Events: May 23, 2012
Selected by Andrew Butterfield
May 1, 2012 – July 29, 2012
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
The Frick Collection, New York
This small and exquisite show at the Frick Collection brings out the subtlety of Antico's sculptures, revealing them to be more than just de luxe items for delectation, but also extremely finely calibrated studies of poetic sensibility.
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Selected by Martin Filler
May 17, 2012 – August 12, 2012
‘Bauhaus: Art as Life’ at the Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Design aficionados who missed the epic 2009 Bauhaus surveys held in New York and Berlin to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the renowned modern art-and-architecture school can make up for this loss by viewing the 400 works in “Bauhaus: Art as Life.”
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Reviewed in the NYR
April 1, 2012 – August 12, 2012
Renoir. Between Bohemia and the Bourgeoisie: The Early Years
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
In the August 16 issue, Willibald Sauerländer writes: "This exhibition shows us Renoir’s work before his 'Arcadian turn,' that is, from the years before his social and commercial success."
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Selected by Mark Ford
April 4, 2012 – August 19, 2012
Titian at the National Gallery
The National Gallery, London
There are two small exhibitions of works by Titian at the National Gallery, and both will take your breath away.
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Selected by Martin Filler
May 12, 2012 – August 27, 2012
‘Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle’ at Neue Galerie
The Neue Galerie, New York
The forgotten Austrian pioneer is rediscovered in “Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen,” at New York’s Neue Galerie.
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
May 18, 2012 – September 2, 2012
Christer Strömholm: Les Amies De Place Blanche
The International Center of Photography, New York
The Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm is particularly famous for his depictions of the transsexuals he befriended in Paris' Place Blanche in the 1950s, the subject of this moving exhibition.
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Reviewed in the NYR
May 23, 2012 – September 3, 2012
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
In the June 21 issue, Martin Filler writes: "Though well selected, this retrospective does not substantially alter what we already knew about this astonishingly prolific, technically adept, but only sporadically engaging virtuoso."
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Reviewed in the NYR
May 15, 2012 – September 3, 2012
Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In the August 16, 2012 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes: "Moroni’s portrait of an intent young man, and the artist’s hardly less phenomenal portrait of a little girl, make this show momentous."
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