As fascinating as a polished final work of art is to the viewer, a deeper connection often lies within the process that created it. In the Studio, on view June 1-Aug. 11, 2019, looks into the permanent collection of the Chazen Museum of Art in search of the small details that illuminate artists’ personalities, processes and creative inspiration.
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If you plan to see Au Naturel, the current survey of Sarah Lucas at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum, best leave your penis at home. The show has plenty to spare, whether it’s the feminist artist’s Penetralia pieces from 2008, a series of phallus-shaped sculptures made mainly from plaster and wood, or 2013’s Eros, featuring a nine-foot concrete appendage lying atop a compacted car (below). It makes an ideal complement to her Soap wallpaper (above) from 1989 featuring uncircumcised penis heads staring back at viewers like alien cyclopes.
The Phillips Collection, in partnership with the New Museum, New York, is proud to announce the major exhibition “The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement,” featuring over 60 international artists whose work poses urgent questions around the representations and perceptions of migration, both historically and within the scope of the current global refugee crisis.
After over 50 years hidden from the public view, three works by one of Britain’s greatest painters are headed to the auction block. John Constable’s (1776-1837) oil landscapes of the British countryside are some of the most famous in the genre, and his works are highly valued in his homeland and beyond.
The Corning Museum of Glass is a proud collaborator on an exciting, new competition series, Blown Away—created by producers marblemedia and a co-production of Netflix and Blue Ant Media of Toronto. The 10-episode show, which will bring the art of glassblowing to a global audience through the streaming platform, will launch on July 12, 2019.
This summer, the McNay Art Museum presents two innovative and inclusive exhibitions—Andy Warhol: Portraits and Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today—from June 20 to September 15, 2019.
Posters, in all their various forms and purposes, are a ubiquitous and often over-looked art form. This week in New York, a new museum is opening devoted to their conservation and study. The Poster House, located in Chelsea at 119 West 23rd Street, is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters.
LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool presents the first major exhibition in the UK of American artist Keith Haring (1958–1990). Keith Haring, 14 June – 10 November 2019, brings together more than 85 works exploring a broad range of the artist’s practice including large-scale drawings and paintings, most of which have never been seen in the UK.
Nat and Corrie discuss the Ancient Egyptian sculpture the Seated Scribe.
