Mr. and Mrs. Castelli
Tina Barney (American, born 1945)
1998. Chromogenic color print, printed 2010, 46 1/16 x 58 1/4” (117 x 148 cm). Acquired through the generosity of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. © 2011 Tina Barney
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From the collection of MoMA, on view now
Maybe it is time for a new, less militant metaphor. One possibility is a perpetually expanding umbrella, where everything — a historical moment, a museum’s reach and our consciousness — only increases.
— Roberta Smith “With a Jury of Their Peers.” On the new show, ‘Abstract Expressionist New York’ at MoMa. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/arts/design/01abex.html?_r=1&ref=design
FIRST MAJOR US RETROSPECTIVE OF THE WORK OF PAUL THEK TO OPEN AT THE WHITNEY October 21, 2010-January 9, 2011
NEW YORK, August 2010 – An artist who defies classification, Paul Thek (1933-1988), the sculptor, painter, and creator of radical installations who was hailed for his work in the 1960s and early 70s, then nearly eclipsed within his own short lifetime, is the subject of an upcoming retrospective co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Carnegie Museum of Art. Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the work of the legendary American artist, debuts in the Whitney’s fourth-floor Emily Fisher Landau Galleries, from October 21, 2010 to January 9, 2011; it travels to Carnegie Museum of Art, from February 5 to May 1, 2011, and then to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, from May 22 to September 4, 2011.
Complete Press Release: whitney.org/file_columns/0001/9641/paul_thek_release_final.pdf
MoMa to mount major Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art will stage a a major retrospective of the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson from April 11 to June 28, the museum announced this week.
The exhibition, “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” will include 300 prints from 1929 to 1989, “at least one fifth of them previously unknown to the public,” MoMA promises.
