Art & Photographic Exhibitions
Diego Rivera at the Museum of Modern Art: Then and now—revolutionary art for revolutionary times
By Clare Hurley, December 21, 2011
In 1931 the Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a one-man show of Mexican painter Diego Rivera, for which he painted a number of “freestanding murals.” A current exhibition brings together a number of these murals.
“Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde” at the Art Gallery of Ontario
By Joe Silvaggio, November 8, 2011
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto is currently hosting a fascinating exhibition entitled “Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde,” 118 works from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
“Ostalgia”: Art from the Stalinist and post-Stalinist bloc, 1960s to the present
By Clare Hurley, November 3, 2011
An exhibition entitled “Ostalgia” at the New Museum in New York City this past summer brought together the work of over 50 artists from the former Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries.
An exhibition of Russian and Soviet modernism makes its way across Europe
By Tim Tower, September 17, 2011
Photographs, paintings, models and drawings, reflecting the work of artists, architects, engineers and photographers who were inspired by the Russian revolution of 1917, are on view at La Caixa Forum in Madrid, Spain until September 18.
Britain: Bristol’s street art project sidelines social comment
By Mel Simpson, September 9, 2011
Over seventy leading graffiti and street artists have been brought together in a project to paint ten of Bristol’s central multi-storey buildings in Nelson Street.
Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Robert Motherwell and the Abstract Expressionists
By Lee Parsons, August 8, 2011
Two exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto once again raise complex questions about the evolution of postwar art.
Lucian Freud: “A life of uncertainty and loneliness” … and enduring insights
By Paul Mitchell, August 2, 2011
British figurative painter Lucian Freud, a significant figure in modern art, died July 20 at his home in London at the age of 88.
“In Search of a Job—Any Job”
Powerful depiction of the fate of Burmese migrant workers
By Paul Mitchell, February 21, 2011
“In Search of a Job—Any Job: The Life of Burmese Migrant Workers” is an exhibition of photos by John Hulme at Oxford University’s International Migration Institute showing from February 17.
Munich exhibition documents German army atrocity in Afghanistan
By Wolfgang Weber, February 8, 2011
Germany’s greatest post-World War II war crime has been comprehensively documented and exhibited by the two journalists who won the trust of the victims’ bereaved relatives.
Detroit Disassembled by Andrew Moore: The devastation of a major American city
By Tim Tower, January 5, 2011
Detroit was once synonymous with automobile manufacturing and the dominance of American industry. Today’s cityscape is rife with images of decay. Andrew Moore’s photographs in his Detroit Disassembled give expression to the city’s historical tragedy.
Julian Schnabel retrospective in Toronto: Art, celebrity, and the market
By Lee Parsons, December 20, 2010
The current exhibition of the controversial artist Julian Schnabel at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto attempts to look at the relationship between his paintings and his films.
Germany: Missing “degenerate art” works rediscovered
By Bernd Reinhardt and Sybille Fuchs, November 25, 2010
Recent archaeological excavations in Berlin have unearthed masterpieces of early Modernist art, which were denounced and confiscated by the Nazi regime.
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