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March 12, 2021
Given my general preference for art created before World War II, it would seem trundling along to view the new exhibition, “Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint” which opened last weekend at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia wouldn’t be on the cards. Yet this intriguing show not only shines a deserving spotlight on a truly intense, talented artist but also reveals a great deal about the unexpected art-historical influences on an artist whose work I’ve always disliked. Who says you can’t teach a middle-aged art critic new tricks?
Expressionist painter Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943) and Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), although only a decade apart in age, inhabited very different artistic worlds. Both left the lands of their birth Russia and The Netherlands, respectively to make their fortunes elsewhere.
While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture.
In 1979, the Grey Art Gallery at New York University hosted ‘American Painting: The Eighties’ – a landmark show that considered the possible avenues for painting in the decade ahead. Would the most significant painting of the 1980s take its cues from Abstract Expressionism, or post-abstract movements such as Pop or minimalism, or strike out in new directions entirely? This display at the Cincinnati Art Museum (12 March–11 July) recreates that exhibition, with work by all 41 of the artists in the original line-up – among them Sam Gilliam, Nancy Graves and Elizabeth Murray – and 35 paintings that were shown in 1979. Find out more from the Cincinnati Art Museum’s website.
Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life
Until 6 September at MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens
Structures for Life at MoMA PS1 represents the first ever New York museum show for
The first solo museum show in New York devoted to the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle features art and ephemera from the wildly prolific artist, who worked across an array of mediums but is perhaps best known for her large, ebullient sculptures of women. In addition to sculptures, paintings, lithographs and jewellery, the real treat of the exhibition are the maquettes, photographs, and process videos from some of Saint Phalle’s most ambitious public projects, including playgrounds in Belgium and Jerusalem and a fountain in Paris. Among them are videos, photographs, drawings, models and other ephemera documenting the construction of Tarot Garden, Saint Phalle’s magnum opus which takes the form of a massive architectural park and sculpture garden outside of Rome, which the artist work