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My favorite museum is MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art. It's been a while, so we had intended to see it on Tuesday afternoon, but we ended up spending the day in the ER. We had intended to take a day trip to Philadelphia on Friday, and see the Barnes, but that fell through due to illness, among other things.
This time we visited the Guggenheim. I had been there before, but Cindy hadn't, and I wanted her to see the buiding (interior, above). The art was secondary. But I was interested in the art. There were five shows. Carol Bove had the spiral ramp. She is a San Francisco arts with a long and varied career. She did 2D geometric abstracts which were fine. A couple of phases of very large steel sculptures, which I liked. And then some found object assemblages, which I didn't care for. They had an exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg prints. Not really my thing, but I found them interesting to see. They have an ongoing exhibit of paintings from their collection - Renoir, Lautrec, Degas, Manet, pre-cubist Picasso, Schiele, Van Gogh, etc. I was just going to do a quick walkthrough, but I really enjoyed it. There was also an exhibition of early 20th century modernists.
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/carol-bove
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/collection-in-focus-robert-rauschenberg-life-cant-be-stopped
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/collection-in-focus-modern-european-currents
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/thannhauser-collection
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/gabriele-munter
The one I was most interested to see was Gabrielle Münter, and early 20th century Expressionist. She has a painting at the Milwaukee Art Museum that I like, so I was interested to learn more. It turns out I don't care of most of her work. She did a variety of work - landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes. But I really like her portraits.
Portrait of Mrs. [Olga] von Hartmann (Bildnis Frau von Hartmann), ca. 1910–11
This one actually belongs to the Milwaukee Art Museum, but I don't recall seeing it before.
Portrait of a Young Lady with a Large Hat, 1909
Self-portrait, ca. 1909-1910
The next day we went to the International Center for photography. They had several exhibitions. There were two artists from the Côte d’Ivoire. One did my kind of thing - abandoned industrial spaces. The other did very striking scenes, in mostly red. https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/latitudes
Another that I wanted to see was on Eugène Atget. He took photographs of Paris for several decades around the turn of the century. https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/eugene-atget
The previous day I had taken this photo at our hotel:
And then saw these by Atget:
But it was funny going from the Guggenheigm, with its artworks displayed on an ever-widening spiral ramp, back to a rectangular gallery.
On Friday when I was sick, Cindy met a friend at the Armory, and saw the AIPAD exhibition of photographic art. It was all current artists and galleries showing. She said it was really good.
A few pieces of art caught my eye at LaGuardia airport, including this one by Rashid Johnson...
Broken Men
There's a photographer we follow on Substack, named Rob Stephenson, who publishes a newsletter called The Neighborhoods. He had twenty photographs up in the food court at Grand Central, so we hunted those down.
And finally, there are often sculptures in the median along Park Avenue. This time was a series of gorillas and bears, by French artist Michel Bassompierre called Fragile Giants
This time we visited the Guggenheim. I had been there before, but Cindy hadn't, and I wanted her to see the buiding (interior, above). The art was secondary. But I was interested in the art. There were five shows. Carol Bove had the spiral ramp. She is a San Francisco arts with a long and varied career. She did 2D geometric abstracts which were fine. A couple of phases of very large steel sculptures, which I liked. And then some found object assemblages, which I didn't care for. They had an exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg prints. Not really my thing, but I found them interesting to see. They have an ongoing exhibit of paintings from their collection - Renoir, Lautrec, Degas, Manet, pre-cubist Picasso, Schiele, Van Gogh, etc. I was just going to do a quick walkthrough, but I really enjoyed it. There was also an exhibition of early 20th century modernists.
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/carol-bove
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/collection-in-focus-robert-rauschenberg-life-cant-be-stopped
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/collection-in-focus-modern-european-currents
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/thannhauser-collection
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/gabriele-munter
The one I was most interested to see was Gabrielle Münter, and early 20th century Expressionist. She has a painting at the Milwaukee Art Museum that I like, so I was interested to learn more. It turns out I don't care of most of her work. She did a variety of work - landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes. But I really like her portraits.
Portrait of Mrs. [Olga] von Hartmann (Bildnis Frau von Hartmann), ca. 1910–11
This one actually belongs to the Milwaukee Art Museum, but I don't recall seeing it before.
Portrait of a Young Lady with a Large Hat, 1909
Self-portrait, ca. 1909-1910
The next day we went to the International Center for photography. They had several exhibitions. There were two artists from the Côte d’Ivoire. One did my kind of thing - abandoned industrial spaces. The other did very striking scenes, in mostly red. https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/latitudes
Another that I wanted to see was on Eugène Atget. He took photographs of Paris for several decades around the turn of the century. https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/eugene-atget
The previous day I had taken this photo at our hotel:
And then saw these by Atget:
But it was funny going from the Guggenheigm, with its artworks displayed on an ever-widening spiral ramp, back to a rectangular gallery.
On Friday when I was sick, Cindy met a friend at the Armory, and saw the AIPAD exhibition of photographic art. It was all current artists and galleries showing. She said it was really good.
A few pieces of art caught my eye at LaGuardia airport, including this one by Rashid Johnson...
Broken Men
There's a photographer we follow on Substack, named Rob Stephenson, who publishes a newsletter called The Neighborhoods. He had twenty photographs up in the food court at Grand Central, so we hunted those down.
And finally, there are often sculptures in the median along Park Avenue. This time was a series of gorillas and bears, by French artist Michel Bassompierre called Fragile Giants
