Art Events/Exhibitions

Event:

—Learning & Product Expo:  ART! will be held July 10-12 at Chicagoland Western Suburbs, Hickory Ridge Marriott Conference Hotel, Lisle, IL.  Here you can immerse yourself in a unique experience for artists where you can choose from 200 art classes taught by some of the most popular instructors in the country and visit an exhibit hall packed with art material manufacturers to view free demonstrations, learn about art supplies and see new materials.  Registration begins May 1 and classes begin July 9.  Visit http://www.learningproductexpo.com/chi/home.cfm for more info.

Exhibitions:

—Becoming Edvard Munch:  Influence, Anxiety and Myth is at The Art Institute of Chicago through April 26.  This rich exhibition brings together approximately 150 works, including 75 paintings and 75 works on paper by Munch and his peers, many rarely seen in the U.S.  It is organized around the following themes:  loneliness and solitude, the street, anxiety, love and sexuality, death and dying, the bather, and nature.

—Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris is at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, through April 26.  The exhibition of over 80 remarkable oil paintings, posters, photographs, drawings and lithographs marks the first time in over 15 years that the Clark will show nearly its entire collection of works by the great French painter and printmaker.  Also displayed are related works by contemporaries including Degas, Bonnard and others.

—Pride of Place – Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age is at the National Gallery of Art through May 3.  Included are some 48 paintings, as well as 23 maps, atlases, illustrated books and prints that offer a comprehensive survey of the Dutch cityscape.  Joining Jacob van Ruisdael’s celebrated Haarlem with the Bleaching Fields are works by some 40 Dutch masters.  This exhibition coincides with the 400^th anniversary of the Dutch exploration and settlement of the Hudson River Valley.

—Cezanne and Beyond is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through May 17.  This is the only venue for this major exhibition exploring Cezanne’s impact on artists of succeeding generations.  Included are more than 150 works, including a large group of paintings, watercolors and drawings by Cezanne, along with those of 18 later artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden and Sherrie Levine, among others.

—Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, at the Dallas Museum of Art through May 17, provides insight into the life of Tutankhamun and other royals of the 18^th Dynasty, and all of the treasures included are between 3,300 and 3,500 years old.  On display are 50 of the boy king’s burial objects, including his royal diadem, and more than 70 additional objects from tombs of 18^th Dynasty royals and several non-royal individuals.  Tickets required. http://dallasmuseumofart.org/Dallas_Museum_of_Art/View/Tut/ID_198988.  Travels to the de Young Museum, San Francisco, June 27 to March 28, 2010.  For info/tickets, visit http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=1015.

—Warhol Live, at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, through May 17, presents the first comprehensive exploration of Warhol’s work as seen through the lens of music.  This exhibition brings together a wide variety of works depicting pop music royalty.  Major silkscreen paintings, album covers, illustrations and photographs inspired by music and the performing arts, along with films and sound recordings, will provide a visual and aural score to Warhol’s extraordinary work and life.

—Louise Bourgeois, at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., through May 17, presents a major survey of the works of Louise Bourgeois.  Included are early drawings and paintings followed by the sculptural series of “Personages”—works that encompass a startling array of images and materials.  The highlight of the exhibition is a stellar array of her rarely seen masterpieces:  the large structured environments known as the “Cell” series.

—Paper:  Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded on view at MoMA, NYC, through June 22, focuses on works on paper, including prints, illustrated books and selected drawings that explore and manipulate the materiality of paper itself.  Many of the featured artists emerged during the 1960’s and 1970’s—Ed Ruscha, Lucio Fontana and Dorothea Rockburne, among others; and there are works by artists from more recent years as well—Ellen Gallagher, Martin Creed, and others.