Romare Bearden.NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Everybody knows Romare Bearden's collages, but even those who delight in his trademark crisp edges, bang-on color, and iconographic witticisms might not be familiar with the man's sculpture, album-cover designs, stage sets, and costumes. It's fitting, then, that the National Gallery should put together the most encyclopedic en·cy·clo·pe·dic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia. 2. Embracing many subjects; comprehensive: "an ignorance almost as encyclopedic as his erudition" exhibition of his work ever. Oh yes, Bearden is an African-American artist; to mention that is both essential (his art constitutes one of the great chronicles of African-American life) and irrelevant (artistically the competition runs to Giotto, Cezanne, and Japanese prints). Sept. 14-Jan. 4; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a major modern art museum and San Francisco landmark. It opened in 1935 under founding director Dr. Grace Morley (Grace L. , Feb. 7, 2004-May 16, 2004; Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. History , June 20, 2004-Sept. 12, 2004; Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). , New York, Oct. 14, 2004-Jan 9, 2005; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Jan. 29, 2005-Apr. 24, 2005. |
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