A new chapel of art opened in Austin, Texas this month. The University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art opened the doors to Austin, the largest and last work by artist Ellsworth Kelly, who died in 2015 at 92. An American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Kelly is known for his abstract compositions of geometric forms in bright colors and patterns. Often associated with the Color Field movement, his work explores form, color, line, and shape.
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HIGH MUSEUM OF ART TO DEBUT MARK STEINMETZ “PICTURING THE SOUTH” COMMISSION
Athens-based photographer created new works focused on the Atlanta airport for the High’s collection
A Rare Fauve View of the Thames by André Derain to Star in Christie’s Impressionist And Modern Art Evening Sale, 27 February 2018
Now at Kavi Gupta’s Chicago venue, Beverly Fishman’s Chemical Sublime uses vibrant colors and iconic pharmaceutical shapes to explore how technology alters our perception and reality. Using cast resin, mirrored Plexiglass, powder-coated metal and phosphorescent pigments, Fishman has created visually stunning work. Her polychrome reliefs and paintings mimic commonly prescribed medications as well as medical imaging technologies such as EEG and EKG machines.
PEM Celebrates the Dynamic Creativity of 20th Century Native American Painter, Poet and Musician, T.C. Cannon
T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America
On View March 3 through June 10, 2018
Iconic conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp wanted art to challenge expectations and make people think. A pioneer of Dada and the father of Conceptual Art, Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer. On view publically for the first time, Marcel Duchamp: Boîte-en-valise runs through May 6, 2018, at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
GETTY MUSEUM PRESENTS A QUEEN’S TREASURE FROM VERSAILLES: MARIE-ANTOINETTE’S JAPANESE LACQUER
The exhibition brings to the U.S. examples of Japanese lacquer boxes from the collection of Marie-Antoinette, part of a significant exchange between the Getty and Versailles
On view through January 6, 2019 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center
Rare Loans Travel to the U.S. from Vienna’s Albertina Museum
This month, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents What Remains to Be Seen, the first major traveling museum survey of Howardena Pindell. Covering five decades of Pindell’s paintings, collages, writings, drawings, and videos, the exhibition also documents her activist projects and includes work from the last two years. Her groundbreaking, multidisciplinary art explores texture, color, and structure. Pindell uses bright colors and unconventional materials such as string, glitter, colored paper and sequins in her work.
Human rights and dignity form the core of Fazal Sheikh’s photographs. For more than 25 years, he has worked with individuals rendered invisible by war, ethnic and religious strife, climate crises, and social banishment, inviting them to share their stories of unimaginable hardship and perseverance. Featuring works from eight of his series, Common Ground demonstrates Sheikh’s sustained attention to the displaced around the world, and his drive to amplify the voices of the marginalized through his documentary-based photographic practice.
