This Week’s Events: Art Basel, Design Miami/Basel, Deceptive Art, Norman Rockwell, New Modern/Contemporary Gallery & More
Switzerland
Art Basel
June 15-18, 2017
Messeplatz 10, 4005 Basel, Switzerland
For more information, visit: www.artbasel.com/basel
- Courtesy Art Basel
Art Basel is a fair that truly requires no introduction (but we’ll give it one anyway). Staged annually across three Meccas of design—Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach, Florida; and Hong Kong—Art Basel brings together collectors and curators alike for an unparalleled showcase of contemporary artworks. For the 48th edition of its Basel leg of the tour, the fair will exhibit the work of over 4,000 artists from 291 of the world’s top galleries, reflecting not just a journey through art’s past, present, and future, but stirring a conversation related to its current debates and aesthetic choices.
Design Miami/Basel
June 13-18, 2017
Hall 1 Süd, Messe Basel, Switzerland
For more information, visit: basel2017.designmiami.com/
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- Design Miami Basel Entrance at Messe Basel New Hall. Courtesy of Design Miami, Photographer James Harris
The design counterpart to Art Basel, this year’s Design Miami/Basel will feature innovative works from hundreds of influential and emerging contemporary designers across the globe and 47 galleries including Todd Merrill Studio, Galerie kreo, Gate 5, and Magen H Gallery. Not just a marketplace for design, Design Miami/ balances intriguing collaborations with panels and lectures with luminaries from the worlds of design, architecture, art, and fashion. This year’s fair is set to be the most diverse and global exhibition yet, so here are 4 must-see exhibits (and 4 works) to get you started.
New York
“License to Deceive: Three Centirues of Illusion in Art”
June 15-August 18, September 5-20, 2017
Hirschl & Adler Modern
730 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10019
For more information, visit: www.hirschlandadler.com
- William Michael Harnett (1848–1892) The Smoker’s Companions, 1878. Oil on canvas, 9 x 12 in. Signed and dated (at lower left): WMHARNETT / 1878 [initials in monogram]
Don’t think that the landscape paintings of Frederic Edwin Church bear any relevance to today’s cultural landscape? Well, Hirschl & Adler will be looking to challenge that notion with their upcoming exhibition, License to Deceive.
Seeking to find the connection between the “alternative facts” dominating today’s headlines and the ways in which artists like Church, George Cope, and John Frederick Peto used deception as a staple of their work, License to Deceive will focusing on still life, landscape painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts from the 19th century to the present.
New Gallery and Exhibition of Modern & Contemporary Art
Through 2017
The Hyde Collection, Feibes & Schmitt Gallery
161 Warren Street, Glens Falls, N.Y.
For more information, visit www.hydecollection.org
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The Hyde Collection recently opened its Feibes & Schmidt Gallery, a new 1,500-square-foot exhibition space, made possible through a donation by Werner Feibes and his late partner, James Schmitt. The two had previously gifted the museum their modern and contemporary art collection valued at more than $10 million.
An inaugural exhibition, To Distribute and Multiply: The Feibes & Schmitt Gift, features more than forty of the donated works by many of the most important artists of the twentieth century including Josef Albers, Bridget Riley, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Louise Nevelson, and Man Ray. Both Feibes and Schmidt knew many of the artists whose work they collected and a portrait of the pair by Kelly is in the exhibition.
Massachusetts
Inventing America: Rockwell and Warhol
Through October 29, 2017
Norman Rockwell Museum
9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge, MA
For more information, visit www.nrm.org
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Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol were both masters of visual communication. In this first-ever exhibition to pair the two artists, Inventing America examines the way in which the two artists embraced populism, shaped the national identity, and presented new ways of seeing twentieth-century America.
Inventing America shows iconic artworks, photographs, film and video footage, props, costumes, manuscripts and documents to reveal the artistic and cultural influence Rockwell and Warhol instilled, during their lives and today.
Washington, DC
“Antebellum Portraits by Mathew Brady” at the National Portrait Gallery
June 16, 2017-June 3, 2018
The National Portrait Gallery
8th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
For more information, visit: npg.si.edu
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The National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. will be offering a retrospective of famed Civil War-era photographer Mathew Brady. One of the most successful portrait photographers of the 1800s, Brady also happened to be one of its pioneers, opening his first daguerreotype portrait studio just five years after the introduction of the first commercially practical form of photography. As the ambrotype began to surpass the daguerreotype in the 1850s, Brady’s glass negatives and print portraits remained some of the finest examples of the medium. Curated by the Portrait Gallery’s senior curator of photographs, Ann Shumard, Antebellum Portraits will trace the trajectory of Brady’s early career and beyond through contemporary engravings and several advertising broadsides he used to market his work.
Los Angeles
Play! At the Autry Museum
June 18, 2017–January 7, 2018
The Autry Museum of the American West
234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles, CA
For more information, visit: theautry.org/exhibitions/play
- Paul Penna, Downhill Racer, July 1968. 35mm Kodachrome slide.
The American West has always served as a wellspring of inspiration for generations both young and old, with its glorified depictions of the rugged, turbulent lifestyles which cowboys lived still captivating audiences from the art, music, and cinema worlds to this day. But possibly the Wild West’s biggest contribution to our cultural minutia has been the way in which it has shaped the imaginations of children—as well as how they interact on a social level—when playing with each other.
Opening on Father’s Day, the Autry Museum will explore the role that the West has had on our imagination and the toys used to further it with its exhibition, Play!. Offering a look at the history of play in the American West through historic and contemporary objects, interactive environments, and hands-on activities, Play! will put over 200 objects from the Autry’s collection of antiques and old timey toys on display to showcase both their social value and the continuously changing concepts of childhood they played a part in.
