Artwork from 20 of My Museum Books
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SIKH ART FROM THE KAPANY COLLECTION
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2017; Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA, 2019
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2017; Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA, 2019
Below, left to right:
Row 1: Guru Nanak with Bhai Laloo and Malik Bhago, Devender Singh, 2015
The Golden Saint, Arpana Caur, 2001
Row 2: [The Golden Temple at Amritsar] Kar-Seva View from Langar Hall, Sukhpreet Singh, 2006
Raja of Putteealla, Emily Eden, 1844
Row 3: Maharajah Duleep Singh, reproduction by Sukhpreet Singh, 2005; Franz Winterhalter, Punjab
Guru Nanak, Arpana Caur, 2004
Row 4: Bagh phulkari with central lozenge, Eastern Punjab, ca. 1900
Helmet of iron overlaid with gold, Punjab, ca. 1820–1840
Bante (game like marbles), Sukhpreet Singh, 2006
Row 1: Guru Nanak with Bhai Laloo and Malik Bhago, Devender Singh, 2015
The Golden Saint, Arpana Caur, 2001
Row 2: [The Golden Temple at Amritsar] Kar-Seva View from Langar Hall, Sukhpreet Singh, 2006
Raja of Putteealla, Emily Eden, 1844
Row 3: Maharajah Duleep Singh, reproduction by Sukhpreet Singh, 2005; Franz Winterhalter, Punjab
Guru Nanak, Arpana Caur, 2004
Row 4: Bagh phulkari with central lozenge, Eastern Punjab, ca. 1900
Helmet of iron overlaid with gold, Punjab, ca. 1820–1840
Bante (game like marbles), Sukhpreet Singh, 2006
REPENTANT MONK: CHEN HONGSHOU (1599-1652)
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2017
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2017
THE MATTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE AMERICAS
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 2018
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 2018
RADICAL BODIES
Exhibit and catalog about groundbreaking dancers/choreographers
in New York and the Bay Area (1955-1972), AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2017
Exhibit and catalog about groundbreaking dancers/choreographers
in New York and the Bay Area (1955-1972), AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 2017
EMPRESSES OF CHINA'S FORBIDDEN CITY: 1644-1912
Palace Museum, Beijing, China
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Smithsonian's Freer | Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC, 2018-2019
Palace Museum, Beijing, China
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Smithsonian's Freer | Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC, 2018-2019
CONTACT WARHOL: PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT END
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, September 2018-January 2019
Top row, right: Liza Minnelli - Middle left: Truman Capote - Bottom right: Andy Warhol
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, September 2018-January 2019
Top row, right: Liza Minnelli - Middle left: Truman Capote - Bottom right: Andy Warhol
HANS HOFMANN: THE NATURE OF ABSTRACTION
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, February–July 2019
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, February–July 2019
Top left: Table with Teakettle, Green Vase and Red Flowers (1936) - Top right: Untitled (1945)
Bottom left: Auxerre (1960) - Bottom right: Blue Rhythm (1950)
Bottom left: Auxerre (1960) - Bottom right: Blue Rhythm (1950)
IN THE VANGUARD: HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS, 1950-69
Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, May-September 2019
Top left: Wood panels, Stan VanDerBeek (1954) - Top right: Fiber exhibition (1965)
Bottom left: Robert Arneson, Typewriter #2 (1967)
Bottom right: Blown glass by Richard Marquis and Marvin Lipofsky (both 1967)
WHEN I REMEMBER I SEE RED
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, October 20, 2019–January 26, 2020
Santa Fe Museum, August 20, 2020–January 1, 2021
Autry Museum of the West, Los Angeles, September 19, 2021–February 27, 2022
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, October 20, 2019–January 26, 2020
Santa Fe Museum, August 20, 2020–January 1, 2021
Autry Museum of the West, Los Angeles, September 19, 2021–February 27, 2022
Top, from left: Lyn Risling, Ifeektávaan (Truth Bearer), 2012; Map of California tribes (more than
300 ones); Fritz Scholder, Bicentennial Indian, 1975, color lithograph
Bottom, from left: Frank Day, Cycle of Life, 1985, oil on board;
Brian D. Tripp, I Want to Gripe On-Going Occupation of Indian Country It Makes Me Angry,
2013, mixed media; Delbert Castro, Maidu Walk, 1980, acrylic
300 ones); Fritz Scholder, Bicentennial Indian, 1975, color lithograph
Bottom, from left: Frank Day, Cycle of Life, 1985, oil on board;
Brian D. Tripp, I Want to Gripe On-Going Occupation of Indian Country It Makes Me Angry,
2013, mixed media; Delbert Castro, Maidu Walk, 1980, acrylic
HINGES: SAKAKI HYAKUSEN AND THE BIRTH OF NANGA PAINTING
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
October 2, 2019—February 2, 2020
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
October 2, 2019—February 2, 2020
JACOB LAWRENCE: THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA - January-April 2020
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - June-September 2020
Birmingham (Alabama) Museum of Art - October 2020-January 2021
Seattle Art Museum, WA - February-May 2021
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC - June-September 2021
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA - January-April 2020
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - June-September 2020
Birmingham (Alabama) Museum of Art - October 2020-January 2021
Seattle Art Museum, WA - February-May 2021
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC - June-September 2021
ABOVE: showing 4 of 30 extant panels (60 painted, half lost -- one was recently located in a New York City apartment, having been purchased for $100 in 1960 at a Christmas art auction and pretty much ignored thereafter; other panels have sold for more than $413,000):
Top left: "RED COATS" -- "again the rebels rushed furiously on our men" -- a Hessian soldier / Top right: "DYING HORSE" / Bottom left: General Washington crossing the Delaware, 27 Dec. 1776 ("the night was excessively severe ... which the men bore without the least murmur" / Bottom right: "REBEL OR LOYALIST?" An informer's coded message written in a numerical substitution system used by the traitor Benedict Arnold during the Revolution War (depicting an informer whispering in the ear of his contact)
Jacob Lawrence, in his studio,
New York (1958)
Artwork from the STUART COLLECTION shown at UC San Diego
(ongoing display of 20 site-specific artworks installed around the 1,200-acre campus)
(ongoing display of 20 site-specific artworks installed around the 1,200-acre campus)
Top row: FALLEN STAR (fully furnished "tilted" house, with garden), by Do Ho Suh, 2012
Middle row: SNAKE PATH, by Alexis Smith, 1991; FALLEN STAR viewed from campus level
Bottom row: VICES AND VIRTUES (words rotate), by Bruce Nauman, 1988; BEAR, by Tim Hawkinson, 2005
Middle row: SNAKE PATH, by Alexis Smith, 1991; FALLEN STAR viewed from campus level
Bottom row: VICES AND VIRTUES (words rotate), by Bruce Nauman, 1988; BEAR, by Tim Hawkinson, 2005
ACTING OUT: CABINET CARDS AND THE MAKING OF MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, June 27–September 20, 2020
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 1, 2020–April 18, 2021
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, June 27–September 20, 2020
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 1, 2020–April 18, 2021
Above: mostly from the 1880s and '90s
Top row, L-R: Oscar Wilde (1882, during U.S. tour), Napoleon Sarony (photographer, entrepreneur,
and promoter of cabinet cards, known as "Portraitist to the Stars"), boy with pelican (Kansas)
Middle row, L-R: Helena Luv (New York), rare velvet framed card, telegraph worker (Iowa)
Bottom row, L-R: "Six Friends" (Minnesota); boxers George Moore and Fred Howe (Detroit), Man with bike
Top row, L-R: Oscar Wilde (1882, during U.S. tour), Napoleon Sarony (photographer, entrepreneur,
and promoter of cabinet cards, known as "Portraitist to the Stars"), boy with pelican (Kansas)
Middle row, L-R: Helena Luv (New York), rare velvet framed card, telegraph worker (Iowa)
Bottom row, L-R: "Six Friends" (Minnesota); boxers George Moore and Fred Howe (Detroit), Man with bike
MARIE CUTTOLI: THE MODERN THREAD FROM MIRÓ TO MAN RAY
(tapestries and other textiles, woven after paintings)
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, February 23-August 23, 2020
(tapestries and other textiles, woven after paintings)
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, February 23-August 23, 2020
Top row, L-R: Rouault’s Little Family (left) with Picasso’s Secrets (right) and Matisse’s painting Le bonheur de vivre (in stairwell); Calder's Triangles Blanc (woven 1970); Derain's The Stag Hunt (woven 1938)
Bottom row, L-R: 10 dining chairs upholstered with Dufy’s tapestry Monuments of Paris (woven in Aubusson,
ca. 1936); Dufy's Amphitrite (cotton, silk, linen, and wool); Miró's Personnages avec étoile (1933)
Bottom row, L-R: 10 dining chairs upholstered with Dufy’s tapestry Monuments of Paris (woven in Aubusson,
ca. 1936); Dufy's Amphitrite (cotton, silk, linen, and wool); Miró's Personnages avec étoile (1933)
CARLOS VILLA: WORLDS IN COLLISION
Co-organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (summer 2022)
and San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) (June 17–September 26, 2022)
Co-organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (summer 2022)
and San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) (June 17–September 26, 2022)
Clockwise from top left:
Second Coat, 1977. Outer shell: paint on canvas and feathers; interior: acrylic on
taffeta, feathers, hair, sperm, and fingernails
Self-Portrait (Tattoo Drawing), 1971. Itek photograph with ink
My Father Walking Up Kearny Street for the First Time, 1995. Feathers, panama hat, engraved bronze plate, Plexiglas with vinyl lettering, black gesso, on framed door
Untitled (with Feathers and Ink) (Tatu Series), 1971. Ink and feathers on Itek photograph
Second Coat, 1977. Outer shell: paint on canvas and feathers; interior: acrylic on
taffeta, feathers, hair, sperm, and fingernails
Self-Portrait (Tattoo Drawing), 1971. Itek photograph with ink
My Father Walking Up Kearny Street for the First Time, 1995. Feathers, panama hat, engraved bronze plate, Plexiglas with vinyl lettering, black gesso, on framed door
Untitled (with Feathers and Ink) (Tatu Series), 1971. Ink and feathers on Itek photograph
BEVERLY McIVER: FULL CIRCLE
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona - Feb.-Sept. 2022
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC - Dec.-March 2023
The Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC - April-Aug. 2023
"Molly and Her Mammy" (1999) "Clown Portrait" (2018)
PHOENIX KINGDOMS
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco - June 17-September 18, 2022
BEYOND BOLLYWOOD
Cincinnati Art Museum - November 2022 - February 2023
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco - March 31 - July 10, 2023
Row 1, L-R: Shiva, lord of the dance, 1125-1175, Tamil Nadu; Barack Obama, Newsweek cover, Nov. 22, 2010;
Rarung, a demonic figure, 1800-1900, Bali; Buddhist deity Kuru Kulla, 1700-1800, China
Row 2, L-R: Krishna dancer, 1675-1700, Rajasthan; Nautch dancer with musicians, late 1880s;
Barong dance, Bali, 1960 (photo by Ben Shahn)
Row 3: Video, "I Saw a God Dance," 2012 -- Row 4: Threshold, with lions and dancers, 950-1000, Central India
Rarung, a demonic figure, 1800-1900, Bali; Buddhist deity Kuru Kulla, 1700-1800, China
Row 2, L-R: Krishna dancer, 1675-1700, Rajasthan; Nautch dancer with musicians, late 1880s;
Barong dance, Bali, 1960 (photo by Ben Shahn)
Row 3: Video, "I Saw a God Dance," 2012 -- Row 4: Threshold, with lions and dancers, 950-1000, Central India
VIEWS OF CRYSTAL BRIDGES
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, Arkansas
Ongoing exhibits
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, Arkansas
Ongoing exhibits