Monday, December 11, 2017

The Holidays Are Here! Exhibitions to Celebrate the Season

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901)
La Troupe de Mademoiselle Églantine, 1896
Color lithograph, 617 x 804 mm
© Copyright Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greec


Top Museum Exhibitions in NY/CT:

Metropolitan Museum of Art:  "Michelangelo," through February 12; "Leonardo to Matisse," through January 7; "David Hockney," through February 25, 2018.

Met Breuer: "Delirious," through January 14; "Edvard Munch," through February 4, 2018.

The Cloisters: Permanent Collection

Guggenheim Museum: "Art and China after 1989," through January 7, 2018.

Jewish Museum: "Modigliani Unmasked," through February 4; "Fashioning Jewish Dress," through March 18, 2018.

Neue Galerie: "Wiener Werkstätte, 1902-1932," through January 19, 2018.

El Museo del Barrio: TBA [They closed their last exhibitions on December 10, 2017].

Museum of the City of New York "Mod New York," through April 1; "Art in the Open," through May 13, 2018.

Studio Museum of Harlem: "Fictions," through January 15, 2018.

Museum of Modern Art: "Louise Bourgeois," through January 28; "Stephen Shore," through May 28; "Charles White - Leonardo, curated by David Hammons," through January 3, 2018.

MOMA, PS 1: "Carolee Schneedman," through March 11, 2018.

Whitney Museum: "Toyin Ojih Odutola," through February 25; "Laura Owens," through February 4; "Jimmie Durham," through January 28, 2018.

Morgan Library and Museum: "Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection," through January 7; "Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas," through January 14, 2018.

Scandinavia House: "Edvard Munch's Photography," through March 5, 2018.

New York Historical Society: "John F. Kennedy," through January 7, 2018; "Arthur Szyk: Soldiers in Art," through January 21; "Holiday Express: Toy Trains," through February 25, "Vietnam War," through April 22; "Hotbed: Greenwich Village in the 1920s," through March 25, 2018.

Museum of the Native American: "Native Americans in the US Armed Forces," through February 2018; "Infinity of Nations [from the Permanent Collection]," ongoing.

New Museum: "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon," through January 21; "Kalil Joseph," through January 7, 2018.

Hudson River Museum: "Walk with the Artists: Hudson Valley," through January 21; "World War I Posters," through January 21; "Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection," through January 21, 2018.

Neuberger Museum: "Romare Bearden," through December 22; "Janet Biggs," through December 22, 2017.

Bruce Museum: "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec," through January 7; "American Abstraction," through March 1, 2018.

Katonah Museum: "Arman and Nick Cave," through January 7, 2018.

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art: "Between I and Thou," through December 2017.

Edward Hopper House: "Carrie Mae Weems," through February 25, 2018.

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: "Tony Matelli's Hera," through January 1; "Anissa Mack," through April 22; "Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley," through April 22; "Shared Space," through April 22, 2018.

Lehman College Gallery: "Gothic Influence on Contemporary Art," through February 10, 2018. Catalogue online.

Stay turned for Studio and Gallery Holiday Events tomorrow.

I am teaching a course online at Purchase College during the Winter Semester: Impressionism.  If you would like to audit, please let me know.

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Happy Holidays to You -
Beth New York

a.k.a. Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.
Director and owner
New York Arts Exchange, LLC