NYCvisit.com Newsletter

By Anonymous -

Arts Scene
Enjoy the fall weather by visiting the magnificent floral displays at the New York Botanical Garden. Botanists here learned how to cultivate chrysanthemums during a five-year cultural exchange with Japanese growers, and the resulting fall blooms are on display in Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Chrysanthemum. Over at the American Museum of Natural History, the effects of global warming are explained in Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future. John Adams’ contemporary opera, Dr. Atomic, opening in mid-October at the Metropolitan Opera, explores a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb. The title role of J. Robert Oppenheimer is sung by baritone Gerald Finley. And the noted sculptor Alexander Calder gets an unusual retrospective at the Whitney Museum, highlighting his early work from the age of 27 to 34, in Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926–1934. Featuring Calder’s charming Circus, the exhibition looks at the birth of the artist’s signature mobiles.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Soon opening at the Whitney

By Anonymous -
Image
THE WHITNEY TO PRESENT SELECTION OF EARLY SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS BY OLDENBURG, FILMS OF HIS EARLY HAPPENINGS, AND A SERIES OF WORKS BY OLDENBURG AND VAN BRUGGEN Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room Opens May 7, 2009 Press Preview: Wednesday, May 6, 10am-noon NEW YORK, April 6, 2009 – This spring, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents a selection of early sculpture and drawings by Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), as well as films of the artist’s influential Happenings, together with The Music Room, a series of works that Oldenburg made with his wife and artistic collaborator Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009). The presentation opens on May 7, 2009, and runs through August in the second-floor Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021 whitney.org/press Tel. (212) 570-3633 Fax (212) 570-4169 pressoffice@whitney.org Press Release Contact: Whitney Museum of American Art S
Read more

meet the artist Liam Roberts

By -
Liam Roberts’ fertile imagination transmutes images into abstract-like compositions of strik- ing energy and brushwork. He says that he is not a maker of pictures, but a maker of paintings, and that the viewer completes the work, not simply by looking but by the labour of seeing. Shakespeare, as usual, says it best: “Let every eye negotiate for itself . . .” Roberts’ mediums are acrylic, gouache, collage and ink. This show comprises recent and earlier works. Liam has exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Palm Springs, Geneva and Nicosia. He is represented in Dublin by Peppercanister Gallery.   www.liamroberts.com  /  roberts l@copper.ne
Read more