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March 6th, 2021 in Art and Featured. Closed
Starting March 25, Julie Mehretu’s paintings, drawings and prints will be on view in a midcareer retrospective at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, before moving to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. (PHOTO: JULIE MEHRETU)
Wall Street Journal
The abstract painter uses architectural drawings and photographs to create works on a grand scale
The artist Julie Mehretu, 51, likes to work on a grand scale. A silent short film by the British artist Tacita Dean shows Ms. Mehretu at work on her monumental painting “Mural” at the New York headquarters of Goldman Sachs in 2009, high up on a cherry picker as she grapples with a canvas 80 feet long and 23 feet high. “The scale of the Goldman Sachs painting was the reason why I decided to take that challenge on,” Ms Mehretu says. “It was scary, but exhilarating and wonderful to do.”
An exhibit of European and Asian porcelain from 1500 to 1900 at the Frick Collection s new museum location on Madison Avenue in New York. Photo: Bloomberg
For the last 100 years, stepping into the exquisitely preserved rooms of the Frick Collection’s mansion on New York’s Fifth Avenue was like entering a gilded time capsule.
It was both the draw of the museum, which is largely unchanged since it opened in 1935, and a flaw: Taken all at once, many of the spectacular bronzes, delicate Sèvres porcelain, and even masterpieces by Goya and Rembrandt drifted uncomfortably close to decoration, the collection’s many superlative parts subsumed into a larger, sumptuous whole.
Touring the Frick Madison, New York s newest cultural landmark
James Tarmy, Bloomberg
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1of9Giovanni Bellini s St Francis in the Desert c. 1476-78 at the Frick Collection s new museum location on Madison Avenue in New York on March 2, 2021.Bloomberg photo by Nina Westervelt.Show MoreShow Less
2of9Three busts from the 1470s.Bloomberg photo by Nina Westervelt.Show MoreShow Less
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4of9Eighteenth-century French busts on either side of the so-called Clodion clock at the entrance to the fourth-floor galleries at the Frick Collection s new museum location on Madison Avenue in New York.Bloomberg photo by Nina Westervelt.Show MoreShow Less