TABS ABOVE will take you to 4 other pages
|
 |
| Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at a Window, c. 1820 |
|
| 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.
- EXPLORE
Recommended temporary museum exhibitions around Texas are listed on this page
- CONTACT
Add your name to the email list or begin a registration for an event at Contact Art inSight
- PARTICIPATE
Day Trips, Study Tours, and future destinations are described on the Study Tours page
- REVIEW
For a history of tours and other notes, see About Art inSight.
|
|
|
(Maybe) About to be History, but won't be deleted for awhile . . .
COVID-19's IMPACT ON ART inSIGHT:
I am happy that it's been possible to resume gatherings at the Chateau Bellevue, where we can gather and socialize, enjoy a substantial lunch, and explore the day's program in one another's company. The Chateau has set a minimum of 40 (with social distancing and all possible precautions involved in seating and table service); the luncheons will happen on Fridays when the number of registrants meets the Chateau's minimum. Meanwhile, I'm grateful for Zoom! and will continue Zooming on Thursdays for all who prefer Zoom for reasons of convenience, safety, or distance!
For information about the 2022 series, scroll down.
SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR NOW:
• Explore individual artists, movements, etc., via the Met's
Example: Click on their American Art 19th century and see a long list of sub-topics that make it easy to build understanding in manageable chunks
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2022 Art inSight Program Series--THEME & SCHEDULE:
ARTISTS (All Women) in Their BIRTHDAY MONTHS
Zoom meetings -- Thursdays [pre-Zoom and post-Zoom notes and recording]
$20 per person
Luncheon meetings -- Fridays [coffee, program, seated GF luncheon @ historic Chateau Bellevue]
$45 per person
Preregistration is expected--send email to get your name on the attendance list
Deadline: Monday in the week of your chosen program
Registration Options (please be sure to include your chosen date in email or on your check):
• Check—payable to Art inSight, mail to: PO Box 5730, Austin TX 78763-5730
• VENMO—@karenpope95
• CREDIT CARD—via PayPal link (below)
TOPICS and DATES -- One Important Woman at a Time
changes from original schedule
Jan 13-14 Barbara Hepworth
Feb 24-25 Gabriele Münter
Mar 17-18 Anna Hyatt Huntington
Apr 7-8 Bridget Riley
May 12-13 Tamara de Lempicka
June 16-17 Magdalena Abakanowicz
July 21-29 Käthe Kollwitz
Aug 19 & 23 Laura Knight
Sept 22-23 Louise Nevelson
Oct 27-28 Lee Krasner
Nov 3-4 Sonia Delaunay
Dec 1-2 Helen Frankenthaler
|
 |
| Othmar Schimtowitz, Angels, Leopold Church "Am Steinhof," c.1900, Vienna |
|
|
2021 Artists in Their Birthday Months
2020 Masterpieces: Method, Meaning, Context
2019 Great Art Museums, part 2
2018 Great Art Museums, part 1
2017 Great Collectors and Their Collections, part 2
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 Future Series Topics:
Key Works of World Architecture, Stonehenge to Safdie
Great Moments in Art History, Antiquity to Modern
Perspectives on Movies about Great Artists
A Year with Prints: Basics of the major printmaking processes, handling examples, studio and collection visits
Art History Survey: Prehistory through the Present
Great Works in each medium, one medium at a time, emphasis on process and effect (marble, etching, tempera, etc.)
|
| Special Events of Note:
(Austin landmark, Abner Cook 1855)
FOR EVEN DATES & DETAILS, click on the link and/or visit the Museum's website for times, registration, etc.
"Reckoning with the Past: The Reinterpretation of the NCHM Slave Quarters"
Austin's only extant publicly accessible slave quarters has the potential to add considerably to the visible history of early Austin and to tell the difficult stories of enslavement and race in the nineteenth century. Public events are underway to involve the community; sponsorships are welcome to support programming, publications, and city-wide collaborations.
|
PRess: Daily Texan and Austin American-Statesman |
Texas Museum Exhibition Recommendations and Special Events
NOTE: Some museums, closed because of the COVID-19 virus, may have negotiated extensions of their temporary exhibitions. I'm not aware of all such plans, so have left exhibitions posted below, even though the exhibitions' official dates have "expired." Check websites for updates!
|
|
|
| ABILENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GRACE MUSEUM ♦ www.thegracemuseum.orgM
AUSTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMOA-ARTHOUSE (Austin Museum of Art) ♦ http://amoa-arthouse.org
BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART ♦ www.blantonmuseum.org
Weekly livestreamed “Curated Conversations” at 5 p.m. Tuesdays. These Zoom sessions — for more info, go to bit.ly/35RAaG4 — feature cultivated Blanton curators and other staff members who give short thematic presentations followed by questions from viewers in real time.
Watch past episodes of “Curated Conversations” on YouTube at bit. ly/3dDlgWp. Among the topics: a woman’s place in the artistic canon, mail art in Latin America and behind the scenes at Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin.”
BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY • www.cah.utexas.edu
From Commemoration to Education: Pompeo Coppini's Statue of Jefferson Davis
Commissioned in 1919 by university regent Major George W. Littlefield the statue was envisioned as part of a much larger allegorical memorial, the Littlefield Fountain, intended to honor Texans who died in the Civil War and World War I while also addressing the reconciliation of the northern and southern states between those wars. However, the memorial and its campus setting and cultural context changed significantly over the course of its development. No longer an object of commemoration, the statue was moved in 2015 and now forms part of a new exhibition that explores the statue's history, as well as its significance as both a work of art and evidence of the past.
HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER at UT-AUSTIN • http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM ♦ www.nchmuseum.org
Mark Smith's "HOPE" Series (through December 18, 2022)
44 collages inspired by Barack Obama's campaign theme; the original works are now at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.
Related events:
June 2
Celebrate the opening of this exciting exhibit.
July 10
Join the artist for a collage workshop for all ages on the NCHM porch. Free and kid friendly!
September 22-23
See The Hope Suite, bigger than ever, projected onto the side of the LBJ Library.
October 6
Learn about The Hope Suite from the artist at the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
UMLAUF (SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM) ♦ www.umlaufsculpture.org
CORPUS CHRISTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS ♦ www.stia.org
DALLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
FORT WORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ♦ www.cartermuseum.org
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Gkass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano (June 26 - Sept 11, 2022)140 works exploring and celebrating the great era of Murano glass (c. 1860-1910) and the American artists who found inspiration in the arts and exotic cityscape of Venice; artists include Whistler, Chase, Duveneck, Homer, Moran, Parrish, Prendergast . . .
FOCUS OF A DAYTRIP--see Art inSight STUDY TOURS PAGE
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM ♦ www.kimbellart.org
Slay: Artemisia Gentileschi and Kehinde Wiley (July 19, - October 9, 2022)
Two paintings depicting different versions of the Old Testament story of Judith and Holofernes—one by Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi and the other by American contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley—will be on view at the Kimbell for a limited time. Strikingly different renditions of the same subject realized exactly 400 years apart, the paintings will allow visitors to reflect on contemporary issues through a historical lens.
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH ♦ www.themodern.orgWomen Painting Women (through September 25, 2022)A thematic exhibition featuring 46 female artists, includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present; international in scope
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME ♦ www.cowgirl.net
SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM Celebrating Remington & Russell ♦ www.sidrichardsonmuseum.org
HOUSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS ♦ http://asiasociety.org/texas
Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure (November 13, 2022-February 12, 2023)
The exhibition gathers an ensemble of masterpieces focusing on the artist’s major achievements of the postwar years (1945–66). Combining all media—sculpture, painting, and drawing—the show of 60 works draws upon the deep resources of the artist’s personal collection and examines a central, animating aspect of his oeuvre: his extraordinary, singular concern for the human figure. Co-organized by the Fondation Giacometti in Paris and the Cleveland Museum of Art, the exhibition will be presented at the Seattle Art Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
THE PEARL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS • www.pearlmfa.org
RIENZI A Home for European Decorative Arts ♦ www.mfah.org/rienzi
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Historic houses, natural history, and occasional art exhibitions
WACO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MARTIN MUSEUM OF ART • www.baylor.edu/martinmuseum/
|
 |
| James Surls, Seven and Seven Flower, 1998 |
|
|
 |
| Diego Rivera, Sleep, 1932 Ilithograph) |
|
|
Attractive Special Exhibitions beyond Texas
Not meant to be a thorough list, just items of interest ...
NB: Italics below are a glitch, not meaningful ...
|
|
|
BIG ANNIVERSARIES/EVENTS in ART HISTORY in 2022:
• Bayeux Tapestry @ British Museum
• Donatello -- special exhibitions in Florence (listed below)
• Mondrian 150
• Cézanne
|
The Covid-19 Pandemic has upended special exhibition calendar postings and updates have not been methodically maintained. Exhibitions with dates in 2022-2023 represent current information.
|
|
|
|
AMSTERDAMRijksmuseum • https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en
Van Gogh Museum • https://vangoghmuseum.nl/en
ATLANTAHigh Museum • https://high.org/Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the Collection (new installation)
Shaheen Collection of French Works (new installation)
A family collection focused on French art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
BALTIMORE
Baltimore Museum of Art • https://artbma.org/
BARCELONA
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya • www.mnac.cat/
BASEL
Kunstmuseum Basel • www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
Fondation Beyeler • 150 Years of Mondrian (5 June - 9 October 2022) see The Hague
BENTONVILLE
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art • crystalbridges.org
including Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House, 1957
BERKELEY
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • https://bampfa.org/
BERLINAlte Galerie •
Gemäldegalerie •
Donatello: The Renaissance (2 September 2022 - 8 January 2023)
Martin Gropius Bau • www.gropiusbau.de
BERN Kunstmuseum • www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
BILBAO • www.guggenheim-bilbao.esGuggenheim Museum Bilbao
BLOOMINGTON Eskenazi Museum of Art (Indiana University) • https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/
BONN
Bundestkunsthalle • www.bundeskunsthalle.de
BOSTON
Museum of Fine Arts Boston • www.mfa.org/
BREMEN
Kunsthalle • www.kunsthalle-bremen.de
BROOKLYN Brooklyn Museum of Art • brooklynmuseum.org
BURLINGTON VT
Shelburne Museum • shelburnemuseum.org
CAMBRIDGE
Fitzwilliam Museum • http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/
CHARLESTONBrookgreen Gardens • https://www.brookgreen.org/
CHICAGO
Art Institute of Chicago • http://www.artic.edu
Cézanne (15 May - 5 September 2022)
"The greatest Paul Cézanne exhibition for a generation . . . will span the full career of the artist . . .it will comprise 90 oil paintings, 40 works on paper and two sketchbooks . . . reframe Cézanne, a giant of art history, for our own time." (Art Newspaper)
Twisted: Patrick Dougherty Entwined at the Taft (ongoing, front lawn)
a cluster of Dougherty's signature willow-sapling forms, involving 6 tons of material and the help of 150 volunteers
COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College • http://www.csfineartscenter.org/
COLUMBUS OH
Columbus Museum of Art • http://www.columbusmuseum.org/
DUSSELDORF150 Years of Mondrian (29 Octobeer 2022 - 10 February 2023) see The Hague
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse • www.rct.uk/whatson/
ELK HORN, IOWAMuseum of Danish America • https://www.danishmuseum.org
FLINT, MICHIGAN
Flint Institute of Arts • www.flintarts.org
FLORENCE
Palazzo StrozziDonatello: The Renaissance (19 March - 31 July 2022)Sweeping survey of the artist's work
Museu del Bargello • https://www.florence-museum.com/bargello-museum
Uffizi • https://www.uffizi-gallery
GAINESVILLE
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida • harn.ufl.edu
GHENTMuseum of Fine Arts (MSK) • https://www.mskgent.be/en
HAGUE
Kunstmuseum Den Haag [formerly Gemeentemuseum] • www.kunstmuseum.nl150 Years of Mondrian (2 April - 25 September 2022)
In observance of the artist's birth, 1872); exhibition will proceed to Basel and Düsseldorf
Mauritshuis • https://www.mauritshuis.nl/
HELSINKI
Ateneum • www.ateneum.fi
Bayeux Tapestry, for the first time in its 950-year history, loan and display projected to occur in 2022
Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace •
Tate Modern • http://www.tate.org
Cézanne (6 October 2022 - 12 March 2023) following Chicago (see description above)
LOS ANGELES
The Getty Center • www.getty.edu
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
100 Great British Drawings (through September 5, 2022)
overview: https://www.huntington.org/100-great-british-drawings
MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee Art Museum • mam.org
Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance (February 11 through May 15, 2022)
New-York Historical Society • www.nyhistory.org
Gallery of Tiffany Lamps [100 lamps from the museum's spectacular collection]
Musée Nissim da Camondo •
Horace Pippin: From War to Peace (ongoing)
Rodin Museum • rodinmuseum.orgRethinking the Modern Monument (ongoing)
Applauded and despised in equal measure, Rodin’s public sculptures were viewed as a shocking departure from the methods used for centuries to pay homage to famous figures, and he changed the form forever. See many of the artist’s best-known sculptures alongside works by artists who came after, inspired by the radical intimacy of his public monuments.
PORTLAND (Maine)
Portland Museum of Art • www.portlandmuseum.orgTours 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
PORTLAND (Oregon)
Portland Art Museum • https://portlandartmuseum.org/
ROME
Scuderie del Quirinale • https://www.scuderiequirinale.it/
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
Asian Art Museum • http://www.asianart.org
De Young/Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco • http://deyoung.famsf.org
SAN JOSE
VIENNA
WASHINGTON, DC
Hillwood Museum [home of Marjorie Merriweather Post]
Renwick Gallery
WOOSTER
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
