Embarrassed maybe a little to admit, but I have been known to become a member of museums to cut lines. I did so with the recent exhibit at the Metropolitian Museum to visit the Alexander McQueen exhibit experiencing record number crowds….and regretted not having a way to avoid three hour lines the year before to visit the Monet exhibit at the Grand Palais. Earlier this year I became a member of the National Portrait Gallery to visit the Lucian Freud exhibit and saw on the schedule the exhibit “The Queen:
After recently visiting the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibit of the Lucian Freud show Portraits, I almost passed to travel to Texas in August to see the only U.S. presentation of this exhibit thinking myself indulgent. However, as I read articles on the show to follow, I discovered how the two exhibits had been arranged before the artists death the year before and that future shows of this magnitude might be few and far coming with the works value and insurance issues to navigate. As I consider the artist a master of our times, I thought I would allow myself to lay eyes on them one more time. Interesting to me, beyond the fact not all the paintings came to this exhibit including …
Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011) was one of the most important and influential artists of his generation. Paintings of people were central to his work and this major exhibition, spanning over seventy years, is the first to focus on his portraiture.
November 2011 – I’m traveling for a quick two-night trip to the Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal, Germany. I’m flying to Frankfurt to take a 2 1/2-drive to the German museum that displays one of my most favorite self-portraits by artist Oskar Kokoschka from 1917. It was the first time I was able to see the painting in person, having only admired it fro
With my Friday night Drawing at the Met classes providing further reason to be in the great museum weekly, I searched for the permanent collection of Lucian Freuds and found an unplanned exhibit had been created to display seventeen works of the artist. As one of my favorite artists of our time, I took advantage of multiple visits to truly appreciate the extraordinary talent of his brushwork and texture. With the artist’s recent passing in July of this year, having been considered the greatest living painter for so long …
July 2011-Having spent most Friday evenings this year drawing at the Met with artist/teacher Tatyana Zhurko, I did not plan to list all the exhibits I have seen at the NYC museum this year for my Travelogue having become a …
Leck Majewski- A Retrospective: Video Art/ Sculpture/ Photography
A quick overnight to Paris to see the Monet exhibit at the Grand Palais before the January 24, 2011 close date. The Monet exhibit website: www.monet2010.com
Sketching at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Drawing from the Masters: January-June 2011 weekly Friday evening drawing classes with a very lovely and disciplined Russian art instructor, Tatyana Zhurkov . It has been so inspiring to hear
James Ensor’s work had always been on my radar, although it was not overly familiar to me; naturally, when I heard about the show in Brussels at the ING, I used it as an excuse to visit there. Ensor was a wonderful colorist, and I …