Amazing art shows across N.A.
Check out Van Gogh in Ottawa, Matisse in Vancouver, or maybe Annie Leibovitz in D.C.
Fodors.com has compiled a list of great art exhibits across North America for this year, ranging from Chicago to Vancouver. It’s a perfect guide for art lovers who love travel.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: PILGRIMAGE
Annie Leibovitz is known for taking glamour portraits of celebrities for magazines. In Pilgrimage, however, her photography exhibit on now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C., Liebovitz shares more than 70 photographs of subjects that shaped her view on cultural inheritance, including the homes of Emily Dickinson, Georgia O’keeffe and Elvis Presley, as well as Niagara Falls and Old Faithful.
In fact, there are no people featured anywhere in this exhibition. The show opened Jan. 20 and runs through May 20 at Washington, D.C.’S Smithsonian American Art Museum.
VAN GOGH UP CLOSE
Focusing on the troubled artist’s fascination and powerful connection to nature through his still lifes and landscapes from his tumultuous final years, Van Gogh Up Close will display around 40 masterpieces, including Iris, Sunflowers, and Sheaves of Wheat. The show runs at the National Gallery of Canada May 25 to Sept. 3.
THE STEINS COLLECT: MATISSE, PICASSO, AND THE PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE
Gertrude Stein and her siblings amassed a vast art collection, befriended artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, and gained a reputation as being among the 20th century’s most important patrons of modern art.
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will mount The Steins Collect and showcase some 200 works acquired from Picasso and Matisse, as well as Paul Cézanne, Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas. The show runs Feb. 28 to June 3, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. ROBERT ADAMS: THE PLACE WE LIVE, A RETROSPECTIVE SELECTION Robert Adams’ images have helped visually depict the American West’s ever-changing landscape over the last four decades. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art retrospective, The Place We Live, is edited and sequenced by Adams himself. The show runs March 11 to June 3 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
KEITH HARING: 1978-1982
With Keith Haring: 1978-1982, New York’s Brooklyn Museum examines the artist’s early career through 155 works on paper, seven experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects including sketchbooks, journals, and subway drawings. The show runs March 16 to July 8, 2012 at New York’s Brooklyn Museum.
THE FASHION WORLD OF JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: FROM THE SIDEWALK TO THE CATWALK
From his unconventional runway shows with barnyard animals, to his famous cone bra worn by Madonna on her Blond Ambition tour, this “enfant terrible” has left a unique, indelible, and highly influential mark in his industry, redefining fashion and turning it into an art form.
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk will feature approximately 140 ensembles spanning over 35 years of the eclectic designer’s career. The show runs March 24 to Aug. 19 at San Francisco’s de Young Museum. Plus, you can party with the designer himself at La Grande Fete, the exhibition’s opening event, on Friday, March 23 (tickets cost $300; $250 for museum members). COLLECTING MATISSE AND MODERN MASTERS: THE CONE SISTERS OF BALTIMORE The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and works on paper by such artists as Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh. In addition to masterworks of French art, the exhibition will include textiles, decorative arts, arts of Asia and Africa, photographs, and archival materials. The show runs June 2 to Sept. 23 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. ROY LICHTENSTEIN: ARETROSPECTIVE The Art Institute of Chicago is gearing up for its major Roy Lichetenstein: A Retrospective exhibit in May. Considered one of the world’s most renowned Pop artists, Lichtenstein gets the full treatment in what will be the first comprehensive exhibition since his death in 1997. The show runs May 16 to Sept. 3 at the Art Institute of Chicago, then goes to Washington D.C. and London.