Highlights: East Coast Museum Visits

Visiting the east coast means catching up on as many art exhibitions as possible!! I was able to get to Philly, New York, and of course I’ll be in Boston for the upcoming residency. While it feels there is never enough time to see everything on my list, the highlights of my museum hopping are listed below. I was reminded (in New York in particular) how tricky museum-going can be during the holiday season. I battled long lines, advance ticket booths, and LOTS of crowds to check out some great exhibits. A big one I missed this year was MOMA in New York, unfortunately, but I hope to be back in June. In the list below, I’ve written down artists of particular interest from each show.

Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA Ori Gerscht: History Repeating

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop

This was a fascinating look into the medium’s ability to portray “truth.” Long before Photoshop, photographers have stitched negatives, manipulated, prints, omitted or added details, layered scenes (the list goes on…) to produce a desired result. Great show! And, it was particularly exciting to see my current AIB Oliver Wasow’s artwork featured in this exhibition. Congrats Oliver!

Gerhard Richter, Kathy Grove, Oliver Wasow,  Duane Michals, Frank Majore, Clarence John Laughlin, Wanda Wulz, Claude Cahun, Ralph Bartholomew Jr.,

Entrance to Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop at The Met

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vija Clemins, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Félix González-Torres, Ai Weiwei

Whitney Museum, New York, NY

Sinister Pop

Looking at Pop Art and its relation to darker themes surrounding politics, war, representations of women, dystopias, etc. This was an inventive theme to pursue within the Pop Art genre and I really enjoyed the exhibition overall.

Peter Saul, Ching Ho Cheng, Lucas Samaras, Allan D’Arcangelo

Wade Guyton

Interesting to see Guyton’s artwork in person given the WSJ article about photography & painting I posted last week.

Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 

Double Portrait: Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast, Graphic Designers

I teach a typography unit featuring Paula Scher in my high school graphic arts class. It was great to have the chance to her posters life-size and to browse new projects she is pursuing.

Gallery Wall of Paula Scher's Work at Philadelphia Art Museum

Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp

Extensive collection of work from all five artists. I needed more time to tackle this large show. I appreciated seeing some of the work I was reading about in The Big Archive in person.

Entrance to Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp at Philadelphia Art Museum

Treasures from the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the Permanent Collection

Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Gerhard Richter,  Masahisa Fukase, Shomei Tomatsu, Hiroh Kikai, Adolphe Braun, Joachim Koester

Entrance to Philadelphia Art Museum Photography Collection