This Week’s Major Events: University Gallery Exhibitions, A Degas Impressionism Exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum & More
February 7–13, 2017
CALIFORNIA
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- Sybil Andrews, In Full Cry, 1931. Color linocut, © The Trustees of the British Museum.
British Modern from the British Museum: From the Great War to the Grosvenor School
February 10 – May 19, 2017
Hoehn Family Galleries
Founders Hall 102 at University of San Diego, 5998 Alcaia Park, San Diego, Calif.
For more information call 619.260.7516 or visit www.sandiego.edu/galleries/
A new collaborative exhibition between San Diego’s smallest museum and one of the largest museums in the world, the British Museum, opens this week. This exhibition will chronicle the graphic work of Vorticism and the Grosvenor School, two of the most significant movements of early 20th-century modern art in Britain. Sixty selected works by masters of British modernism from the world-renowned print collection at the British Museum will be featured for the first in the western United States, giving American audiences the chance to understand the importance of these influential works in avant-garde art practiced in the UK and abroad. Admission to exhibitions and related programs at Hoehn Family Galleries, located on the University of San Diego campus, is free.
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- The California International Antiquarian Book Fair.
50th Annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair
February 10–12, 2017
Friday: 3–8pm; Saturday: 11am–7pm; Sunday: 11am–5pm
Oakland Marriott City Center, 1001 Broadway, Oakland, Calif.
For more information call 800.454.6401 or visit www.cabookfair.com
One of the world’s largest and most prestigious exhibitions of antiquarian books celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year. The California International Antiquarian Book Fair will showcase rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, ephemera and more from the collections of almost 200 booksellers from twenty countries. Special events, panels, hands-on interactive experiences during the three-day fair are free with admission. This year’s special exhibition, from Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, will highlight California authors’ notable contributions to the fiction genre, and feature materials from the recent donations made to the library by Anthony Boucher, influential author, critic and literary mentor, as well as first editions by early members of the Northern California Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Items of great intrigue at this year’s fair include the world’s first photographs of the American West, Harvey Milk’s first failed campaign poster, a book from Abraham Lincoln’s Law Library, a 1946 flyer denouncing violence incited by fake news, and Medieval bibles. Tickets are available online at at the door. Friday admission is $25, while Saturday and Sunday tickets are $15.
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FLORIDA
The Original Miami Beach Antique Show
February 10–13, 2017
Friday–Sunday: 11am–7pm; Monday: 11am–5pm
Miami Fair Expo Center, 10901 SW 24th Street, Miami, Fla.
For more information call 239.732.6642 or visit www.originalmiamibeachantiqueshow.com
The Original Miami Beach Antique Show is America’s largest indoor antique show, with more than 20,000 attendees each year. Its usual venue, the Miami Beach Convention Center, will be closed for renovation so this year, the show will be held at the Miami Fair Expo Center. Browse fine art, American and European silver, antique jewelry, 17th- to 19th-century furniture, porcelain, and more from the Renaissance to Art Deco and virtually every era in between. Hundreds of exhibitors will be in attendance, including Betteridge Jewelers, Camilla Dietz Bergeron, Craig Evan Small, D.K. Bressler & Co, J.S. Fearnley, Jack Weir & Sons, Jacob’s Diamond & Estate Jewelry, Larry Dalton, and Yew Tree House Antiques. Tickets to the show are available online or at the door for $20, and are valid for all show days.
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MASSACHUSETTS
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Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis
Through August 13, 2017
Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace, Northampton, Mass.
For more information call 413.585.2760 or visit www.smith.edu/artmuseum
For the first time outside of Italy, this major exhibition of artifacts from the Roman archaeological site of Oplontis, which was buried and preserved when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, will be on view. This is the very first public exhibition to address Oplontis, a lesser known city than Pompeii and Herculaneum, which were also victims of the volcanic eruption. Ongoing excavations of Villa A, the largest and most sumptuous Roman villa on the Bay of Naples ever to be discovered, and Villa B, once a seaside wine emporium, have revealed a wealth of art. 250 artifacts, including ornate jewelry, coins, ceramics, frescos, and utilitarian objects from these villas are on view, illustrating the differences of wealth and consumption between Roman social classes. Smith College is the final stop on a national tour and the only east coast venue where these important artifacts will be exhibited.
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- Carlo Dolci, (1616-1686), The Virgin and Child with Lilies, 1642. Oil on canvas, 80 x 66.5 cm, Inv. No. 825.1.45, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France. Photo Credit: Scala/White Images/Art Resource, NY.
The Medici's Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence
February 10 – July 9, 2017
Davis Museum at Wellesley College
106 Central Street, Wellesley, Mass.
For more information call 781.283.2051 or visit www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum
The first monographic exhibition in the U.S. devoted to the work of Carlo Dolci opens this week, an unprecedented opportunity to observe masterpieces from the most important painter of 17th-century Florence. This exhibition—the most ambitious Old Master project to date for the Davis Museum—is comprised of about sixty-eight paintings and drawings. Many of these works are borrowed from the Uffizi, Louvre, Met and others, with some never-before-seen works from various private collections. Carlo Dolci was so highly regarded, he earned the esteemed patronage of the Medicis, one of the most powerful and influential families in Italian history. He was best known for his half-length, single-figure devotional works, portraiture, and ornately painted altarpieces. His most notable works were created in the mid-1620s. When Thomas Jefferson saw Dolci’s paintings abroad, he remarked in 1788 that he was a “violent favorite” of his. This chronologically organized exhibition expresses reverence to the aesthetic merits, naturalistic foundation, and cultural context of Dolci’s work.
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MISSOURI
- Edgar Degas, French, 1834-1917; “The Millinery Shop”, 1879-1886; oil on canvas; 39 3/8 x 49 9/16 inches; The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection.
Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade
February 12 – May 7, 2017
Saint Louis Art Museum
1 Fine Arts Drive, Saint Louis, Mo.
For more information call 314.721.0072 or visit www.slam.org
Though it’s a well known fact that Edgar Degas was enamored with Parisian dancers and laundresses, he was also fascinated by high-fashion hats and the women who made them. This inspiration culminated in a compelling body of work that documents the lives of these working women of Paris. Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade brings together sixty Impressionist paintings and pastels, with key works by Degas, as well as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Alongside these works of art, forty exquisite period hats will be exhibited, bringing these artistic depictions to life. This groundbreaking exhibition highlights a little-known but important part of Degas’ legacy, and is the first to examine the height of the millinery trade in Paris from around 1875-1914.
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VERMONT
- A selection of objects featured in the exhibition, Imbibe: Drinking in Culture.
Imbibe: Drinking in Culture
Through May 21, 2017
Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont
61 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, Vt.
For more information call 802.656.0750 or visit www.flemingmuseum.org
Imbibe: Drinking in Culture at UVM’s Fleming Museum offers insight to the uses and significance of a diverse array of drinking vessels from cultures around the world. Carafes, bowls, cups, bottles, beer baskets, pitchers, and more will all be on view, illuminating the complex social, physical and aesthetic experiences of consumption. The exhibited objects, all from museum collections, were designed to give the liquids inside them shape, color, and sometimes flavor, or to keep them at a certain temperature. Each vessel was designed to serve its own individual purpose. Historical and cultural materials will also be showcased alongside these drinking vessels to convey the social rituals, strictures, traditions and expectations of imbibing.
