William Capen Jr. (1801-1863), Painters, Glaziers, and Brush Makers Banner, Portland, 1841. Oil on linen, 35 x 40 in. Collections of Maine Historical Society, purchased by a coalition of Maine museums.
Portland Museum of Art
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A collaboration between the Portland Museum of Art and the Maine Humanities Council, Stories of Maine: An Incomplete History commemorates Maine’s 200th year of statehood. The exhibition aims to answer the question, “What is the story of Maine’s history and who gets to tell it?”, ultimately resulting in the selection of 20 stories reflecting the state’s past and present. Viewers will find everything from an oil lamp from the Monhegan Lighthouse to a 1906 Old Town canoe to a variety of artwork from artists like Frederic Edwin Church and David Driskell. Currently on view in digital form at www.portlandmuseum.org/mainestories, the show will appear in the PMA galleries whenever the museum reopens.
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Rose Hartman (b. 1937), Bethann Hardison, Daniela Morera, and Stephen Burrows at Studio 54, 1978. Black and white photograph. Courtesy the artist. © Rose Hartman.
Brooklyn Museum
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The Brooklyn Museum in New York presents an exhibition of photography, fashion, drawings, film and costume illustrations that tell the story of one of history’s most iconic nightclubs, Studio 54 in Midtown Manhattan. Studio 54: Night Magic goes behind the velvet rope, delving into the partygoers of all backgrounds and lifestyles who came together for dazzling nights of music and dance in the mid-20th century. The show moves in chronological order, beginning with the Prohibition Era up to the 1970s, and remains on view through July 5.
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Quiltmaker unidentified, Cleveland-Hendricks Crazy Quilt, 1885-1890. Lithographed silk ribbons, silk and wool, with cotton fringe and silk and metallic embroidery, 75 x 77 in., initialed ‘J.F.R’. The American Folk Art Museum, Gift of Margaret Cavigga, 1985.23.3.
Toledo Museum of Art
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Long associated with ideas of tradition, the patterns and techniques of American quilts have been passed down through generations and have traveled around the country. An exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio celebrates these symbols of American history through an exhibition featuring more than 30 regionally diverse quilts that have been utilized in some way to voice opinions, raise awareness and enact social reform from the mid-19th century to the present. Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change will be on view beginning November 21 and runs through February of 2021.
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Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976), Two Callas, before 1929. Gelatin silver print, 12¾ x 9¾ in. Seattle Art Museum, Gift of John H. Hauberg, 89.26, © (1929), 2009 Imogen Cunningham Trust.
Seattle Art Museum
The Seattle Art Museum has announced the first retrospective in 35 years for photographer Imogen Cunningham beginning in November 2021. Cunningham was known for creating an exceptionally diverse range of work over her 70-year career, having made a major impact on 20th-century photography as a whole. This exhibition showcases approximately 200 of her most perceptive portraits, street photography, plant and flower studies as well as her groundbreaking nude photography.
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Robert Blackburn (1920-2003), Heavy Forms (detail), 1961. Color lithograph, 15¾ x 19½ in. Wesley and Missy Cochran Collection. Photo by Karl Peterson.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
www.nelson-atkins.org
The avant-garde ideas of Robert Blackburn, whose career spanned six decades, spurred American modernism onward and helped solidify printmaking as a fine art in America. Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking places Blackburn beside the teachers, friends and collaborators with whom he engaged throughout his life and features nearly 60 prints and related materials by Blackburn and other collaborative artists, including Grace Hartigan, Robert Rauschenberg, Elizabeth Catlett and Romare Bearden. The exhibition, held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, will be on view through August 2. —
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