Museum Exhibitions in November

Princesskitty22 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:13:54 -0700

I found this great article in the New York Times about exhibitions this month and thought that I would share it with you! Don't worry, they're not all in New York, they're all over the country. Although, it's a great excuse for a road trip!

Jasper Johns: GRAY An examination of the use of gray in Mr. Johns’s paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings since 1955. More than 130 works have been assembled, including major new pieces never before exhibited. Nov. 3 through Jan. 6 at the Art Institute of Chicago, (312) 443-3600; artic.edu. Travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Feb. 5-May 4).

TRADITION REDEFINED: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CHINESE INK PAINTINGS FROM THE CHU-TSING LI COLLECTION, 1950-2000 More than 60 scrolls, albums and framed works by 35 Chinese artists from the art historian Chu-tsing Li survey the last half-century of Chinese ink painting. Nov. 3 through Jan. 27 at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (617) 495-9400; artmuseums.harvard.edu/sackler. Travels to the Phoenix Art Museum (June 29-Sept. 14), the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla. (Oct. 11-Jan. 4, 2009) and the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence (Feb. 21-May 24).

MARTIN PURYEAR A retrospective of an artist who is among the most talented of the Post-Minimalist American sculptors. It includes 45 works, primarily in wood, tracing his development from his first solo museum show in 1977 to today. Nov. 4 through Jan. 14 at the Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan, (212) 708-9400; moma.org. Travels to the Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth (Feb. 24-May 18), the National Gallery of Art, Washington (June 22-Sept. 28) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the fall. COLOR AS FIELD: AMERICAN PAINTING, 1950-75 A new appreciation for American Color Field painting - large canvases stained with areas of fluid color - motivates this survey of around 40 works by Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Frank Stella and others. Nov. 9 through Feb. 3 at the Denver Art Museum, (720) 865-5000; denverartmuseum.org. Travels to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington (Feb. 29-May 26) and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville (June 20-Sept. 21). BEATIFIC SOUL: JACK KEROUAC ON THE ROAD The New York Public Library’s Jack Kerouac Archive provides the foundation for a celebration of this Beat writer and poet on the 50th anniversary of “On the Road.” Displays include several unpublished manuscripts, drafts and notes for published works, diaries, journals, letters, drawings and photographs of him and his family. Nov. 9 through March 16, (212) 869-8089; nypl.org.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES: THE ART OF NORMAN ROCKWELL A show celebrating an unpretentious painter of everyday life who aspired to little more than entertaining the nation. It demonstrates his ingratiating sincerity in original oil paintings of appealing social and domestic scenes as well as tear sheets for his many Saturday Evening Post covers. Nov. 10 through Feb. 3 at the Akron Art Museum, Ohio, (330) 376-9185; akronartmuseum.org. Travels to the Orlando Museum of Art, Florida (March 1-May 26); the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va. (Nov. 8-Feb. 1, 2009); and the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Nov. 14-Feb. 7, 2010).KORI NEWKIRK A young artist known for performance-based videos and curtains of pony beads, their colors arranged to create swaying images, has a museum survey. Nov. 14 through March 9 at the Studio Museum in Harlem, (212) 864-4500; studiomuseum.org.

THE FIRST IMPRESSIONIST: EUGÈNE BOUDIN An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Boudin (1824-1898), one of the great 19th-century French artists and an early mentor to the young Claude Monet. His contribution to Impressionism has often been overlooked, but his charming and accessible pictures are sure to make this show a crowd pleaser. Nov. 14 through Jan. 27 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, (804) 340-1400; www.vmfa.state.va.us.

LAWRENCE WEINER: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE A retrospective for this veteran Conceptualist, best known for his works on paper using language. It includes his films, videos, books, posters, public commissions and audio works. Nov. 15 through Feb. 10 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, (800) 944-8639; whitney.org. Travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (April 13-July 14).

EERO SAARINEN: SHAPING THE FUTURE The North American premiere of a touring retrospective of the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen (1910-1961), whose designs include the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Nov. 17 through March 30 at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., (248) 645-3323; www.cranbrook.edu. Travels to the National Building Museum, Washington, (May 3-Aug. 23); the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Walker Arts Center (Sept. 14-Jan. 4, 2009); the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis (Jan. 30-April 27); the Museum of the City of New York (fall 2009) and Yale University, New Haven, Conn. (spring 2010).

PICTURING THE BIBLE: THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN ART To tell the story of how Christians first expressed their religious beliefs, this landmark show brings together rare early examples of Christian art, including frescoes, marble sculpture and sarcophagi, vessels and reliquaries, carved ivories, engraved gold glass cups, statuettes, seals, decorated crosses and illuminated Bibles. Some pieces have never before left their churches and monasteries. Nov. 18 through March 30 at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, (817) 332-8451; kimbellart.org.

INDIAN PAINTING Selected from collections across India, the 124 paintings in this exhibition trace the evolution of Indian court painting from the 14th through the late 19th century. Among the displays are particularly fine examples from the Mughal, Deccani and Rajput courts. Nov. 18 through Jan. 27 at the Dallas Museum of Art, (214) 922-1200; dallasmuseumofart.org.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS The completion of a $158.2 million six-year building renovation and expansion, designed by Michael Graves, provides 35,000 square feet of new exhibition space. In addition to reinstalling more than 5,000 works from its permanent collection, the museum inaugurates the new space with two four-month-long exhibitions: “Julie Mehretu: City Sitings” and “The Best of the Best: Prints, Drawings and Photographs From the D.I.A. Collection.” Opens Nov. 23. (313) 833-7900; dia.org.

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Museum Exhibitions in November