Art listings.September Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art From the Broad Collections. Explore major pieces by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Johns, Koons, and 13 other pop artists from America and Germany before this exhibit heads to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain. (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. , through October 20) NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City Sex: How New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Transformed Sex in America. It may not be art, but visitors to this new museum will certainly get an eyeful eye·ful n. 1. A complete view. 2. One that is pleasing to the sight, especially an attractive person. 3. . Covering topics as diverse as Stonewall and lesbian football teams, NYC Sex spans the 19th and 20th centuries and spends generous amounts of time describing how the gay and lesbian community helped fashion sex as we know it and think about it today. (New York City, Museum of Sex, September 23-July 3, 2003) October Archigram: Experimental Architecture 1961-1974. During the swinging '60s, the architectural collective Archigram found inspiration in the likes of Barbarella and The Avengers. Archigram's planned utopias, which fused technology and sensuous pleasure, never got off the ground (literally), but models, drawings, and sketches from the collective's work are on display. Shag carpeting not included. (Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, October 19-January 19, 2003) Gay and Lesbian Artists Alliance Open Studio 2002. For the 11th year in a row, San Francisco's GLAA GLAA Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (Washington, DC) GLAA Gay/Lesbian Alcoholics Anonymous joins Artspan's annual citywide open studios, this time featuring work by 19 of its male artists. (October 12-13) Projects 77: Billboards by Sarah Morris, Julian Opie, and Lisa Ruyter. New Yorkers and tourists wandering through Manhattan and Long Island City this fall will have the chance to see 15 newly commissioned billboards, each riffing on the theme of the urban landscape. (Queens, N.Y., Museum of Modern Art, October 7-December 1) Sargent's Seven Sisters. Already renowned for its collection of murals and portraits by John Singer Sargent, Boston's MFA See multifactor authentication. is offering a special display of the gay painter's work. The Wyndam Sisters--one of his most important portraits--will be reunited with other of his works for the first time. (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, October 5-January 5, 2003) November The Medici Medici, Italian family Medici (mĕ`dĭchē, Ital. mā`dēchē), Italian family that directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th cent. until 1737. , Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence. With 200 works that are only rarely loaned outside Florence, Italy, this exhibit features sculptural masterpieces from the famed Medici villas and marks only the second time a major Michelangelo sculpture--the Apollo-David--has been brought to the States. (Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by , November 9-February 2, 2003) |
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