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October 7, 2009 – June 26, 2011
Longing for Sea-Change
This series presents video installations by contemporary artists living and working in Africa and the diasporas. Emotionally stirring and symbolic, the visual narratives address broad issues of humanity in moments of upheaval, fragmentation, and transition. The works are also deeply personal, with a longing for transformation and the desire to belong. The series begins with Spirit of ’76 (6 minutes, 24 seconds), made by South African artist Berni Searle in 2007, on view through January 10, 2010. Opening January 13, 2010, is another Searles video, Seeking Refuge (5 minutes, 56 seconds), which depicts the epic story of an illegal immigrant's sea crossing. Other video installations follow through June 26, 2011. Learn more
November 11, 2009 – February 21, 2010
Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings
Although he is known primarily as a San Francisco abstract expressionist painter, Frank Lobdell participated in weekly figure-drawing sessions throughout his career. Lobdell used these weekly drawing sessions as a springboard to develop a vocabulary of abstraction that was informed by the study of the human body and grounded in the formal issues of expressionist gesture and line. This exhibition, organized by Anne Kohs & Associates, will feature approximately 60 figure drawings in ink, pencil, crayon, and wash dating from the 1960s and 1970s, including several works by Lobdell’s former sketching partners Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff that illustrate how each artist approached the figure in a unique way. Learn more
February 17 – July 4, 2010
Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China
This landmark exhibition illuminates a turning point in the development of Chinese ink painting during the 20th century. Drawing upon paintings and calligraphy on loan from Chinese collections new to American audiences, the exhibition highlights the monumental portraits, vibrant bird-and-flower painting, and spectacular landscapes by Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), Qi Baishi (1864-1957), Huang Binhong (1865-1955), and Pan Tianshou (1897-1971). Collectively known in China as the "Four Great Masters of Ink Painting," these artists faced the dual challenges of negotiating the impact of encounters with the West, while inventing new directions for long-held practices of ink painting. Learn more
March 17 – May 30, 2010
The Eye of the Beholder: Honoring Ruth and Robert Halperin
Organized as a tribute to the late Ruth L. Halperin, this exhibition of approximately 50 works given to the museum by Robert and Ruth Halperin exemplifies what committed and generous donors can do for the museum. This exhibition also honors Mrs. Halperin's particular discernment as an appreciator and collector of fine art. It features modern and contemporary art, including sculpture, painting, prints, and multimedia objects, plus some African and other non-Western objects. Learn more
Opens May 5, 2010, then ongoing
Collection Highlights from Europe, Greece and Rome
This revitalized gallery presents important works from the Center’s ancient Mediterranean collection, including portrait reliefs from Palmyra, red- and black-figure Attic vases, marble torsos from Rome, and Cypriote vessels. Major portions of the gallery continue to be devoted to European paintings, sculpture, and works on paper dating from about 1500 to 1800. Due to their sensitivity to light, these paintings and drawings cannot remain on view very long, so this space presents small, focused displays that change twice a year. Celebrating the new installation of classical antiquities, the first rotation examines the European fascination with ruins. Learn more
June 23 – September 26, 2010
William Trost Richards–True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches at Stanford University
In 1992, M. J. and A. E. van Löben Sels gave the museum more than 230 works by William Trost Richards (1833–1905), an accomplished landscape and marine painter. This exhibition includes approximately 75 works, including pen and pencil drawings, watercolors, small oil studies, and a sketchbook, that reveal both his precise technique and his devotion to nature. Richards began to draw in his childhood, and although he lived on the East Coast most of his life, he traveled to Europe more than 15 times, producing numerous studies in fair and foul weather. Seascapes were his favorite subject, and his watercolors and oils contain views of both smooth and turbulent waters and the luminous sky. Learn more
June 30 – October 17, 2010
Buildings on Paper: Architectural Drawings
Like the structures that they define, architectural drawings can be both functional and aesthetic. Plans and elevations can promote an architect’s project, win a competition, or inspire other designers. The 10 drawings in this exhibition are by five designers, including Frank Lloyd Wright, the best known 20th-century American architect.
August 4, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas
This exhibition is the first major American exhibition to present a comprehensive examination of the dynamic visual arts associated with water spirits. More than 200 works present a compelling range of art forms that portray the water deity widely known as Mami Wata (pidgin English for “Mother Water” or “Water Mistress”). The exhibition highlights both traditional and contemporary images of Mami Wata and her consorts from across the African continent, as well as from the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States. It offers a rich variety of media including magnificent masks, kinetic sculptures, vibrant paintings, and inspired shrine recreations.
October 13, 2010 – March 20, 2011
Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates
This exhibition presents compelling diptychs by the Belgian photographer Jean Dominique Burton, who sensitively portrays Vodoun practitioners in Benin and their sacred shrines. The images provide an exceptional glimpse into the esoteric domain of this traditional Fon religion, which is now variously called Vodou, Vodun, Vaudou, or Vaudoux and practiced throughout West Africa and the African diaspora. Burton combines black-and-white with color photographs to reveal a fascinating blend of his subjects' personal charisma and the union of sculpture, painting, and installation art in the interpretation of creation laws that visibly manifest themselves in spirits of plants, animals, humans, and ancestors.
February 2 – May 5, 2011
In a New York Minute: Photograhs by Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt (1913–2009) received critical acclaim as a “photographers’ photographer” during her lifetime and since her death in 2009. Admired by the writer James Agee, who saw the “ceremonies of innocence” in her subject matter, Levitt’s direct approach has been deemed “artless” and “styleless.” Yet it is this ease and apparent effortlessness that has made her images icons of the spontaneity and eccentricity of the New York City streets. Included in this exhibition from the collection of the Capital Group Foundation are 55 photographs that Levitt selected as some of the most important images of her career.
October 5, 2011 – January 1, 2012
Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation 1876-1930
Auguste Rodin, the most famous sculptor of his day, appealed to sophisticated American collectors and had a profound influence on American artists that began in the 1890s and persisted for decades after his death in 1917. This exhibition is the first to examine the scope of this influence, analyzing the impact of his work and his ideas on sculptors, such as Malvina Hoffman and Lorado Taft, and on artists working in two dimensions, such as the photographer Edward Steichen and the painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
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