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High Museum gives Ukranian American artist his first major museum show

George Voronovsky (Ukrainian-American, 1903–1982), ‘Untitled (Train),’ 1972–1982, paint on cardboard, 12 by 12in, courtesy of the Monroe family collection. © George Voronovsky. Photo courtesy of High Museum of Art.

ATLANTA — The High Museum of Art will present George Voronovsky: Memoryscapes from through August 13. It will be the first major museum presentation of work by the late Ukrainian American artist (1903-1982), who transformed his Miami Beach hotel room into a paradisiacal art environment filled with vibrant paintings and carved Styrofoam sculptures in the last decade of his life. The exhibition will feature 60 of Voronovsky’s mostly untitled and undated works, the majority of which depict his early memories of a beloved life in Ukraine that he ultimately felt compelled to leave behind.

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Five decades of photography celebrated at Portland Museum of Art

Melissa Shook, ‘May 6, 1973,’ from the series Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973, 1973. Gelatin silver print, 4 3/8 by 4/3/8in. Museum purchase with support from the Irving B. Ellis Fund, the Photography Fund, and the General Acquisitions Fund, 2023.14.1. Image courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

PORTLAND, Maine – The Portland Museum of Art is showing Drawn to the Light: 50 Years of Photography at Maine Media Workshops + College through September 10.

Marquetry artist earns showcase at Addison Gallery of American Art

Alison Elizabeth Taylor, ‘Laocoon,’ 2013. Marquetry hybrid: wood veneer, oil and shellac, 58 by 76in. Private collection. Courtesy Alison Elizabeth Taylor and James Cohan Gallery, NY

ANDOVER, Mass. – Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum of It is on view now through July 30 at the Addison Gallery of American Art . Known for her daring and inventive fusion of the centuries-old practice of marquetry, or wood inlay, with gritty and provocative subject matter, Alison Elizabeth Taylor tells tales that are unequivocally modern. This exhibition, the first museum survey devoted to Taylor, assembles dozens of works that chronicle her steady mastery of the now nearly forgotten techniques of this rarified medium and reveal her talent as an extraordinary storyteller and chronicler of 21st-century American culture. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring essays by exhibition curator Allison Kemmerer, New Yorker journalist Naomi Fry and novelist Lynne Tillman.

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Glorious art glass on show at Hillwood until January 2024

Chandelier, unknown manufacturer, McMillen, Inc. retailer. Ozerki, France, circa 1790. Glass, ormolu. Courtesy of Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens. Photo credit Edward Owen

WASHINGTON — The special exhibition “Glass: Art Beauty Design” on view at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens through January 14, 2024, will explore the fascinating world of glass and its use in both everyday life and as art. Transparent or opaque, fragile yet impervious, glass has inspired artists and designers, stimulated scientists and engineers, and captivated collectors with its beauty and practicality. Hillwood founder Marjorie Merriweather Post was no exception, and she amassed more than 1,600 pieces of glass, created in the 17th-20th centuries in Europe, Russia and the United States. This special exhibition will highlight this lesser-known aspect of Hillwood’s collection, featuring a range of styles and techniques while placing the historic creations in dialog with astounding contemporary artworks.

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Tate and Museum of the Home jointly acquire important Pre-Raphaelite painting

Rebecca Solomon, ‘A Young Teacher,’ 1861. Tate and the Museum of the Home. Purchased with funds provided by the Nicholas Themans Trust, Art Fund, the Abbott Fund and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Image courtesy of the Tate

LONDON – The Tate and the Museum of the Home have announced joint ownership of a landmark painting by acclaimed painter Rebecca Solomon. A Young Teacher (1861) has been acquired for the national collection and will be held equally by both institutions, enabling this significant Pre-Raphaelite work to be enjoyed by the public for generations to come.

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Boca Raton Museum of Art spotlights three artists in concurrent shows

Matthew Schreiber, ‘Bowie #7,’ 2016. Silver halide reflection hologram on glass. Image courtesy of the Boca Raton Museum of Art

From left to right: Matthew Schreiber, showcased in the exhibit Orders of Light; Sri Prabha, creator of the site-specific installation Resonator – Reanimator; and Sari Dienes, featured in Incidental Nature and shown here in a Polaroid portrait taken by Andy Warhol. Images courtesy of the Boca Raton Museum of Art — From left to right: Matthew Schreiber, showcased in the exhibit Orders of Light (image courtesy of the Boca Raton Museum of Art); Sri Prabha, creator of the site-specific installation Resonator – Reanimator (image courtesy of the Boca Raton Museum of Art); and Sari Dienes, featured in Incidental Nature and shown here in a Polaroid portrait taken by Andy Warhol (image courtesy of the Sari Dienes Foundation).

BOCA RATON, Fla. – “Spirit lives in everything” – This iconic quote by the late artist Sari Dienes serves as the entryway to the standout new exhibition by the Boca Raton Museum of Art of three breakthrough artists: Sari Dienes (1898-1992), Matthew Schreiber (b. 1967-), and Sri Prabha (b. 1969-). The work of each artist is showcased within its own gallery in this winning trifecta that encompasses the museum’s first floor. All three spaces are on view from June 14 through October 22 and are curated by Associate Curator of the Museum Kelli Bodle.

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1,440 Dutch Mannerist prints acquired by Art Institute of Chicago

Hendrick Goltzius, after Cornelis van Haarlem. ‘Phaeton, from The Four Disgracers,’ 1588. Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds.

CHICAGO — The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired 1,440 Dutch Mannerist prints from the Hearn Family Foundation and the Charles Hack collection. Ranging chronologically from the 1530s to about 1650, these prints chart the history of Dutch printmaking at the period of its greatest technical and artistic sophistication. The incomparable collection, assembled during three decades, reveals all the complexity and sophistication of Mannerist art, including a virtuosic command of printmaking, unusual perspectives and proportions, and eroticism coupled with a delight in allegory and humanism.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. co-curates Frederick Douglass show at Wadsworth

George Kendall Warren, ‘Frederick Douglass,’ 1879. Albumen print on Cabinet Card. The Amistad Center for Art & Culture. Courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

HARTFORD, Conn. — A new exhibition exploring the reflections of Frederick Douglass on image-making, race and citizenship has opened at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the Amistad Center for Art & Culture. Co-curated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, the exhibition brings together rare 19th-century daguerreotypes — on public view for the first time — with an immersive film work by contemporary artist Sir Isaac Julien that meditates on Douglass’ life and times. I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass is on view through September 24.

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Hopper, Rothko, Traylor watercolors on show at Harvard Art Museums

Edward Hopper (Nyack, N.Y. 1882–1967 New York, N.Y.) ‘Highland Light,’ 1930. Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, 42.3 by 65.3cm (16 5/8 by 25 11/16in.) Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund, 1930.462 Image: Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – This summer, the Harvard Art Museums present more than 100 years of artistry through the medium of watercolor. American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light showcases more than 100 watercolors by more than 50 well-known and historically underrepresented artists selected from the museums’ deep and diverse holdings — a rare opportunity because of the light-sensitive nature of these works. From Winslow Homer to Richard Foster Yarde, from stunning natural landscapes to delicate still lifes and bold abstractions, there is something for everyone. The exhibition is on display through August 13 in the three adjacent University Galleries located on Level 3 of the Harvard Art Museums.

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Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere, all at once

Kehinde Wiley, ‘Portrait of Anet Arias,’ 2023. Oil on linen painting: 48 by 36in, framed, 56 1/2 by 44 5/8 by 3 1⁄2in. Photo: Max Yawney © Kehinde Wiley Courtesy: Sean Kelly

NEW YORK (AP) – Kehinde Wiley was already well into his influential art career when his portrait of Barack Obama – arms crossed, perched on a chair amid brilliant foliage – was unveiled in 2018. But there’s no doubt it changed the artist’s life.

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