Pop Art goes Sinister

When it comes to modern art, Pop Art is the largest form of income. People will pay big bucks for a painting done by Andy Warhol. There have been many museum displays of Pop Art recently such as "Regarding Warhol" at the Met in New York and the touring exhibit, "Lichtenstein survey" which is currently located at the National Gallery. However, like everything these days, people are always looking for the next big thing. They Whitney art museum in New York has taken the next step with a new exhibit called "Sinister Pop." Organized by the museum's curators, Donna De Salvo and Scott Rothkopf, displays Pop art with a sinister twist. The art on display features consumerism of the early 1960s, antiwar, and anti-corporate sentiment of work. It also includes photographs from the 60s and 70s. Some of the paintings include Warhol's race riots and electric chair, paintings of gas stations, and barred-off highway landscapes. This new exhibition evokes gloomy thoughts within the frequent visitors.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/arts/design/sinister-pop-at-the-whitney.html?ref=design&_r=0
 

'Absorbed by Color'

The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, N.Y. is hosting "Absorbed by Color: Art in the 20th Century." This show is a tour of color in 20th-century paintings. This display is ambitious, but the "younger sister" of the 2008 Museum of Modern Art's "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today" exhibition. "Absorbed by Color" is not a collaboration of well known artists and paintings, instead, it leans toward lesser-known and overlooked artists. Artists featured in this display include Joseph Albers, George Biddle (influenced by the famous impressionist, Degas), De Hirsh Margules, James Henry Daugherty's and many more talented artists. The curator decided to arrange this exhibition by color, grouping the reds together, the yellows together, ETC. Some may say that this is a childish way of displaying this show, but it will attract the largest possible audience.        http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/nyregion/a-review-of-absorbed-by-color-at-the-heckscher-museum-of-art.html?ref=design

Art Comes Alive at the MoMA

Even a dangerous hurricane cannot stop an exhibit at the MoMA in New York City from going off without a hitch! The Museum of Modern Art has had a dance series and the last installment was interrupted by Hurricane Sandy. "Some sweet day" is the series finale. The artists, Deborah Hay's and Sarah Michelson included racial themes. In this exhibit, the dancers mingled with the audience. The choreographer, Ralph Lemon said that, "It's been a difficult week." This performance provided a relief from the horrible events from the past week, if only for a moment. The dancers came from a wide range of dance companies.       http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/arts/dance/sarah-michelson-and-deborah-hay-in-moma-series.html?ref=arts&_r=0