Reclining Woman with Drapery - Fernando Botero, 2004.
Every year in early June the massive art event Bushwick Open Studios gives New Yorkers an opportunity to visit the workhorses of the New York art economy — Brooklyn-based artists — in their natural environment: their studio. Bushwick Open Studios 2012, the massive neighborhood-wide festival’s sixth edition, runs June 1-3 and boasts a whopping 540-something events and exhibitions. ARTINFO has parsed the offerings, and came up with these 10 must-visit exhibitions, pop-ups, and studio buildings.
(via artinfo.com)
Ghost - Rachel Whiteread, 1990.
Installation - Plaster on steel frame, 269 x 355.5 x 317.5 cm.
Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
(Experienced this in person, August 2011)
![Ginevra de’ Benci [obverse] - Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1474/78.
Italian Renaissance - Oil on panel, 38.1 x 37 cm.
Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
(Experienced this in person, August 2011)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fywgGgKa1qeo4xao1_1280.jpg)
Ginevra de’ Benci [obverse] - Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1474/78.
Italian Renaissance - Oil on panel, 38.1 x 37 cm.
Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
(Experienced this in person, August 2011)
Portrait of a Lady - Rogier van der Weyden, circa 1460.
Northern Renaissance - Oil on panel, 37 x 27 cm.
Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
(Experienced this in person, August 2011)
Raw/Cooked: Heather Hart
Location: The Brooklyn Museum - New York City
April 13th until June 24th, 2012
The fourth exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series presents the work of Bedford-Stuyvesant–based artist Heather Hart. Hart built a large-scale structure titled The Eastern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the Mother for display in the Museum’s fifth-floor rotunda. She describes the work as “an independent rooftop, removed from its house, and dropped from the sky to live its own life in a new context. A rooftop can refer to home, stability, or shelter, but in this context, it is also an action of reclaiming power.” The work makes reference to the Museum’s ancient Egyptian and African collections and to the Jan Martense Schenck House, a two-room structure built in 1676 that is Brooklyn’s second-oldest example of Dutch-American architecture, and the oldest architecture in the Museum’s period room collection.
Viewers are encouraged to physically interact with The Eastern Oracle and to use it as a place for self-reflection and self-empowerment.
(via brooklynmuseum.org)
Pretty interesting interactive exhibit, I enjoyed and recommend it!
There are some rules/guidelines and you must sign a waiver, so check out the museum’s website before you visit.
Landscape with Wheat Sheaves and Rising Moon - Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
Post-Impressionism - Oil on canvas, 72 x 91.3 cm.
Permanent Collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.
Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn
Location: The Brooklyn Museum, New York City.
(Long-term installation - Great Hall, 1st floor)
This innovative, cross-cultural installation was developed to create new ways of looking at art by making connections between cultures as well as objects. Located in the Museum’s first-floor Great Hall, it provides for the first time a dynamic and welcoming introduction to the Museum’s extensive collections, featuring pieces that represent peoples throughout time and around the world.
Connecting Cultures is organized around three main themes: “Connecting Places,” “Connecting People,” and “Connecting Things.” In viewing the juxtaposition of thematically linked works, visitors are invited to consider the importance of place, of self-representation in art, and of the role that objects play in supporting personal and cultural identity. Works on display include Gaston Lachaise’s monumental Standing Woman, Nick Cave’s Soundsuit, and kero cups used in Andean ritual.
(via brooklynmuseum.org)
I enjoyed it - Very small in size, but enriching in culture.
Cosmic Diagram - Western India, 18th century.
This image maps the cosmos as conceived by Jainism, an ancient Indian religion. In the Jain tradition, reaching Enlightenment requires a spiritual journey across levels of understanding. The levels are shown here as concentric rings separated by oceans. The world we know appears in the outer rings and in the corners, populated by people in small pavilions and crisscrossed by rivers. At the center is Jambhudvipa, the mountainous continent of the gods.
Indian Art/Jainism - Opaque watercolors on cotton, 90.2 x 91.4 cm.
(Experienced this in person, May 2012)
The Seasons - Lee Krasner, 1957.
Abstract Expressionism - Oil on canvas, 235.59 x 517.53 cm.
Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
(Experienced this in person, May 2012)
Calder’s Circus - Alexander Calder, 1926-31.
American Art - Wire, wood, metal, cloth, yarn, paper, cardboard, leather, string, rubber tubing, corks, buttons, rhinestones, pipe cleaners and bottle caps, 137.2 x 239.4 x 239.4 cm.
Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
(Experienced this in person, May 2012)
Divan Japonais (Japanese Sette) - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893.
Art Nouveau - Lithographed poster, 79.5 x 59.3 cm.
Permanent Collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.
