......... Adventures in Art

Gertrude X Gertrude • On the left, #GertrudeStein by #FelixVallotton, 1907. At right, #Picasso’s 1906 portrait. • #MetFelixVallotton #PabloPicasso #MetMuseum #MetropolitanMuseum #painting #portraits @metmuseum (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5yaDMaFx4v/?igshid=1thd777pdgofu

Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art at the #JewishMuseum 👍👍 Additional thoughts: . Halpert represented a roster of artists I have long associated almost solely with Alfred Stieglitz’s galleries (Georgia O’Keeffe obviously, Marsden Hartley, Charles Sheeler, John Marin, etc.). Stieglitz was looking for an American modernism (modernism having been a European phenomenon until that point), whereas Halpert embraced American art in both directions—the new and the old (including folk art). The latter interest included trompe l’oeil work by 19th century American masters like #Peto, #Harnett, and #Peale. . I’m loving the exhibitions/installations devoted to dealers. Another example is the current installation of #CentrePompidou’s collection of modern art, which has rooms dedicated to various galleries and dealers, populated with works from the museum’s permanent collection. . Edith Gregor Halpert in 1928 by her husband, Samuel Halpert —> Raphaelle Peale, Venus Rising from the Sea—A Deception, c. 1822 —> #MarsdenHartley, The Sea Shell, 1929 (which also looks like a cabbage)—> #CharlesSheeler, Williamsburg Kitchen, 1937 —> #StuartDavis’ Egg Beater No. 1, 1927 —> #JacobLawrence, When It Is Warm the Park Are Filled with People, 1943 —> #GeorgieOKeeffe, Bare Tree Trunks with Snow, 1946 (at The Jewish Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5lCX5slqTs/?igshid=1rlg0wogtdqrc

#DavidHockney, Yves-Marie in the Rain, 1973. The details. Also mood/weather of the day. (at Sothebys International) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4xl519FZjG/?igshid=v294dhag3dzz

Hellenistic theater mask, marble, c. 3rd-2nd century BC at #Tefaf (at Park Avenue Armory) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4S-fBFF_dT/?igshid=7bir8h238d71

#CharlottePerriand at #FondationLouisVuitton 👌 the original chairs, the recreated rooms, the works by #FernandLeger and #LeCorbusier 👌👌 (at Fondation Louis Vuitton) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3-SK53FatZ/?igshid=8c97k3ny43bd

A few #FrancisBacon details from “Bacon en toutes lettres” at #CentrePompidou. I’ve always loved how the glass covering his works forces viewers to see themselves as they look at the paintings and turns the paintings—so often titled “Study...”—into specimens, but boy do the museum lights get in the way! (at Centre Pompidou) https://www.instagram.com/p/B34pvFalUys/?igshid=kcznnlhlz4uj

Early #Hockney in Words at the 🙌 newly opened 🙌 @alexanderberggruen (at Alexander Berggruen) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3hp2JYlC0O/?igshid=oxjb68vwk5cv

Early #Hockney, a #Klee, and a #Braque in the 🙌 newly opened @alexanderberggruen’s 🙌 inaugural exhibition, Words ‼️ (at Alexander Berggruen) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3hpVyMFEUV/?igshid=k0dpdc0c390a

Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Tulip Boy (c. 1989) in @mamacurator and @susanthompson1’s Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now show @guggenheim (at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2w-AVCFPgf/?igshid=vc6761rnx1c9

Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea —> #amysherald @hauserwirth -> #cheyennejulien @miandn -> #waelshawky @lisson_gallery (+detail) -> glorious #roydecarava @davidzwirner (detail) -> #annialbers @davidzwirner (+detail) -> #sarahsze @tanyabonakdargallery -> #richardserra @gagosian -> #edclark @hauserwirth https://www.instagram.com/p/B2rY_kWFRi1/?igshid=o55rixx3gwbb

#AlexKatz’s falling leaves. Humans for scale. (at Gavin Brown's enterprise) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_yUZtlNB_/?igshid=13nt7kf1yxtgx

I thought this fragment was of a very snarky Cupid head...but apparently it’s the head of a Hercules statue destroyed in 1943. That furrowed brow tho. (at Schloss Charlottenburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzDsVg-FmCM/?igshid=1k3ddz4pzg6mn

One of these #EmilNolde sunflower paintings was in an exhibition of German artists organized by a National Socialist Group in 1933. The other was hung in the apartment of a National Socialist officer in order to get Hitler’s favorable attention when he visited...but only a few years later ended up in the Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937. The Hamburger Bahnhof’s #EmilNolde exhibition unpacks the artist’s complicated (to say the least) legacy. — Sonnenblumenbild I [Sunflower Picture], 1928 Reife Sonnenblumen [Ripe Sunflowers], 1932 (at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/By7tMH8lpgQ/?igshid=1e7nkxgeaybtt

The passageway connecting the staff offices at the Hamburger Bahnhof (#DanFlavin installation on the right 💚) in the part of the building that was a railway terminal —> looking down on the former train turntable-turned-garden. (at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/By5EY8ql6Tt/?igshid=1io6dqkic233e

Details of #ChrisOfili’s #DangerousLiaisons @davidzwirner ✖️ the carefully displayed, dog-eared books which served as inspiration (at David Zwirner) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxxxAOWF-SL/?igshid=1ofi7mpzlirci

Some last minute auction things. @christiesinc : #Rosenquist —> #Rauschenberg detail —> #Thiebaud #watercolor /detail —> #Calder —> #Hockney /detail —> #Stella ⚡️ @phillipsauction #Kruger #BarbaraKruger —> #Lichtenstein 💥 (at Midtown manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxdXD1YlJT-/?igshid=1gyxrsfwger65

Saw @levygorvy’s #Warhol Women last week and have been thinking of the women since...specifically Judy...more specifically, Judy convincing Fred Astaire that she gets male attention simply walking down the street in Easter Parade. Maybe there’s something about the hustle—of her character in the film, required of women in general, also embodied by Warhol. Anyway, ❤️#judygarland ❤️ #easterparade ❤️ #women (at Lévy Gorvy) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxaOas6lipZ/?igshid=eygo4q680pvb