JUNE 7-13

NEW YORK

The Decoration & Design Building.

Decoration & Design Building’s Spring Market, New York, NY
June 8, 2016
New York’s Decoration & Design Building, which is home to over 130 showrooms and represents over 3,000 manufacturers, will host its annual Spring Market on Wednesday, June 8. In addition to an array of open house events in some of the country’s finest showrooms, including John Rosselli, Michael Taylor, and Lee Jofa, the one-day event will include a jam-packed schedule of must-see keynote lectures. Participating designers include Jamie Drake, Anthony Baratta, and Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz. Designer Steven Favreau will also moderate a discussion entitled, “From Urban to Suburban: Three Designers Talk About Tackling the Tri-State Area,” in the Robert Allen showroom. He will be joined by Keith Baltimore, Kathleen Walsh, and Vanessa Deleon. The Decoration & Design Building, which is located on the Upper East Side, is open exclusively to design industry professionals. Click here to continue reading.

Stuart Davis (1892–1964), Report from Rockport, 1940. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection, bequest of Edith Abrahamson Lowenthal, 1991. © Estate of Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
June 10–September 25, 2016
This highly anticipated exhibition will focus on Stuart Davis’ later works. A pioneer of American modernism, Davis is best known for his bold, colorful canvases. Inspired by the country’s rapidly changing physical, social, and cultural landscapes as well as jazz music, Davis often revisited motifs from earlier compositions in works created after 1939. In Full Swing will examine this method, which is a distinct aspect of Davis’ mature work. Approximately 100 works will be on view. The exhibition will present Davis’ later works alongside the earlier pieces that inspired them. Click here to continue reading.

Nan Goldin (American, born 1953), Rise and Monty Kissing, New York City. 1980. Silver dye bleach print, printed 2008, 15 1/2 x 23 ⅛ inches (39.4 x 58.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2016 Nan Goldin.

Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
June 11, 2016-February 12, 2017
The Boston-bred photographer Nan Goldin is known for her deeply personal images of herself, her family, her friends, and her lovers. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency will present nearly 700 photographs that follow Goldin and her coterie through the 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. The poignant images, which capture love, loss, and everything in between, will be complemented by a curated soundtrack that features artists as wide ranging as Maria Callas and The Velvet Underground. In addition to the works that make up Goldin’ The Ballad of Sexual Dependency series, the exhibition will include photographs from MoMA’s collection and archival material provided by the artist. Click here to continue reading.

CALIFORNIA

Los Angeles Design Festival, Various Locations, Los Angeles, CA
June 9-26, 2016
The Los Angeles Design Festival is a city-wide celebration of L.A.’s status as a global design capital. Among the dizzying array of events is a guided tour of Rudolph Schindler’s Rodriguez House; the opening of the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. exhibition, which focuses exclusively on artists from the L.A. region; and Dwell on Design—a three-day design conference and exhibition. The Los Angeles Design Festival’s ICON award will honor Deborah Weintraub, the city’s senior deputy for the Bureau of Engineering and L.A.’s highest ranking architect. Click here to continue reading.  

MASSACHUSETTS

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593–1678), Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, 1636–38. Oil on canvas, 71 1/4 x 113 3/8 in.

Splendor, Myth and Vision: Nudes From the Prado, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
June 11-October 10, 2016
Between June and October, visitors to the Clark Art Institute will get a rare chance to see masterpieces from Madrid’s Prado Museum in the United States. Splendor, Myth and Vision  will present twenty-eight Old Master paintings that celebrate the role of the nude in Western painting—twenty-four of which have never been exhibited in America. The stunning exhibition will include works by a panoply of masters, including Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, Diego Velázquez, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Guercino, and Nicolas Poussin. The Clark is the only venue to host Splendor, Myth and Vision. Click here to continue reading.  

OHIO

Robert Delaunay, Portuguese Woman, 1916. Oil on canvas., 53 ½ x 61 3/8 in. (135.9 x 155.9 cm). Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Gift of Howard D. and Babette L. Sirak, the Donors to the Campaign for Enduring Excellence, and the Derby Fund.

Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
June 10-September 11, 2016
The Columbus Museum of Art has partnered with the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia to present a sweeping exhibition centered on Pablo Picasso. Inspired by the Columbus Museum’s Still Life with Compote and Glass, the exhibition explores how Picasso’s work was affected by World War I. Picasso features approximately fifty works drawn from an array of international museums and private collections as well as important pieces by Picasso’s contemporaries, including Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani. The exhibition will be complemented by a smaller show that will feature ceramics created by Picasso in the Madoura pottery studio in the south of France. Click here to continue reading.

WASHINGTON

Four Nude Women and a Sculpted Head, 1934, Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881-1973, etching and burin engraving, 13 3/8 × 17 1/2 in. Collection of ICO, Madrid. © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Graphic Masters: Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Picasso, R. Crumb, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
June 9-August 28, 2016
Graphic Masters explores the vastly different yet unanimously influential works of six groundbreaking artists: Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, William Hogarth, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, and R. Crumb. The exhibition, which includes woodblock prints, engravings, etchings, aquatints, and drawings, is the Seattle Art Museum’s first major show dedicated to the graphic arts. With over 400 works on view, the exhibition will chart the evolution of drawing and printmaking, beginning with the Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer and ending with the contemporary comic icon R. Crumb. Together, the works on view will illustrate printmaking’s role as a storytelling device throughout the centuries, while drawing connections between historical and contemporary works. Click here to continue reading.

GEORGIA

Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975), West Virginia Living Room, 1935, gelatin silver print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from the Atlanta Foundation, 75.45. © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Walker Evans: Depth of Field, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
June 11-September 11, 2016
One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Walker Evans is widely considered the founder of documentary-style photography in America. His clear, elegant, and incredibly evocative images have influenced generation after generation of artists. Depth of Field, which features more than 120 black-and-white and color prints,will follow the full arc of Evans’ career from the 1920s through the 1970s. Depth of Field is the most comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work ever mounted in the southeastern United States. The exhibition includes many of Walker’s most iconic works, including the photographs he took of the American south during the Great Depression. Click here to continue reading.

COLORADO

Helen Frankenthaler in front of Mountains and Sea (1952) in her West End Avenue apartment, New York, 1956. Photographer unknown. ©2016 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.

Women of Abstract Expressionism, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
June 12-September 25, 2016
This exhibition will spotlight the often overlooked female component of Abstract Expressionism, which includes such luminaries as Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Perle Fine, and Joan Mitchell. The show is the first exhibition to unite the works of these groundbreaking artists, who were often overpowered by their male counterparts. Women of Abstract Expressionism feature more than fifty paintings by artists working on the East and West coasts during the mid-twentieth century. Organized by the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition will travel to to the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, in October 2016 and California’s Palm Springs Art Museum in February 2017. Click here to continue reading.