Word: exhibitionisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three years ago (at 84) Feininger died. His reputation has since been climbing without him, and will probably keep climbing for some time to come. The Cleveland Museum of Art is now assembling a huge retrospective exhibition of Feininger's life work, which will tour the U.S. and Europe...
Since its beginning in 1896, the Carnegie international exhibition of contemporary art has aroused as much irritation as appreciation in its native Pittsburgh. It undertakes to round up what the world's artists are doing at the moment, and artists are notoriously a bit ahead of the public. Last...
That fact was made encouragingly clear last week by another big roundup: the Whitney Museum's annual exhibition of American painting and sculpture in Manhattan. There, too, abstract expressionism ruled by force of numbers. But among the 184 exhibits were a handful of pictures calculated to put the new...
Lovis Corinth, whose hundredth anniversary exhibition is now at the Busch-Reisinger, shares much the same fate. Corinth, of course, shows the experience which the young Shimizu lacks, but often not enough when the chips are down.
Mvusi has talked to many contemporary artists in his travels. Although his roots are in native Africa, he is against the "primitive art fad." Aside from a half dozen serious artists, he reports his own country's native artists are "mostly ignorant fellows blighted by curio seekers." Mvusi himself was...