Hannah Gadsby takes aim at Picasso in ‘It’s Pablo-matic’ at Brooklyn Museum

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), ‘The Crying Woman,’ October 1937. Oil on canvas, 21.7 by 18.2in. (55.3 by 46.3cm). Musee national Picasso/Paris/France, MP165. © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (Photo: Adrien Didierjean, © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York)
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), ‘The Crying Woman,’ October 1937. Oil on canvas, 21.7 by 18.2in. (55.3 by 46.3cm). Musee national Picasso/Paris/France, MP165. © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (Photo: Adrien Didierjean, © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York)
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), ‘The Crying Woman,’ October 1937. Oil on canvas, 21.7 by 18.2in. (55.3 by 46.3cm). Musee national Picasso/Paris/France, MP165. © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (Photo: Adrien Didierjean, © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York)

NEW YORK – Fifty years after his death, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) remains an artistic and cultural icon whose status as the preeminent modern artist has gone largely unquestioned. The exhibition It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby grapples with Picasso’s art and legacy through intersecting, critical feminist methodologies that have emerged since 1973 and continue to reshape art history today. Part of the global Picasso Celebration 1973–2023, the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition is organized by senior curators Lisa Small and Catherine Morris with Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby, whose groundbreaking 2018 comedy special Nanette pointedly challenged how public debate around marginalized communities is conducted, including art institutions’ frequent condoning of art history’s inherent misogyny. It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby opens on June 2 and closes on September 24.

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Brooklyn Museum lauds Virgil Abloh’s splendid, too-short career

Virgil Abloh (Rockford, Illinois, 1980–2021, Chicago, Illinois). ‘dollar a gallon’ II, 2019. Mixed media, 11ft 2 1⁄2in by 68.75in by 19.5in (341.63 by 174.63 by 49.53cm). Courtesy of Gymnastics Art Institute & Virgil Abloh Securities. Photo: © Gymnastics Art Institute
Virgil Abloh (1980–2021). ‘dollar a gallon’ II, 2019. Mixed media, 11ft 2 1⁄2in by 68.75in by 19.5in (341.63 by 174.63 by 49.53cm). Courtesy of Gymnastics Art Institute & Virgil Abloh Securities. Photo: © Gymnastics Art Institute

NEW YORK – The Brooklyn Museum presents Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech,” a sweeping exhibition tracing two decades of the late artist and designer’s visionary work, currently on view and running through January 29, 2023. “Figures of Speech” is the first museum exhibition devoted to Abloh and was originally developed by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The Brooklyn Museum presentation features important objects from his multifaceted career, including collaborations with artist Takashi Murakami, musician Kanye West and architect Rem Koolhaas; material from his fashion label Off-White; and designs from Louis Vuitton, where he served as the first Black menswear artistic director until his death in November 2021.

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Brooklyn Museum marks European art reinstallation with ‘Monet to Morisot’

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). ‘The Doge’s Palace,’ 1908. Oil on canvas, 32in by 39 in. (81.3cm by 99.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Gift of A. Augustus Healy, 20.634. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). ‘The Doge’s Palace,’ 1908. Oil on canvas, 32in by 39 in. (81.3cm by 99.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Gift of A. Augustus Healy, 20.634. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). ‘The Doge’s Palace,’ 1908. Oil on canvas, 32in by 39 in. (81.3cm by 99.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Gift of A. Augustus Healy, 20.634. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Opening February 4, 2022, Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art, the new thematic reinstallation of the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned holdings of 19th- and 20th-century European art, features nearly 90 important paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, many of which have not been on view together in Brooklyn since 2016. The exhibition continues through May 21, 2023.

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Obama portraits now on view in Brooklyn, with three more stops planned

Left: Kehinde Wiley, 'Barack Obama,'  a 2018 oil on canvas from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, © 2018 Kehinde Wiley | Right: Amy Sherald, detail of 'Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama' a 2018 oil on linen from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the generous donors who made these commissions possible and proudly recognizes them at npg.si.edu/obamaportraitstour. Support for the national tour has been generously provided by Bank of America.
Left: Kehinde Wiley, ‘Barack Obama,’  a 2018 oil-on-canvas from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, © 2018 Kehinde Wiley | Right: Amy Sherald, detail of ‘Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama’ a 2018 oil-on-linen from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

WASHINGTON – From the moment of their unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in February 2018, the museum’s official portraits of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have become iconic. Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrait of the former First Lady have inspired unprecedented responses from the public.

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Last call for KAWS exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum

KAWS (American, born 1974). WHAT PARTY, 2020. Bronze, paint, 90 × 43 5/16 × 35 3/8 in. (228.6 × 110 × 89.9 cm). © KAWS. (Photo: Michael Biondo)
KAWS (American, born 1974). WHAT PARTY, 2020. Bronze, paint, 90 × 43 5/16 × 35 3/8 in. (228.6 × 110 × 89.9 cm). © KAWS. (Photo: Michael Biondo)
KAWS (American, born 1974). WHAT PARTY, 2020. Bronze, paint, 90 × 43 5/16 × 35 3/8 in. (228.6 × 110 × 89.9 cm). © KAWS. (Photo: Michael Biondo)

BROOKLYN – KAWS: WHAT PARTY closes at the Brooklyn Museum on September 5. The sweeping survey of KAWS’s career traces the Brooklyn-based artist’s rise from graffiti artist to a dominating force in the contemporary art world.

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