MAKE A DAY OF IT! Amon Carter Museum of American Art cartermuseum.org Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano pairs the sparkling splendor of glass goblets and marvelous mosaics with paintings and prints by the leading 19th-century American artists. The exhibition brings to life the Venetian glass revival between 1860 and 1915 and the artistic experimentation the city inspired for visiting artists. June 26– September 11, 2022 Thomas Moran, A View of Venice (detail), 1891, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, 1968.120.1
Kimbell Art Museum kimbellart.org Witness women in dramatic acts of courageous defiance and female empowerment as depicted by the celebrated Italian Baroque painter Artemesia Gentileschi and acclaimed American contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley. Realized four hundred years apart, the two paintings of the same subject, Judith beheading Holofernes, invite discussion about gender, race, violence, oppression, and social power. Admission is free. July 19–October 9, 2022 Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593–Naples, ca. 1653), Judith and Holofernes, c. 1612–17, oil on canvas. 159 x 126 cm. Inv. Q 378. Napoli, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte. Kehinde Wiley (American, born 1977), Judith and Holofernes, 2012, oil on linen. Purchased with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes in honor of Dr. Emily Farnham, by exchange, and from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), 2012. © Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art and Sean Kelly, New York
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth themodern.org Women Painting Women features 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This presentation, international in scope, includes evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. All place women—their bodies, gestures, and individuality—at the forefront, conceiving new ways to activate and elaborate on the portrayal of women. On view through September 25 Hope Gangloff, Queen Jane Approximately, 2011. Acrylic on canvas. 66 × 108 inches. Collection of Alturas Foundation, San Antonio, Texas. © Hope Gangloff. Image courtesy of the Artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
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