Openings and Closings: May 26 to June 1 Elizabeth Lanza
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Getty Center closed its doors last year. After a long wait, visitors are finally welcome back to a host of brand-new exhibitions that have been worth the wait. One is
. A plump French bergère by the great eighteenth-century furniture maker Georges Jacob is the focus of the exhibition. The seat is a great example of the neoclassical era’s attention to the combination of comfort and style. The meticulously crafted chair has managed to survive almost unaltered for 250 years. The Getty Center reopened on May 25, and visitors must reserve a ticket here.
Hands and Earth exhibition celebrates Japanese ceramics
SHINGŪ Sayaka (Japanese, b. 1979), Erosion, 2014. Colored stoneware, 7 13/16 × 16 1/2 × 14 5/16 inches. Collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz, JC2017.022.
ATHENS, GA
.- How much do you think about the bowls, cups and vases that you use every day? A new exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia examines both functional and artistic perspectives on Japanese ceramics. Hands and Earth: Perspectives on Japanese Contemporary Ceramics is on display from May 22 to August 15, 2021. This exhibition, drawn from the collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz, has also traveled to the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, the Crow Museum of Asian Art at the University of Texas in Dallas and the Katonah Museum of Art in New York. It focuses on some of Japans most prominent ceramicists from the 20th and 21st centuries and is sponsored by the Jeffrey Horvitz Foundation.
University of Georgia undergraduate helps organize museum exhibition
George Thompson Hobbs (American, 1846 1929), Still Life with Pomegranates and Chippendale Bowl, 1908. Oil on canvas. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Extended loan from the Collection of Barbara Guillaume. GMOA 2019.19E.
ATHENS, GA
.- Meghan Gerig, who is graduating from the University of Georgia this May with her bachelors degree in art history, served as co-curator of the exhibition Echoes from Abroad: American Art from the Collection of Barbara Guillaume, on display at the Georgia Museum of Art at UGA from May 22 to August 15. The exhibition pulls from the collection of Georgia Museum of Art board member and art collector Barbara Guillaume, spanning the period from 1878 to 1940 and including many different artists with varying styles, techniques, genres and stories, but similar origins, particularly an exposure to international artistic movements and a growing rejection of academic s