Local and National Art Exhibits to Experience NATIONAL MUSEUMS Met presents The Harlem Renaissance & Transatlantic Modernism In February 2024, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism exhibition. Through some 160 works, it will explore the far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and Chicago’s South Side and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South. The exhibition will establish the Harlem Renaissance as the first African American– led movement of international modern art and will situate Black artists and their radically new portrayals of the modern Black subject as central to our understanding of international modern art and modern life. A significant percentage of the paintings, sculpture, and works on paper on view in the exhibition come from the collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Fisk University Galleries and Howard University Gallery of Art. Visit www.metmuseum.org/ Love Gardening? Check out The Morgan Their latest exhibit is Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals. Seeds of Knowledge highlights the collection of 15th to 17th-century European printed herbals assembled by Dr. Peter Goop of Liechtenstein. Herbals were highly illustrated texts that included both the folklore of plants and their medicinal uses, and they served as references to both doctors and lay healthcare providers. The text and illustrations were repeatedly refined as the medicinal benefits of a plant’s use were more clearly understood, and the style of illustration tended towards higher degrees of naturalism. These books were working manuals and were frequently annotated by readers with notes on herbal remedies, medicines, or other uses not found in the printed text. Dr. Goop’s collection is one of the most extensive in private hands. Using the Morgan’s 10th-century manuscript of Dioscurides’ De materia medica as a centerpiece, this Thaw Gallery exhibition will explore developments in the understanding of the healthful and healing properties of plants, as Europe moved away from medicinal folklore towards an increased understanding of the natural world. Open through January 14, 2024. Visit www.themorgan.org. At The Frick Since opening in 1935, The Frick Collection has inspired generations of artists who have engaged with the complex legacies and enduring importance of Old Master painting. Barkley L. Hendricks was one such artist, and the Frick—with its iconic portraits by Rembrandt, Bronzino, Van Dyck, and others—was one of Hendricks’s favorite museums. At the Frick Madison, Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick presents 14 early works by this pioneering American artist who, beginning in the late 1960s, revolutionized contemporary portraiture by uniting portraits of Black figures with traditions of European painting. His work has inspired some of the most prominent artists of today, including Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley. Frick Madison is a particularly appropriate venue for this show, as it was in the Breuer building (then the home of the Whitney Museum of American Art) that Hendricks first showed his art in a New York City museum exhibition, in 1981. Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick, which will display paintings drawn from both public and private collections, is organized by the Frick’s Curator Aimee Ng and Consulting Curator Antwaun Sargent. The accompanying catalogue is authored by Ng and Sargent, with a foreword by Thelma Golden and contributions by Adams, Thomas, and Wiley, along with Hilton Als, Nick Cave, Awol Erizku, Rashid Johnson, and Fahamu Pecou. The Frick will present a roster of educational programs to complement the show. Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits is on exhibit through January 7, 2024. Visit www.frick.org At the Whitney: Henry Taylor For more than thirty years, the Los Angeles–based artist Henry Taylor has portrayed people from widely different backgrounds—family members, friends, neighbors, celebrities, politicians, and strangers—with a mixture of raw immediacy and tenderness. His improvisational approach to artmaking is hinted at in this exhibition’s title, Henry Taylor: B Side, which refers to the side of a record album that often contains lesser-known, more experimental songs. Taylor’s paintings, executed quickly and instinctually from memory, newspaper clippings, snapshots, and in-person sittings, are variously light-hearted, intimate, and somber. In them, he combines flat planes of bold, sensuous color with areas of rich, intimate detail and loose brushstrokes to create paintings that feel alive. Taylor offers a view of everyday life in the United States that is grounded in the experiences of his own community, including the incarceration, poverty, and often deadly interactions with police that disproportionately affect Black Americans. Henry Taylor: B Side presents the artist’s paintings along with a selection of his assemblage sculptures, rarely exhibited early drawings, a large grouping of painted objects on recycled cigarette packs and other everyday supports, and two new installations, one made specifically for this exhibition. Information: whitney.org Sapphic Paris at the Barnes Marie Laurencin’s contributions to 20th century art are under recognized, and Sapphic Paris is the first major US exhibition of her work in over 30 years. Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris examines questions about representation and access throughout art history. Beginning in the early 20th century, French artist Marie Laurencin created a unique pictorial world that placed women at the center of modern art. With a highly original painting style that defied categorization, she moved seamlessly between the male-dominated cubist avant-garde, lesbian literary and artistic circles, and the realms of fashion, ballet, and decorative arts. The exhibition explores Laurencin’s career, from her self-portraits to her collaborative decorative projects; from her early cubist paintings to her signature work—feminine and discreetly queer—that defined 1920s Paris. Runs through January 21, 2024. www.barnesfoundation.org FLORIDA MUSEUMS The Ringling Who is the intriguing man wearing a religious habit and a gold hoop earring in The Ringling’s portrait by Italian Baroque master Il Guercino? And why does he point to a stack of drawings? This fascinating exhibition investigates the sitter, Fra Bonaventura Bisi (1601-1659), a Franciscan Minor Conventual friar whose work as an art dealer, printmaker, and celebrated painter of miniatures made him a major figure in the artistic culture of seventeenth-century Bologna. Offering a captivating glimpse into the worlds of art making and art collecting in Baroque Italy, the exhibition explores Fra Bisi’s artistic training, his close relationships with Guercino and other Bolognese artists and intellectuals, his extraordinary painted miniatures, his dogged pursuit of continued on page 24 22 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
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