Generation Paper: A Fashion Phenom of the 1960s, Museum of Art and Design, Columbus Circle, NYC. closing on Sunday. A welcome trip down Memory Lane of the 1960s, when clothes designer Mary Quant, hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, and models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy were all the rage in the fashion world. An absolutely fab exhibition that should have received more publicity. You'll escape into your recollection of Beatles songs, while Swifties groove on Taylor Swift music playing throughout an exhibition of her clothes on the second floor (closing March 24, 2024). Learn about the history of the paper dress and its demise with this video.
Also at MAD - Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture, closing on Sunday. Not as exciting as Generation Paper or Craft Front and Center, but worth a giggle or two when you walk through the show. Let me know what you think of it, if you decide to visit.
Gallery Installation of Craft Front and Center (Photo courtesy of MAD)
Craft Front and Center: Exploring the Permanent Collection, continues through January 14, 2024, and I am so glad it does. I can't wait to return for a longer, more intensely focused visit with these extraordinary artworks. You will find enormous imagination here. I could not select my favorite - I loved each and every piece. A must!
New York Now: Home, The Photography Triennial at the Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue between 103rd and 104th Streets, NYC. Great photos of our great city that celebrate our diversity and particular aesthetics.
Best wishes for the Labor Day Weekend Holiday,
Beth
Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD
Director and owner, New York Arts Exchange, LLC
Also closing today, the excellent exhibition of works by and works of the Baroque artist Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter, which will close at 5 pm. The catalogue is $50 or $45 for members. Juan de Pareja's relation to Velázquez has always been a bit murky. The curators make an effort to follow the dots and explain it coherently to you.
It's that time of year -
Museum Mile, Tuesday, June 13, 6 - 9 pm
Free admission to:
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Juan de Paraja, Lagerfeld, Van Gogh's Cypresses, and more . . .
Thursday, May 25, 2023
11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET
Federation of Alliances Françaises USA
In English
Please join us for a conversation with co-curator of Cubism and the Trompe L’Oeil Tradition, and one of the world’s leading experts on Picasso, Elizabeth Cowling, Professor Emerita, Edinburgh University, and art historian Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, whose translations of André Salmon’s art criticism touch on this aspect of Picasso’s work. They will discuss how this exhibition came about, from concept to installation, and the various themes presented in the exhibition which help us understand the relationship between Cubism and trompe l’oeil still life paintings and decoration. They will also discuss how this exhibition relates to Dr. Cowling’s extensive body of work on Picasso.
Elizabeth Cowling is Professor Emerita in the History of Art and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on European Modernism and specialised in the work of Picasso. Publications include Picasso: Style and Meaning (2002), Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose (2006), and Picasso Portraits (2016). She has co-curated major exhibitions, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (ACGB, 1978), On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, De Chirico and the New Classicism, 1910-1930 (Tate, 1990), Picasso: Sculptor/Painter (Tate, 1994), Matisse Picasso (Tate; Grand Palais, Paris; MOMA, New York, 2002-3), and Picasso Looks at Degas (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Museum Picasso, Barcelona, 2010-11). Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition, which she curated with Emily Braun, ran at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, between October 2022 and January 2023.
Dr. Gersh-Nesic specializes in the history of Cubism and the Cubist critics, most notably the poet/critic André Salmon who published the first history of Cubism in his book La Jeune Peinture française (1912). This exhibition illustrates his chapter on collage in La Jeune Sculpture française (written in 1914 and published in 1919, after World War I). Dr. Gersh-Nesic translated both books, published together in André Salmon on French Modern Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005). A revised translation of La Jeune Peinture française is now available in Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and “Young French Painting” (Za Mir Press, 2022), which features an introduction by renowned Salmon expert Dr. Jacqueline Gojard, Professor Emeritus of Literature, University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), and her numerous additions to Dr. Gersh-Nesic’s original annotations. Their previous collaboration focusses on the relationship between Picasso and Salmon: Pablo Picasso and André Salmon: The Painter, the Poet, and the Portraits (Za Mir Press, 2019).
Above image:
Juan Gris, Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine
Still Life with a Guitar, 1913
Oil on canvas 26 × 39 1/2 in. (66 × 100.3 cm)
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
This event will be in English and is on Zoom and free for all Alliance Française members, AATF members, and invited guests of the presenters or publicist. Non-members or persons who have no AF chapter nearby can purchase tickets ($10). Please click here to register.
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