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Tag Archives: museum of modern art
Georges Seurat’s Circus Sideshow at the Met
Georges Seurat was a visionary. He applied primary colors in tiny dots, and ended up with unbelievably beautiful novel textures and shades. His technique was based on the theory of the color wheel and as a reaction to the spontaneous, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art auctions, art collecting, art collection, art exhibits, art history, art institute of chicago, art museums, art sales, arts, circus sideshow, divisionism, fine art, fine arts, french art, georges seurat, impressionism, john quinn, metropolitan museum, metropolitan museum of art, modern art, modernism, moma, museum of modern art, museums, neo-impressionism, pointillism, seurat, the met
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Max Beckmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Thank God this painting is in New York,” Sabine Rewald kept repeating as she led a flock of reporters through the magnificent exhibition of Max Beckmann paintings that she had curated for the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Given … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art collection, art exhibits, art history, art museums, degenerate art, fine art, german art, german expressionism, german expressionists, german jewish history, germany, max beckmann, met museum, metropolitan museum, metropolitan museum of art, modern art, museum of modern art, nazi germany, paintings
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Picasso: The Sculptor at Work
Picasso is perhaps the best-known artist of the twentieth century. But throughout his career he also remained, in spirit, a genius of a little boy whose next prank was forever unexpected. This fall, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) devoted its … Continue reading
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Tagged absinthe glass, art, art exhibits, art museums, cubism, exhibits, fine art, modern art, modernism, moma, museum of modern art, new york, new york city, nyc art exhibits, nyc exhibits, nyc museums, pablo picasso, picasso, sculpture, spain, spanish art
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Sotheby’s 2015 Impressionist and Modern Art Auction: The Joy of a Making-Believe Billionaire
Art from the collections of Jerome H. Stone, a Chicago entrepreneur, Lola Sarnoff, the Samuel Goldwyn family, and Anthony Goldschmidt led off Sotheby’s spring auction. The latter included a Monet looted from Jacob Goldschmidt by the Nazis in 1941. It … Continue reading
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Tagged abby aldrich rockefeller, america's medicis, american art, art, art auctions, art collecting, art exhibits, art history, art museums, auctions, fine art, impressionism, modern art, Monet, museum of modern art, new york, new york city, nyc art exhibits, picasso, sotheby's, vincent van gogh
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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
Jacob Lawrence, whose entire epic Migration Series is now on display at MoMA, was wonderfully gifted, hard-working and fortunate. In 1941, Edith Halpert, the owner of the avant-garde Downtown Gallery, went to Harlem to explore the work of then totally ignored … Continue reading
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Tagged african-american art, african-american history, american art, american history, art, art exhibits, art museums, great migration, history, Jacob Lawrence, modern art, moma, museum of modern art, new york, new york city, nyc art exhibits, nyc exhibits, nyc museums
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Inventing Abstraction: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art
Fittingly, New York’s Museum of Modern Art opened the centennial exhibition of Inventing Abstraction before the end of 2012. It is a very handsome show, full of varied and vigorous pictures celebrating a new medium that since has swept the … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract art, art collecting, art collection, collection, das kreisen, family story, inventing abstraction, kestnergesellschaft, kurt schwitters, masked ball, merzbild, modern art, moma, museum of modern art, new york, pablo picasso, picasso, schwitters, sonia delaunay, sonia delaunay-terk, the cherry picture, the revolving
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Diego Rivera and the Rockefellers
“Are you going to write about the destruction of the Rivera mural at Rockefeller Center?” people invariably asked, when I told them that I was writing a book about the Rockefellers and their art sponsorships and donations. So I … Continue reading
