This Week's Major Events: Zaha Hadid Exhibition, Sir Elton John's Photography Collection, Jean Dubuffet Retrospective & More
NEW YORK
- Jean Dubuffet, L’Arnaque (The Swindle), June 2, 1962, Gouache. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of the Stephen Hahn Family Collection (1995). © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum.
- Jean Dubuffet, Jardin medieval (Medieval Garden), July 1955, Butterfly wings and watercolor. Glimcher Family Collection. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum.
Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962
Through January 2, 2017
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY
For more information, call 212.685.0008 or visit www.themorgan.org
This is the first museum retrospective of Jean Dubuffet’s works on paper. One hundred drawings, including rarely seen examples borrowed from public and private collections in France and the U.S., will be on view at The Morgan Library and Museum. Though he favored depicting mundane activities of everyday life, he also explored traditional genres, like the female nude and landscape, to better subvert expectations with his outrageous artistic expressions. His unorthodox use of materials and techniques instilled a sense of adventure in his drawings that continues to keep his art relevant. Installed in chronological order, the exhibition is divided into seven sections: Early Drawings, Portraits, Sahara, Corps de Dames and Radiant Lands, Butterfly Collages and Assemblages of Imprints, Textures and Beards, and Paris Circus. This exhibition closes on January 2, so it’s the last chance to see it in New York before it travels to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, beginning January 29, 2017.
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- Courtesy of Fenimore Art Museum.
Traditions of Celebration and Ritual: Thaw Collection of American Indian Art
Through December 31, 2016
Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY
For more information, call 607.547.1400 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org
A new comprehensive catalog of the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art has been released that greatly expands upon the first edition, originally published in 2000. The 520-page edition features stunning photographs of the collection in its entirety, totaling more than 830 works. The Thaw Collection of American Indian Art housed at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of Native American art in the world. Some of the art objects from this collection are currently on view at Fenimore as part of the exhibition Tradition of Celebrations and Ritual, which runs through the end of the year. An exhibition of the Thaw Collection's most prized works will be opening this spring at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 8, 2017.
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LONDON
- Zaha Hadid, Installation view, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (8 December 2016 – 12 February 2017) © Zaha Hadid Foundation. Image © 2016 Luke Hayes.
Zaha Hadid: Paintings and Drawings
Through February 12, 2017
Serpentine Sackler Gallery
West Carriage Drive, Kensington Gardens, London W2 2AR, UK
For more information call +44 (0)20 7402 6075 or visit www.serpentinegalleries.org
An exhibition of early paintings and drawings by Zaha Hadid is on view at Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, a building which the visionary architect designed in 2013. Zaha Hadid passed away unexpectedly in March of this year, at the age of sixty-five. This exhibition includes her calligraphic drawings, rarely seen private notebooks with sketches, and paintings and drawings from the early 1970s to early 1990s. Calligraphic drawings were her main method for visualizing her architectural ideas, and paintings were design tools. Some of the works exhibited include a student work from the late 1970s that features a design for a hotel on a bridge across the river Thames, and a futuristic painting of Hong Kong that was part of a proposal for the Peak Leisure Club. The exhibition, which is free admission, will be on view through February 12, 2017. On January 21 and January 28, Assistant Curator Agnes Gryczkowska and Curator Amira Gad, respectively, will lead tours of the exhibition at 3:00 pm.
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The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection
Through May 7, 2017
Tate Modern
Bankside, London SE1 9TG, UK
For more information, call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 or visit www.tate.org.uk/
This major exhibition is drawn from one of the world’s greatest private collections of photography, the Sir Elton John Collection. This selection features classic modernist images from the 1920s to 1950s, with more than 60 artists represented by almost 200 works. Berenice Abbott, André Kertész, Man Ray, Alexandr Rodchenko and Edward Steichen are among the seminal artists included in this exhibition. The photographs installed describe the crucial moment in the history of photography, when artists used the medium as a tool through which they could redefine and transform visions of the modern world. Portraits of significant cultural figures of the 20th century will be on view, including portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston by Tina Modotti, Jean Cocteau by Berenice Abbott and Igor Stravinsky by Edward Weston. The Radical Eye will be on view through May 7, 2017.
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- John Russell, In the Morning, Alpes Maritimes from Antibes, 1890-1. Oil on canvas, 60.3 × 73.2 cm. Courtesy of National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (X9139). Purchased 1965. © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Australia’s Impressionists
Through March 26, 2017
Sunley Room at The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN, UK
For more information call 020 7747 2885 or visit www.nationalgallery.org.uk
This is the very first exhibition in the UK to focus entirely on Australian Impressionists. Forty-one paintings drawn from some of Australia's leading public galleries as well as private collections will convey the impact of European Impressionism on Australian painting between the 1880s and 1890s, and focuses on four of Australia’s major Impressionists: Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and John Russell. Their work shows the growing sense of national identity as Australia approached Federation in 1901. All of the artists featured either studied or worked in Europe at one point during their careers, which influenced their painting styles. The Australian Impressionists painted en plein air, their works displaying a fascination with light and color and a use of bold, experimental techniques. These works, including some masterpieces never previously shown in the UK, will be on view through the end of March.
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Fear and Love―Reactions to a Complex World
Through April 23, 2017
The Design Museum
224-238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG, UK
For more information call +44 20 3862 5900 or visit www.designmuseum.org
This exhibition features eleven installations by some of the world’s leading designers and architects, including works by OMA, Hussein Chalayan, Kenya Hara and Neri Oxman. The newly commissioned works explore a wide range of cultural issues such as networked sexuality, sentient robots, slow fashion and settled nomads. It aims to capture the mood of the present, and establish the Design Museum as the home of design debate. A featured exhibition by OMA, the architecture practice founded by Rem Koolhaas, is a response to the recent Brexit vote, called The Pan-European Living Room. This installation proposes that the notion we have of the domestic interior has been shaped by an ideal of European cooperation and trade. It is furnished with 28 pieces of design from each European Union member state, with a vertical blind in the form of a OMA-designed barcode flag for the EU. Fear and Love runs through April 23, 2017.
