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Frans Hals Museum From 11 November Seldom have more humorous paintings been made than in the Dutch Golden Age. Prosperity and a new buying public encouraged painters to think up an enormous variety of visual jokes. Naughty children, stupid peasants, foolish dandies and drunkards, quack doctors, pimps and procuresses, lazy serving maids and lusty ladies–they appear in large numbers in Golden Age masterpieces. The humour implicit in the works would have been evident to contemporary viewers.  Frans Hals is often called ‘the master of the laugh’. More than any other painter in the Golden Age, he was able to bring a vitality to his portraits that made it appear as if his models could just step out of the past into the present. Hals was one of the few painters in the seventeenth century who dared portray his figures – often common folk – with a hearty laugh and bared teeth. Merriment and jokes are prominent features in his genre paintings; ar

Frans Hals Museum and De Hallen Haarlem 23 September 2017 to7 January2018 This unique exhibition featuring old and new art showcases the magnificent food still lifes of the Golden Age. It offers an alternative reading of these works as documents from an eventful history. What does the foodwe see tell us about the Netherlands’colonial and trade relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? As quinoa and the avocado have changed European cooking over the last few decades, so, from the fifteenth century onwards,‘new’ foodstuffs like coffee, sugar and tomatoes transformed our ancestors’ eating habits.  From the end of that century European imperialism changed the map of the world and created a global trading network.The start of an emotionally charged exchange between peoples and cultures, it sawt he import of new agricultural produce and foodstuffs from Africa, America, East and Southeast Asia and India.Before this,Europeans had no knowledge of tea, sugar, coffee, tomatoes,

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale will present Frank Stella: Experiment and Change , an exhibition that spans the artist’s 60-year career from the late 1950’s to the present.  The exhibition, composed of approximately 300 paintings, relief sculpture and drawings will offer insight into his trajectory from minimalism (e.g. the geometry of the black paintings) to maximalism (eg. the spatially complex constructionist and large sculptures of the Moby Dick series.) Curated by Bonnie Clearwater , Director and Chief Curator, Experiment and Change leads the museum’s 60th anniversary celebration presented by AutoNation, and will be on view from November 12, 2017 to July 8, 2018.   Frank Stella, Paradoxe sur le comediene, 1974, Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Private Collection, NY © 2017 Frank Stella,/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo Credit: Jason Wyche The exhibition juxtaposes works from various periods of Stella’s car

“ Detroit Institute of Arts Oct. 22, 2017“ to March 4, 2018 Monet: Framing Life” is an intimate exhibition focusing on an important painting in the DIA collection—: Claude Monet'’s “Rounded Flower Bed (Corbeille de fleurs)” from 1876, formerly known as “Gladioli” and recently retitled based on new research. Monet created this work while living in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil between late 1871 and early 1878, an especially productive time. It was there that he met and worked beside fellow avant-garde painters that formed the group now known as the Impressionists. This exhibition brings the DIA’s painting together with 10 other Argenteuil paintings by Monet and fellow impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir—including seven major loans from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In doing so, the exhibition presents a more comprehensive story about the creation of “Rounded Flower Bed (Corbeille de fleurs)” and how it fits into Monet’s body of work, as well as the history of Impr

The Metropolitan Museum of Art August 21–December 10, 2017 More than three dozen rarely seen treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of late 19th-century American works on paper are featured in the exhibition Gilded Age Drawings at The Met . Created primarily during the 1870s to ’90s—America’s so-called Gilded Age—shortly after the founding of the Museum, many of these innovative drawings in watercolor, pastel, and charcoal were acquired during the artists’ lifetimes and represent the beginnings of The Met’s collecting of American examples of this art form. On view will be iconic works by some of the leading American artists of the period, including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, John La Farge, and John Singer Sargent, along with striking examples by artists who are less well-known today. A highlight of the exhibition will be three works by Cecilia Beaux, La Farge, and Sargent that are recent promised gifts to The Met. Ar

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha February 3 – May 6, 2018 Ed Ruscha, Clarence Jones, 2001, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 124 inches, Phillip G. Schrager Collection The first major exhibition featuring Ed Ruscha in his home state of Nebraska, Word/Play brings together prints, photographs, and artist books dating from the 1960s through 2014, complemented by a selection of major paintings. An important early figure in Conceptual Art, Ruscha deftly combines imagery and text. At turns poignant, provocative, and confounding, Ruscha’s use of the written word is a signature element of his work. Born in Omaha in 1937, Ruscha lived in the city for several years before his family moved to Oklahoma City. In 1956, Ruscha relocated to Los Angeles to study commercial art at the Chouinard Art Institute and quickly became a fixture in the energized West Coast art scene. Rarely seen photographs featured in Word/Play reveal the urban landscapes that inspired many of Ruscha’s most famous prints and paintin

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art, Moscow 09.06.2017 – 20.08.2017 Main Building The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts proudly presents a large-scale project of exceptional significance – “Renaissance Venice. Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese. From Italian and Russian collections”, exhibiting 25 outstanding works by three of the greatest painters. These works will be brought to Moscow for the first time, and some of them have never been displayed outside of Italy. During the Renaissance, Venice experienced the golden age of art and, first and foremost, painting. In the 16th century, a triad of great masters of the brush – Titian Vecellio (c. 1490–1576), Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594) and Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) – created their famous paintings in this city. These artists played a defining role in the formation of the European artistic culture and rendered an important influence on the development of art over the next centuries. This exhibition provides a unique opportunity