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☆ Visions of Ukraine in Miami Beach
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Peter Saenger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
In the 1970s, in Miami Beach’s fading neighborhood of South Beach, many hotels provided long-term lodging to people in their 70s and 80s. Among them was George Voronovsky, who was born in 1903 and began making art in the last decade of his life. After he died in 1982, Voronovsky’s work was inherited by a photographer friend, Gary Monroe, and in the last four decades a few pieces have been exhibited in group shows. Now the artist is getting his first major museum exhibition at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, where “George Voronovsky: Memoryscapes” opens on March 24. With more than 80 pictures, sculptures and other material, the show reveals that Voronovsky’s main project was to evoke the vanished world of early 20th-century Ukraine, where he grew up.
☆ How Salvador Dalí Built His Brand
  + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Peter Saenger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
“The Image Disappears,” a new exhibition opening on Feb. 18 at the Art Institute of Chicago, explores the clashing impulses that made Salvador Dalí tick. Through much of the 20th century, the public knew Dalí as a kind of surrealist court jester. But behind the showmanship lay a serious artist, with formidable technique and dark, shape-shifting meanings. Viewed one way, “The Image Disappears” (1938) looks like the profile of a man’s face, with a beard and mustache that make him resemble the 17th-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. Was Dalí simply comparing two favorite artists who worked at the same time?
☆ An American Collector in Egypt
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Peter Saenger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
The American industrialist Charles Lang Freer collected all kinds of art, from Asian ceramics to paintings by James McNeill Whistler. But he considered ancient Egyptian art the “greatest” in the world, acquiring more than a hundred small-scale Egyptian treasures as much as five millennia old. Freer’s rise to riches was a classic Gilded Age story. Born in Kingston, N.Y., in 1854, he made a fortune in railcar manufacturing, and by his mid-40s he could step back from business. I have tried lately to reason a little with myself; to think to what purpose to devote my few remaining years.”
☆ Gods and Kings in Mayan Art
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Peter Saenger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
In 250, as the Roman Empire began to fall apart in Europe, Mayan civilization was steadily gaining in power and sophistication. “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Nov. 21, draws on recent archaeological finds to assemble nearly 100 artworks from the region, nearly half of which are on display in the U.S. for the first time. In the 9th century the Mayan population plummeted, for reasons that are still unclear, and much of Mayan culture was destroyed by the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s. Even today, however, many Mayans live near their ancestors’ homes and follow some of the ancient traditions. As co-curator Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos writes in the show’s catalog, much of what is known about the ceramic censers on display comes from contemporary Mayans.
☆ The Music of Inuit Art
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Peter Saenger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
In the Inuit language, tusarnitut means “sounds that please the ear.” It’s a fitting title for a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts focused on the power of songs and music in Inuit art. “TUSARNITUT! Music Born of the Cold,” opening on Nov. 10, juxtaposes prints, drawings and installations by modern and contemporary artists with musical instruments and field recordings. Today, more than 180,000 Inuit live in a band of northern territory stretching from Eastern Siberia through Alaska, Canada and Greenland. In the traditionally male art of drum dancing, performers use drums of seal or caribou skin to celebrate important events like births, marriages or successful hunts, as well as to honor the dead.
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