Every Day's Journey

R.B. Kitaj:  The Exile at Home R.B. Kitaj, Los Angeles No. 7 (Double), 2001, Oil on canvas March 4 - April 8, 2017 Opening reception Saturday, March 4, 2017 6-8pm Marlborough Contemporary is pleased to present R.B. Kitaj:  The Exile at Home  curated, by Barry Schwabsky. R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) was one of the most prominent painters of his time, particularly in England where the American artist spent some four decades spanning the late 1950s through the late 1990s. Part of an extraordinary cohort who emerged from the Royal College of Art circa 1960, which included Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, and David Hockney, Kitaj was immediately pegged as one of its leading figures. The London Times greeted his first solo show in 1963 as a long-awaited and galvanizing event: “Mr. R.B. Kitaj’s first exhibition, now that it has at last taken place, puts the whole ‘new wave’ of figurative painting in this country during the last two

GARAGE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF TRAVEL GRANTS FOR INTERNATIONAL CURATORS   Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce  the winners of its Travel Grants for international curators . These grants will be used to enable the winning curators to attend the first  Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art  which runs from  March 10 to May 14, 2017 . The winners, selected from a diverse international pool of established curators, will spend four days in Moscow, where they will explore the largest survey of contemporary Russian art to date. The winners are:  Riksa  Afiatry  (Indonesia),  Celenk Bafra  (Turkey),  Lizaveta German  (Ukraine),  Jarret Gregory  (United States),  Albert Heta  (Kosovo),  Li Qi  (China),  Joanna Sokolowska  (Poland),  Polly Staple  (Great Britain),  Chen Tamir  (Israel), and  Diana Ukhina  (Kyrgyzstan). Garage received more than 130 applications from 44 countries , including Australia, Brazil,

The Purge: Valentine's Day 2017 Tuesday , Februrary 14, 2017 5-8PM No Guarantees. No Returns. No Love. This Valentines Day, ahead of the US debut of his ongoing project,  The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment , Bjarne Melgaard will be giving away his personal collection of designer fashion and streetwear FREE of charge to the public, on a first come, first serve basis. In groups of 100, the shoppers will have 5-10 minutes to fill their custom  MELGAARD  garbage bags with as much as they can carry. Once their time is up, shoppers will be immediately evacuated from the premise. The hoard includes scores of pieces by  Comme des Garçon, Eckhaus Latta, HUF, Issey Miyake, Jeremy Scott, Lanvin, Margiela, Raf Simons, Stussy, Supreme, Telfar, Yohji Yamamoto  — as well as 100+ pieces from the new  MELGAARD  streetwear collection, which makes its world debut within this purge...  but get ready for disappointment, too... NO GUARANTEES.

Opening this Thursday, February 9th, 2017, 6:30-9pm The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence Daphne Wright: Prayer Project The Fine Print: Selections from the Collection Bequest of Ann Kirk Warren ‘50 Carlo Dolci,  Self Portrait , 1674. Photo Credit: Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali/Art Resource, NY.    The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence The Davis Museum at Wellesley College will present  The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence , the first-ever exhibition in America devoted to the luminous and meticulously rendered paintings and drawings of 17th-century Italian artist Carlo Dolci (1616–1687), and the Davis Museum’s most ambitious Old Master project to date. Dolci was arguably the most important artist in Florence during the 17th-century and the exhibition brings together for the first time in the U.S. the artist's sophisticated devoti