November 17-20, 2015

NEW YORK

A vintage Piero Fornasetti dish with hand and rings. Offered by Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge.

New York Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
November 20-24, 2015
The New York Art, Antique & Jewelry Show will make its annual return to the Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Avenue) November 20-24, 2015. Presented by the Palm Beach Show Group, this important event will feature more than 80 international exhibitors, an engaging lecture series and exclusive interior designer led tours. As one of New York City’s longest running events, the show has become a hallmark in the city’s social season and has set a benchmark of excellence in the art, antique and jewelry industry. The show is known for bringing thousands of works of art and antiquities from domestic and international galleries, in addition to fabulous antique and estate jewels from many of the world’s elite jewelers. Click here to continue reading.

Alex Kanevsky (b. 1963) J.F.H. and Dark Garden, 2015. Oil on panel, 20 x 40 inches (two panels). Courtesy of Hollis Taggart Galleries.

In Focus: Alex Kanevsky, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY
On view through December 12, 2015
Hollis Taggart Galleries proudly announces the East Coast representation of Alex Kanevsky. Ten richly-layered, provocative paintings will be on view through December 12, 2015. Virtuoso painter Alex Kanevsky captures movement and time’s constant flow in canvases that resist adherence to a single moment, or even a single reading. Like the unreliable nature of memory and the imprecise atmosphere of poetry, Kanevsky’s multilayered works provide more questions than answers. Click here to continue reading.

Forrest Myers, Fold chairs, c. 1969. Anodized aluminum, 36H x 18W x 19D inches (seat H 18H), 91.4H x 45.7W x 48.3D cm (seat H 48.3H). Courtesy of Magen H Gallery, photography by Emilie Lucie.

 Art et Industrie, Magen H Gallery, New York, NY
On view through December 5, 2015
Magen H Gallery is pleased to present the exclusive retrospective and premiere of the publication, Art et Industrie—a New York Movement. For over two decades, Art et Industrie was recognized as an epicenter for an emerging radical artistic movement that blurred the lines between fine and applied art. Art et Industrie was the first to exhibit Studio Alchemia, Shiro Takahama, and Ron Arad, but ultimately found its lifeblood in a core group of artists with a uniquely American voice. The retrospective will feature a collection of over 60 works by artists such as Forrest Myers, Terence Main, Jim Cole, Howard Meister, Carmen Spera, James Hong, James Evanson, Richard Snyder, Rafael Barrios, Michele Oka Doner, Laura Main, Paul Ludick, Dan Friedman, Alex Locadia, among others. Click here to continue reading.

Brazil Modern at R&Company. Image courtesy of Joe Kramm/R&Company.

Brazil Modern, R & Company, New York, NY
On view through January 7, 2016
On view through January 7, 2016, Brazil Modern, an exhibition highlighting important Brazilian furniture designs, textiles and ephemera from the 20th century. The exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday, November 10th, with a reception from 6-8 pm, and closes on January 7th, 2016. Brazil Modern explores the rich and diverse designs that came out of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo between the late 1940s and early 1970s. Designers highlighted will include Lina Bo Bardi, Carlo Hauner, Martin Eisler, Roberto Burle Marx, Oscar Niemeyer, Sergio Rodrigues, Joaquim Tenreiro, Jorge Zalsupin and Jose Zanine. Archival material on view will include original drawings by Joaquim Tenreiro and Sergio Rodrigues. Click here to continue reading.

Holiday House NYC, 2 East 63rd Street New York, NY
On view through December 2, 2015
Holiday House Design Show was founded seven years ago by Iris Dankner to raise breast cancer awareness in the design industry. Iris is a eighteen year breast cancer survivor, and has made it her mission to raise funds for breast cancer research and women who need help fighting this disease. In 2008, combining her two passions, namely her love of design and her efforts to help women in need, Iris created Holiday House, the first designer showhouse held in New York City to benefit a breast cancer organization. Click here to continue reading.

MASSACHUSETTS

Leap Before You Look at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Liza Voll Photography.

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
On view through January 24, 2016
A small, experimental liberal arts college founded in 1933, Black Mountain College (BMC) has exerted enormous influence on the postwar cultural life of the United States. Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive education movement, it placed the arts at the center of liberal arts education and believed that in doing so it could better educate citizens for participation in a democratic society. It was a dynamic crossroads for refugees from Europe and an emerging generation of American artists. Profoundly interdisciplinary, it offered equal attention to painting, weaving, sculpture, pottery, poetry, music, and dance. Click here to continue reading.

View of the M-Geough showroom at Boston Design Center. Courtesy of M-Geough Co. (MA).

Boston Home Decor Show, The Cyclorama, The Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
November 19-22, 2015
Fusco & Four will launch the inaugural Boston Home Decor Show Nov. 19-22, 2015, opening with a Gala Preview to benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS.   A unique new show, the Boston Home Decor Show is designed to capture the evolution of the collecting and design market, and include a broad range of antique, modern and contemporary home furnishings, fine art, decorative arts and home décor. “The way that people collect and how they furnish their homes has dramatically changed,” notes co-producer Tony Fusco. “The trend to downsize from larger homes to high-rise luxury condominiums, the emergence of a younger collector interested in owning iconic works of their own generation, a more racially and ethnically diverse population, and less stylistically restrictive interior design that embraces both old and new -- all of this called for a new kind of show.” The Boston Home Décor Show will launch at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, a venue familiar to those who frequent Fusco & Four’s other shows. Click here to continue reading.

MISSOURI

Bruce Davidson, American (b. 1933). Time of Change (National Guardsmen protecting the Freedom Riders during their ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi), 1961. Gelatin silver print (printed later), 8 7/8 × 12 15/16 inches. Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, 2014.18.5.

Through the Lens: Visions of African American Experience, 1950-1970, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
November 18, 2015-April 3, 2016
This exhibition features over sixty works by seven photographers active during the civil rights era (1950-1970). Organized to underscore different artistic intentions and photographic approaches, Through the Lens highlights various aspects of African American experience during this time of tremendous social and political change. Photographers Danny Lyon, Bruce Davidson, and Charles Moore bore witness to the activities and struggles of the civil rights movements as a means to effect social change. W. Eugene Smith, Gordon Parks and James Karales produced extended photo-essays that brought stories about the lives of ordinary African Americans to the national public. Click here to continue reading.

FLORIDA

An Eye for Opulence: Charleston through the Lens of the Rivers Collection, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
November 20, 2015-January 10, 2016
In the early capitol of the South, Charleston’s citizens enjoyed unprecedented economic prosperity. This wealth, generated in part as a result of enslaved labor, fueled a robust urban community, and the finest goods were sought to define social status among the city’s white population. Charleston’s insatiable appetite for luxury items and the market’s ability to absorb both imports and locally made goods attracted skilled craftsmen from other American cities and Europe. “An Eye for Opulence” tells the story of Charleston’s golden era—from the colonial to antebellum city—through the lens of the Rivers Collection and enhanced by decorative and fine arts from Charleston’s public institutions. Click here to continue reading.

TEXAS

Gustave Caillebotte, "Paris Street, Rainy Day," 1877. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Artist Jackson Pollock dribbling sand on painting while working in his studio. Photo by Martha Holmes/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images.

Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
On view through February 14, 2016
The first major U.S. retrospective of the artist's work in 20 years, this exhibition features fifty of Caillebotte's most important paintings of Paris and its environs. Although Caillebotte's paintings were admired by famous impressionists such as Degas and Renoir, his work gained little acclaim or notoriety during his lifetime. The artist often drew inspiration from his immediate surroundings, depicting close friends or members of his family in domestic scenes infused with visual drama. Living in Paris during a time of rapid modernization, Caillebotte painted everyday scenes that captured the dramatic changes happening in the city. For Caillebotte, retreating from urban life also meant relaxing his painting style. His country scenes are characterized by loose brushstrokes and playful subject matter compared to his images of Paris. Click here to continue reading.

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
November 20, 2015-March 20, 2016
Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots is only the third major U.S. museum exhibition to focus solely on the artist hailed as “the greatest painter this country has ever produced.” On November 20, the Dallas Museum of Art will present what experts have deemed a “once in a lifetime” exhibition, organized by the DMA’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Gavin Delahunty: the largest survey of Jackson Pollock’s black paintings ever assembled. This exceptional presentation, which critics hailed as “sensational," "exhilarating," "genius,"  “revelatory,” and “revolutionary” on its UK premier at Tate Liverpool, will receive its sole US presentation in Dallas and include many works that have not been exhibited for more than 50 years. Click here to continue reading

TORONTO

 J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
On view through January 31, 2016
One of the most radical and influential artists of the 19th century, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), was a giant of British art who produced many of his most important and famous pictures after the age of sixty, in the last fifteen years of his life. Featuring more than 50 paintings and works on paper on loan from Tate Britain, J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free is the first major exhibition to focus on the final and most experimental phase of the artist’s career. Click here to continue reading.