Not exact matches
Over the past year, «Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff,» an
important survey of his practice and his most substantial
exhibition in Europe, was on view in Antwerp, Copenhagen, Barcelona and Madrid (and a coinciding
catalog was published).
Haynes is co-curator of an
important Alma Thomas
exhibition currently on view at the Studio Museum and is co-editing a comprehensive
catalog about the artist known for her powerful use of color working in abstraction, which is expected to be published in November.
THIS YEAR»S SELECTION of the Best Black Art Books includes 12 volumes that in various ways are reframing art history — from scholarly works shedding light on major cultural moments and volumes of groundbreaking photography, to
exhibition catalogs surveying broadly the work of
important artists such as Kerry James Marshall and Alma Thomas.
I always read the
catalogs of
exhibitions I see, but just as
important are the
catalogs of shows I miss.
Considered in terms of the social history of American art, however, he's an
important figure, because, as the art historian David Driskell writes in the
exhibition catalog, he was «among a small number of African - American painters in the nation working abstractly at the time, and he was among the few artists of color who were represented by a mainstream gallery in New York.»
More recently,
catalogs accompanied
important exhibitions at Mnuchin Gallery in New York («David Hammons: Five Decades»), a career survey billed as the first of its kind in 25 years, and the George Economou Collection in Athens («David Hammons: Give Me a Moment»), the artist's first major show in Greece, and first survey in Europe.
This
catalog accompanied the
exhibition Seven Americans at Bruce Silverstein Gallery September 6 - October 20 2012, a rendition of Alfred Stieglitz» eponymous 1925
exhibition, which showcased seven of the most
important American artists working during the period: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Charles Demuth, Paul Strand, and Alfred Stieglitz.
The
exhibition catalog was a work of great scholarship and remains an
important reference of Basquiat's art.
Last year,
catalogs accompanied
important exhibitions at Mnuchin Gallery in New York («David Hammons: Five Decades»), a career survey billed as the first of its kind in 25 years, and the George Economou Collection in Athens («David Hammons: Give Me a Moment»), the artist's first major show in Greece, and first survey in Europe.
An excellent essay from the
exhibition catalog by Kenneth E. Silver, «Afterlife, The
Important and Sometimes Embarrassing Links Between Occultism and the Development of Abstract Art, ca. 1909 - 13,» takes its title from the 1979 Rosalind Krauss quote «now we find it indescribably embarrassing to mention art and spirit in the same sentence.»
Colleagues also cite the significance of 2010's «Alice Neel: Painted Truths» retrospective, a landmark
exhibition whose
catalog has become an
important scholarly reference.
While many of the artist's
important works and multiples were shown, the
catalog was modest and the concept of the
exhibition was relatively conventional.
The
catalog (available at the museum store) will be around much longer than the
exhibition will be around, so it is
important that if someone comes across the
catalog in a couple of years that they not feel like they are only getting a part of the story.
Feeley was also an
important Color Field painter [8] and in the early 1960s he was included in the
catalog and
exhibition called Post-Painterly Abstraction organized by Clement Greenberg in 1964.
Exhibition curator John Golding, who wrote what might be the most
important book on cubism, writes in the
catalog that Braque's series of eight studio paintings (the