For one single night of debachery,Wes Lang lands on Sunset Strip and hits the Chateau Marmont to share new drawings inspired by Kippenburg’s “Hotel Drawings.” There is a healthy dose of American history within, not just in subject and location… but in wit and association. The event is tonight, June 23, 2011, and while the likelihood you (or I) will attend is low, I believe the potential of enjoy Lang’s work for the exhibition is high.
Artist Will Barnet will celebrate his 100th birthday on May 25. To honor this extraordinary moment, the Portland Museum of Art will present an installation of his work. Will Barnet at 100, on view April 30 through August 14, will feature approximately 14 lithographs, drawings, watercolors, and oils on canvas from the Museum’s collection as well as select loans.
Image credit: Will Barnet (United States, born 1911), The Blue Robe, 1971, etching and aquatint on Arches cover paper, 23 5/16 x 29 7/8 inches (paper). Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Museum purchase with support from the Friends of the Collection, 1996.52.2. Photo by Melville D. McLean.
On view through December 21, 2010 at New York’s David Zwirner Gallery, is Raymond Pettibon’s Hard in the Paint. The exhibition includes Pettibon’s signature loosely composed drawing, with an emphasis on representations of American society. Pettibon augments the image with key phrases and text throughout – a narrative device that ties the fragments together.
Select works from Hard in the Paint, via Arrested Motion, follow after the jump.
Needles and Sins(my personal favorite blog) published a write up of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Exhibitionyesterday. The selection of drawings and photographs opens tomorrow and running through November 28, 2010, at London’s Fuel Design.
Ms. DiMattia writes, “In London, Fuel Design, publishers of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series, will be exhibiting a selection of 120 original drawings by Danzig Baldaev who documented the art and meanings of criminal tattoos–in over 3,000 sketches–during his time as a prison guard between 1948 and 1986. The exhibit also includes photos by Sergei Vasiliev, whose prints will be for sale.”
I’m highlighting the drawings (after the jump) and the two fine fellows above. The Guardian, Ms. DiMattia notes, has also produced a review of the exhibition.
On view through December 12, 2010, at The San Diego Museum of Art, is a rare opportunity to view a spectacular drawings, lithographs, posters, and paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Artist, aristocrat, and colorful chronicler of the Belle Époque, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) was one of the greatest artists of the late nineteenth century. For the first time in 20 years, more than 100 works by Toulouse-Lautrec will be shown together at The San Diego Museum of Art.
Toulouse-Lautrec’s Paris: Selections from the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection pays tribute to both a superlative artist and one of the Museum’s foremost supporters. In 1987 the Baldwin M. Baldwin Foundation made a gift to The San Diego Museum of Art of nearly 100 works by Toulouse-Lautrec. Since then the Museum has circulated this collection as well as other pieces by this artist in the Museum’s permanent collection widely throughout the United States.
Above is a time-lapse of the exhibition installation. A select group of included works from Toulouse-Lautrec’s Paris: Selections from the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection after the jump.
The Yale Center for British Art will present the work of architect James Frazer Stirling from October 14, 2010. Through over 300 drawings and architectural models, the exhibition, Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, revels Stirling’s broad ranging approach to architecture and practice. He earned international acclaim from innovative projects such as the Leicester University Engineering building (1959–63); the History Faculty building at Cambridge University (1964–67); the Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1977–84); the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection at Tate Britain (1984); and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University (1979–84).
A concurrent exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture, An Architect’s Legacy: James Stirling’s Students at Yale, 1959–1983, complements.
Open for just two more days, the Hammer Museum at the University of California has been host to Rachel Whiteread Drawings since January 31, 2010. The first museum retrospective of the British artist’s drawings, the exhibition does relate the work on paper to her more famed sculptures, but emphasis in on process.
On view through February 21, 2010, Eighteenth-Century Furniture Design highlights more than 30 furniture drawings from Continental Europe and Britain. Combined with furniture from the Indianapolis Museum Of Art, these drawings help to explain and explore how major stylistic developments in furniture flowered and grew in Europe during the period. It’s a significant period, the time of notables like Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton. Through the century the rich curves of the Rococo gave way to the clean lines of Neoclassicism, the designs moving across place via design books.
Strongly recommended if you can get to Indy. I am a great proponent of exhibitions like this one.
Image credit: George Hepplewhite, Double Chest of Drawers, 1787, engraving, Director’s Discretionary Fund, 73.2.125. (in duplicate).
