This Week's Events: Paris Art + Design, Westweek 2017, Masters of the American West, Connecticut Spring Antiques Show & More
Paris
PAD - Paris Art + Design
Jardin des Tuileries
March 22–26, 2017
Facing 234 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
For information, call +33 1 53 30 85 20 or visit https://www.pad-fairs.com/paris/en/
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A moment of quiet at Paris Art + Design 2017 as organizers prepare for the opening.
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Just in time for the first day of spring, Paris Art + Design (PAD) kicks off this week at the Jardin des Tuileries, in the city’s 1st arrondissement. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, this fair has drawn legions of collectors to browse the stalls that constitute this “Cabinet d’Amateur.” PAD is notable for its eclecticism, seeking to promote “an unprecedented dialogue” between modern art, historical and contemporary design (with a generous helping of jewelry to boot). As always, the organizers have made it their mission to identify trends in the market, and this year the emphasis is on Primitive Art. The Jardin des Tuileries sits in the geographical center of Paris, characterized by organizers as “la capital international de la Création et du Goût.” Translation: Paris (and PAD) is the height of cool.
Los Angeles
Westweek 2017: Icons + Innovators
Pacific Design Center
March 22-23
8687 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90069
For information, call 310.657.0800 or visit http://www.pacificdesigncenter.com
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The exterior of the Pacific Design Center, site of WESTWEEK 2017: Icons + Innovators.
On the West Coast, tastemakers will converge at the Pacific Design Center for WESTWEEK, a two-day extravaganza with panel discussions, lectures, book-signings, product launches and showroom openings. On view will be recent offerings from among 2,200 product lines, as presented by 100 boutique and international showroom manufacturers. This year’s edition, which is projected to draw 4,000 people, will consider a range of topics related to the theme of “Icons & Innovators.” Among the design-world royalty on hand: Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Jamie Bush, Timothy Corrigan, Ken Fulk, Holly Hunt, Michelle Nussbaumer, Hutton Wilkinson, John Saladino, Richard Shapiro, Roger Thomas, Madeline Stuart, and Ryan White.
- Logan Maxwell Hagege, The Heart of Everything, oil on linen, 68 x 54 in. Courtesy Autry Museum of the American West.
Masters of the American West 2017
The Autry Museum of the American West
Closes March 26, 2017
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
For information, call 323.667.2000 or visit https://theautry.org/
The art of the American West has often been relegated to a marginal position in the canon of Western art: it seldom fetches prices to match the eye-popping sums paid for an Edward Hopper, and there are far more scholars studying the dynamic impasto of Vincent van Gogh than the sublime landscapes of Albert Bierstadt.
Since its founding in 1988, The Autry Museum of the American West, in Los Angeles, has tried to correct this imbalance by pointing to the way that art has responded to, and helped shaped, the mythology of the American West. This week is the last chance to see the 20th annual “Masters of the American West,” which brings together the work of 76 contemporary painters and sculptors, including Bill Anton, George Carlson, Tammy Garcia, Robert Griffing, Z. S. Liang, Kyle Polzin, Mian Situ, Tucker Smith, Curt Walters, and Morgan Weistling. These artists speak in many voices—from romanticism to realism to impressionism to pop art—but together they make a convincing argument that the art of the American West is no less worthy of attention than that of the Old Masters.
San Diego
Richard Deacon: What You See Is What You Get
The San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101
For information, call 619.232.7931 or visit http://www.sdmart.org
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Richard Deacon makes poetry out of prose, converting humble or everyday materials—laminated wood, linoleum, limestone—into feats of contemporary art.
This week at the San Diego Museum of Art is the opening of “Richard Deacon: What You See Is What You Get,” the artist’s first major museum survey in the United States. Since winning the Turner Prize in 1987, the British-born artist has been on an upward trajectory in the field of abstract sculpture, culminating with a retrospective at Tate Britain in 2014. This new show, which is comprised of about 40 works, is animated by the impish spirit of the self-declared “fabricator,” who delights in subterfuge and misdirection. In this show, what you see is not what you get.
The exhibition was conceived by Anita Feldman, the museum’s deputy director of curatorial affairs and education, and organized by Ariel Plotek, curator of modern and contemporary art.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Audubon: Drawn to Nature
Indianapolis Museum of Art
April 1-July 30, 2017
4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN 46208
For information, call 317.923.1331 or visit http://www.imamuseum.org
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In the early 1800s, John James Audubon (1785-1851) conducted the first systematic survey of American fowl, diligently recording the plumage, behavior and habitats of 500 species of birds.
This week, the Indianapolis Museum of Art pays tribute to this avian-minded frontiersman, author of Birds of America (first installment published in 1827) and namesake of the National Audubon Society, by featuring 75 hand-coloured etchings of birds observed by Audubon in the field. The show has a touch of melancholy, transporting viewers to the wilds of pre-industrial America before the continent was transformed by westward expansion. (Several of the species on view are now rare or extinct.) The spirit of Audubon is everywhere in evidence: his field notes accompany many of these animal illustrations, and the show is organized to trace Audubon’s movement around the continent between 1820 and 1836.
Hartford, Connecticut
Connecticut Spring Antiques Show
Hartford Armory
March 25-26, 2017
360 Broad Street, Hartford, CT
For information, call 860.345.2400 or visit http://ctspringantiquesshow.com/
- Last year’s edition of the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show was a draw for both serious buyers and novice collectors.
This week, the Hartford Armory is home to a celebration of Americana, as many of the best-known dealers in early American furniture and decorative arts gather for the 44th Annual Connecticut Spring Antiques Show, hosted by the Haddam Historical Society. This yearly event is a draw for both serious buyers and novice collectors enticed by the treasures on view, including fine art, folk art, pottery, porcelain, glass, silver, pewter, brass, iron, and textiles. One of the highlights will be “Hidden in the Midden” (Saturday, March 25), when the archaeologist Bonnie Plourde discusses the artifacts recovered during the 2016 excavation at the Thankful Arnold House Museum in Haddam.
