Juan Devis, Roy Choi, Victoria Orphan, Yuval Sharon and Melodie Yashar talk during The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Centennial Celebration Launch Event on September 5 in San Marino, California. Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.
Made in LA
The Hammer Museum at UCLA recently announced a partnership with the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, for the upcoming exhibition Made in L.A. 2020, for the Hammer’s acclaimed biennial. The exhibition will take place at both institutions, showcasing for the first time new installations, videos, films, sculptures, performances and paintings from Los Angeles-based artists, allowing visitors the opportunity to experience a comprehensive contemporary art show in this major West Coast city. The partnership announcement was made by Hammer director Ann Philbin alongside Huntington president Karen R. Lawrence, during The Huntington’s kickoff event for its yearlong centennial celebration.
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Zanele Muholi, Somnyama Ngonyama II, Oslo, 2015. © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York.
Dark Lioness
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is a striking photographic series by Zanele Muholi, a South African artist and activist. The exhibition, which runs through November 3 at Seattle Art Museum, includes a series of 76 portraits taken in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa between 2014 and 2017. Each photograph is unique, asserting important questions about human rights, social injustices and contested representations of the black body.
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Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, oil on canvas, 108 x 108". Brooklyn Museum, partial gift of Suzi and Andrew Booke Cohen in memory of Ilene R. Booke and in honor of Arnold L. Lehman, Mary Smith Dorward Fund and William K. Jacobs Jr. Fund, 2015.53. © Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy Brooklyn Museum.
Napoleon Paintings
Beginning next year, Brooklyn Museum in New York presents a powerful artistic partnership, melding together historic and contemporary art. In this exhibition, a massive and magnificent painting by modern creative Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005, meets the work on which it was based on—Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps from 1801. This also marks the first time David’s original version of the large-scale painting will be on view in New York. The show runs January 24 through May 10, 2020.
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Steve Rosenthal, Halibut Point Surf #1, archival pigment print. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum. Gift of the photographer, 2019.
Where Homer Walked
About a year ago, architect and photographer Steve Rosenthal was approached by Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to shoot photographs to complement the museum’s major exhibition Homer at the Beach. The seaside photographs taken by Rosenthal, who walked in the footsteps of Winslow Homer as part of this project, are now on view through December 1 in their own exhibition titled Along the Shore – Photographs by Steve Rosenthal.
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Preston Gannaway, Baptism, archival pigment print. Museum purchase, 2017.15.3. © Preston Gannaway.Pastels
Pastels at The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, features the oil pastels and watercolors of New York-based artist Alice Dalton Brown. Running through November 24, the exhibition draws on Brown’s fascination with houses and water in her paintings, subject matter the artist says elicits strong memories and a sense of hope and reverie.
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Grace DeGennaro, Continuum (Magenta) (detail), oil on linen.
Temporality
An upcoming exhibition at Center for Contemporary Art Maine examines how contemporary artists use the concept of time as a means of creation through repetition, duration and process. Artists in the exhibition include Gideon Bok, Astrid Bowlby, Caleb Charland, Amy Stacey Curtis, Nathan Kroms Davis, Grace DeGennaro and others. Temporality will be on view November 2 to February 23, 2020.
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Preston Gannaway, Baptism, archival pigment print. Museum purchase, 2017.15.3. © Preston Gannaway.
Five Years of Photography
Five Years of Photography at The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, celebrates the institution’s outstanding collection of photographic works with an exhibition that showcases the most recent acquisition of 500-plus photographs. The Chrysler has also made it a priority to diversify its collection by adding more works by women, people of color and those working in Hampton Roads. The show runs through October 20 in the Frank Photography Gallery.
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