Posts tagged: museums
Philip Guston’s “Red Cloth” (1976) currently hanging in the Brooklyn Museum’s contemporary art gallery.
Oliver Jeffers’s triptych “The Search” (2012) is one of the highlights of the Brooklyn Museum’s jumbled crowd-sourced show GO: a community-curated open studio project (through February 24).
Sculptures by Calixte Dakpogan from the Metropolitan Museum’s excellent exhibition Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents last year.
A very early (1934-36) and surprisingly figurative Mark Rothko, seen in the Musée Granet’s just-closed “Chefs-d’Oeuvre du Musée Frieder Burda.”
Robert Rauschenberg’s “Collection” (1954), spotted last year at SFMOMA.
Kohei Nawa’s “PixCell-Elk” (2009) was one of the highlights of Japan Society’s terrific group show Bye-Bye Kitty last year.
Another, much more familiar gem from the new Barnes Collection, the largest of Paul Cézanne’s series “The Card Players” (1890-1892).
This superb Sheila Hicks sculpture—made of nurses’ uniforms torn into strips and dyed—is titled “Wow Bush/Turmoil in Full Bloom” (1977) and part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s group show Secret Garden (through July).
A surprisingly oval and grotesque Vincent van Gogh painting encountered at the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, “Reclining Nude” (1887).
The new Ellsworth Kelly sculpture, “The Barnes Totem” (2012), outside the new Barnes Foundation in Center City Philadelphia.
