Through her iconic casts of domestic objects and spaces, Rachel Whiteread has created a language of her own, one that subtly tells stories about the quiet moments of our lives and the places they are lived out. Through the more than 100 objects on display in her survey at the National Gallery of Art, it is clear that throughout her 30-year career, Whiteread has honed this voice, and used it to tap into our intimate memories and feelings related to home.
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The Museum of Modern Art presents "Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done," a major exhibition that looks anew at the formative moment in the 1960s when a group of choreographers, visual artists, composers, and filmmakers made use of a local church to present groundbreaking cross-disciplinary performances.
Every fall, Asian Art Week brings a gorgeous array of treasures from the East to auction houses in New York and across the country. Here some highlights of pieces sold at auction last week.
On October 4, Sotheby’s will offer works from the collection of Robin Williams and his wife of over 20 years, film producer and philanthropist Marsha Garces Williams. Join Marsha and their daughter Zelda Williams as they lovingly recount a lifetime of collecting and living with the iconic entertainer.
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Robert A M Stern and Sir Terry Farrell among them, and asks them how and why Postmodernism came about, and what it means to be Postmodern.
Pittsburgh-based visual and performance artist Vanessa German, known for her activism as well sculptures incorporating found objects and female figurines, considers the experience of a vulnerable, underserved, and criminalized segment of America in the exhibition, Things Are Not Always What They Seem: A Phenomenology of Black Girlhood.
This weekend the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan is offering free admission for visitors, giving them a chance to see a rare work on loan. Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1919 Two Women in the Garden (Deux femmes dans un jardin) is making a pit stop at the museum on it’s way to a new home.
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) presents "Stampede: Animals in Art," an expansive, large-scale 20,000 square-foot exhibition spanning floors three and four of the museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building. Featuring approximately 320 objects drawn from every collection across nine curatorial departments, the exhibition will explore the presence of animals in art across centuries and cultures.
Now the top-selling female artist in the world, Yayoi Kusama overcame impossible odds to bring her radical artistic vision to the world stage.
The Walker Art Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art present Siah Armajani: Follow This Line, the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States devoted to the work of Minneapolis-based artist Siah Armajani. Armajani is best known today for his works of public art—bridges, gazebos, reading rooms, and other gathering spaces—sited across the United States and Europe.
