Last Call: Michelangelo's Drawings, closing February 12th at 9 pm

View of the Michelangelo: Divine Draughtsmans and Designer exhibition at the Met

Michelangelo: Divine Draughtsman and Designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will close on Monday, February 12th at 9 pm.  If you haven't seen the show, please try to squeeze it in by tomorrow. NB: You really need a few hours - with a break - to go through the show throughly. 

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl, ca. 1510–11, 

Chalk, 11 3/8 x 8 7/16 inches, 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924

For those of you who already saw the show, you might feel inspired to go one more time to study a few works that were especially memorable for you.

Or head to the website on this dreary, rainy day to read about Michelangelo and the highlights in the show.

Best wishes for this Valentine's Day Week,
Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.
Director and owner
New York Arts Exchange, LLC
www.nyarts-exchange.com 

Last Call: Modigliani at the Jewish Museum, NY through February 4th

Modigliani Unmasked closes on Sunday, February 4th.  My review of the show was published today in Bonjour Paris.  Hopefully, you have visited this excellent exhibition already.  You have one more day to study these exquisite drawings from the private collection of Dr. Paul Alexandre.  From there, it is a treat and privilege to run to the Met for the Michelangelo drawing exhibition, closing next weekend (Yikes, already!), wherein you can see the influence of the Renaissance master on this 20th century modernist.  (I'll send out another notice for this show during the week.)

If you visit the Modigliani show today or tomorrow, you will also be able to see the wonderful exhibition of clothing Veiling Meaning: Fashioning Jewish Dress from the Collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, on through March 18th.  Also, their new installation of highlights from the permanent collection, Scenes from a Collection, is now on view. 

Amedeo Modigliani, c. 1913.

Image provided by PVDE/Bridgeman Images, New York

Sorry to say the Groundhog saw his shadow - six more weeks of winter :(

I hope you are using this dreary weather to unleash your creative spirit at home, in your studio, at an art school, or through private lessons with professional artists.  I will send out information about opportunities you may not know about through the usual channels.  So  - stay tuned.

Best wishes for the weekend,

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director and owner

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

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.

Also - for more timely recommendations and information about art and art criticism, please follow us on Facebook, where I post daily: New York Arts Exchange on Facebook: 

Happy Holidays to You -

Beth New York

a.k.a. Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director and owner

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

www.nyarts-exchange.com