2017)
80 works from around the world survey this major American Impressionist
BREMEN
Kunsthalle • www.kunsthalle-bremen.de
CHICAGO
Art Institute of Chicago • http://www.artic.edu/
Supernatural Shakespeare (April 16–October 10, 2016)
This focused installation in observance of Shakespeare 400 features three atmospheric engravings of fantastical Shakespearian scenes by artists emulating works by the renowned artist Henri Fuseli (c. 1800).
Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist (June 2017)
Enticing programs:
September 29 @ 6:00pm--Ellis Tinios (University of Leeds)
"Hokusai and His Publishers: Art and Commerce in 19th-Century Japan"
Driehaus Museum • www.driehausmuseum.org
CINCINNATI
Taft Museum of Art• http://www.taftmuseum.org/
COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado College IDEA Space (InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts) • http://sites.coloradocollege.edu/ideaspace/
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center • http://www.csfineartscenter.org/
DENVER
Denver Art Museum • www.denverartmuseum.org/
Women of Abstract Expressionism (through September 25, 2016)
FLINT, MICHIGAN
Flint Institute of Arts • www.flintarts.org
GAINESVILLE
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida • harn.ufl.eduMirror, Mirror . . . Portraits of Frida Kahlo (June 28 - November 27, 2016)
(Photographs)
HELSINKI
Ateneum • www.ateneum.fi
Amedeo Modigliani (October 28, 2016 - February 5, 2017)Retrospective exhibition of nearly 200 works
INDIANAPOLIS
Indianapolis Museum of Art • www.imamuseum.org
A Land Enchanted: The Golden Age of Indiana Art, 1877-1902 (through May 14, 2017)
Tiffany, Gorham, and the Height of American Silver, 1840-1930 (through October 23, 2016)
Indiana University Art Museum • www.artmuseum.iu.edu
LONDON
British Museum • http://www.britishmuseum.org
Leighton House Museum • https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/museums/leightonhousemuseum1.aspx
Alma-Tadema--Classical Charm (July 7 - October 29, 2017)
National Gallery • www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Tate Britain • www.tate.org.uk
LOS ANGELES
The Getty Center • www.getty.edu
NASHVILLE
Frist Center for the Visual Arts • fristcenter.org
Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery (July 29 - November 6, 2016)
NEW YORK CITYGuggenheim Museum • http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york
A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian House and Pavilion (Ongoing)
Agnes Martin, Untitled, 1977. Watercolor and graphite on paper, image: 9 x 9 inches;
Agnes Martin (October 2016 - January 2017)
This exhibition traces the career of Agnes Martin (1912–2004), one of the preeminent American painters of the twentieth century, from her early experiments of the 1950s through her mature oeuvre and final paintings, making it the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work since her death in 2004.
Neue Galerie • http://www.neuegalerie.org/home
Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I ("The Woman in Gold") is on permanent display
New-York Historical Society • www.nyhistory.org
Metropolitan Museum of Art • www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art • www.whitney.org/
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing (June 10 - September 25, 2016)Major exhibition of 100 works with focus on mature work and creative processOKLAHOMA CITY
Oklahoma City Museum of Art • www.okcmoa.com
Matisse in His Time: Masterworks of Modernism from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
OSLO
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design • http://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/
Japanomania in the North: The Influence of Japan on Nordic Art and Design 1875-1918
(June 17 - Oct 16, 2016)
First-ever exhibition showing the wide-ranging influence of Japanese art on Nordic art and design around 1900. Works by Gerhard Munthe, Thorvald Bindesböll, Bruno Liljefors and Helene Schjerfbeck are presented along with works by pioneers such as Monet, Gauguin and van Gogh. The exhibition consists of two complementary parts, showing concurrently at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design and the National Gallery.
Beautiful, comprehensive catalog (Yale University Press) will be available June 2016
EXHIBITION WILL APPEAR ALSO:
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (February 17 - May 15, 2016)
National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (January 19 - April 23, 2017)
PALO ALTO
Stanford University: Cantor Arts Center • museum.stanford.edu
PARIS
Musée d'Orsay • www.musee-orsay.fr/
PHILADELPHIA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art • https://www.pafa.org
World War I and American Art (November 11, 2016 - April 09, 2017)
Thomas Eakins: Photographer (October 19, 2016 - January 29, 2017)
Philadelphia Museum of Art • www.philamuseum.org
PORTLAND (Maine)
Portland Art Museum • www.portlandmuseum.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
Asian Art Museum • http://www.asianart.org
SEATTLE
Frye Art Museum • fryemuseum.org/
VENICE
Peggy Guggenheim Collection • http://www.guggenheim.org/venice
WASHINGTON, DC
Kreeger Museum • https://www.kreegermuseum.org/
Phillips Collection • www.phillipscollection.org
People on the Move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series (October 8, 2016 - January 8, 2017)
Lawrence's key work, 60 panels in a bold, flat style, address the northern migration of African Americans after Emancipation
National Gallery of Art • www.nga.gov
Hubert Robert, 1733-1808 (June 26 - October 2, 2016)
100 works in the first moographic exhibition o Robert's work chart his development in Rome, accomplishments after his return to Paris, and his lasting contribution to French visual culture, including his promotion of the architectural capriccio.
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing (November 20, 2016 - March 5, 2017)
National Museum of Women in the Arts • www.nmwa.org/
Smithsonian American Art Museum • http://americanart.si.edu/
Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers' Greek Slave (through February 19, 2017)
"This one-gallery exhibition reveals the inner workings of the studio of Hiram Powers (1805–1873), who was among the most innovative sculptors of the nineteenth century, eagerly adapting long-standing sculpture traditions to new technologies of his age.The display draws from an extensive collection acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum directly from Powers’ studio in Florence, Italy, in 1968."
Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern (November 11, 2016 - March 19, 2017)
Gene Davis: Hot Beat (November 17, 2016 - April 2, 2017)
Prominent painter in so-called "Color Field" movement of the mid-20th century
WATERVILLE, MAINE
Colby College Museum of Art • www.colby.edu/museum/
WILLIAMSTOWN
Clark Art Institute, now called "The Clark" • http://www.clarkart.edu/
WILMINGTON • http://www.delart.org/
WINTERTHUR (Switzerland)
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz" • www.bundesmuseen.ch/roemerholz/
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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| Eric O. W. Ehrström: Cluster of Rowanberries with Snow, 1908 |
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| samu Noguchi, Grey Sun, 1967, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist |
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