Jean Fautrier. (Preview).HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART Jean Fautrier's art has always been a matter of taste, and his often seemed pretty bad, down to the snakeskin snake·skin n. The skin of a snake, especially when prepared as leather. shoes he famously wore to the opening of his war-inspired "Hostage" series. Some critics argue that the later paintings' flirtation with kitsch is deliberate. Now we'll have a chance to judge for ourselves with this long-overdue first US retrospective. Organized by Haggerty Museum director Curtis L. Carter and Karen Butler of Columbia University, the exhibition surveys Fautrier's forty-year career and is accompanied by a catalogue with contributions by the curators, along with Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, and Rachel Perry. Sept. 19-Dec. 29; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach
Ira David Wallach (June 3, 1909-January 6, 2007) was an American businessman and philanthropist. Art Gallery, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Jan. 28-Mar. 29; Fogg Art Museum The Fogg Art Museum is the oldest of Harvard University's art museums. It covers the history of western art from the Middle Ages to the present. It opened to the public in 1895 and was originally housed in an Italian Renaissance style building designed by Richard Morris Hunt , Cambridge, MA, Apr. 26-July 20. |
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