SEATTLE

Collection board, Autumn–Winter 1965 haute couture collection, © Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, Paris.

Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style, Seattle Art Museum

October 11, 2016 - January 8, 2017

Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style opens October 11 and continues through January 8, 2017 as the Seattle Art Museum’s major fall exhibition. This major retrospective will showcase highlights from the legendary fashion designer’s 44-year career, with pieces drawn from the archives of the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent and other private collections. Featuring haute couture and ready-to-wear garments - some never shown publicly before - the exhibition reveals Saint Laurent’s artistic genius and his far-reaching influence on fashion.

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ATLANTA

Courtesy of the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center.

Contemporary Art Exhibition at ADAC

October 13 - 21, 2016

Demand for contemporary art is at an all-time high. From October 13-21, some of the finest works in the southeast will be available for purchase at the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center (ADAC). An incredible selection of new works by established artists and rising stars in the contemporary art world will be exhibited by top contemporary art galleries, including HATHAWAY|Contemporary Gallery and Alan Avery and Sandler Hudson, in addition to artists represented in the ADAC showrooms. BRADLEY, Duralee, Grizzel & Mann, Martin Nash, and Travis & Company are among the participating showrooms.

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CALIFORNIA

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Long-Haired Young Girl, November 9, 1945. Lithograph, 3rd state; 1 of 18 artist reserved proofs. plate: 15 x 12-1/2 in. (38.1 x 31.8 cm); sheet: 17-1/2 x 12-3/4 in. (44.5 x 32.4 cm). Norton Simon Art Foundation, Gift of Jennifer Jones Simon, M.2001.1.43.G. © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

States of Mind: Picasso Lithographs, 1945-1960, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA

October 14, 2016 - February 13, 2017

By the end of World War II, Pablo Picasso had reached what he called “the moment… when the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.” Picasso’s new interest in “movement”- the successive permutations of an artistic statement - was exemplified in his practice as a printmaker. Picasso would create a design, print it in a first state, rework it, and print it again. He sometimes repeated this process up to twenty times to chart the metamorphoses of a particular compositional idea. The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California holds over 700 Picasso prints, and is one of the deepest collections of its kind anywhere in the world. States of Mind traces the evolution of individual compositions from the 1940s and 1950s.

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OHIO

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Undergrowth with Two Figures, June 1890, oil on canvas, 19 ½ x 39 ¼ in. (49.5 x 99.7 cm), Cincinnati Art Museum; Bequest of Mary E. Johnston, 1967.1430.

Van Gogh: Into the Undergrowth, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

October 15, 2016 - January 8, 2017

This stunning exhibition is centered on Vincent van Gogh’s Undergrowth with Two Figures, and will bring an important group of artworks on loan from around the world together for the first time. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to compare Van Gogh’s poetic depictions of the forest floor (known as sous-bois) and evolving interpretation of the natural world to the works of the contemporaries who influenced and inspired him - Théodore Rousseau, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin. Van Gogh’s celebrated woodland landscapes were a reaction to the increasing industrialization and urbanization of society. Van Gogh’s Undergrowth with Two Figures is widely regarded as one of the great masterpieces of his late career. Into the Undergrowth puts this significant work in the context of the art of its time.

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TEXAS

Andy Warhol, In the Bottom of My Garden, ca. 1956. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.

Warhol by the Book, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

October 16, 2016 - January 29, 2017

The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas presents Warhol By the Book. It is the first museum exhibition in the United States to examine Andy Warhol’s career-long work in books. This segment of his vast portfolio of work is often overlooked. The exhibition spans five decades and over 250 objects, encompassing nearly all of Warhol’s book projects -- from his early days as a student in Pittsburgh and a commercial illustrator in New York, to his years as a Pop art pioneer and superstar in the spotlight. Original artist books, book jacket covers and ephemera, illustrations, screen prints, paintings, photographs, films, and several books authored and owned by Warhol will be on display.

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Claude Monet, La Grenouillére, 1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. En.wikipedia.org.

Monet: The Early Years, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX

October 16, 2016 – January 29, 2017

This groundbreaking exhibition is the first ever to be devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet. It will feature about 60 paintings beginning from his debut in Normandy in 1858, until he settled in Argenteuil on the River Seine near Paris in 1872. Throughout the 1860s, while he was still in his twenties, Monet absorbed the influence of his lessons at the Barbizon school, his mentor Boudin, and rose to the challenges posed by his friends and contemporaries, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley. From a young age, Monet positioned himself as an artist to be reckoned with. The exhibition is organized by the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth in collaboration with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and will open October 16.

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