The National Gallery of Art acquires works by Friedrich Sustris and Arthur Wesley Dow
Arthur Wesley Dow, Marsh Creek, c. 1914. Color woodcut on laid paper, sheet: 11.43 x 17.78 cm (4 1/2 x 7 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund 2021.16.1.
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.-The National Gallery of Art has recently acquired Euterpe (Personification of Music) (1569/1573), an outstanding drawing by Friedrich Sustris (c. 15401599). Created shortly after Sustriss arrival in what is now modern Germany, the work exemplifies his broad stylistic knowledge and refinement. It joins two other drawings by the artist in the collection: The Baptism of Christ (probably 1580s) and An Elaborate Altar with the Resurrection of Christ and the Martyrdom of Saint Andrew (1570/1580).
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Ragnar Kjartansson: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy, with performers Diana Gameros, left, and Kendra McKinley at the Guggenheim Museum iin New York. A video installation by Wu Tsang with Beverly Glenn-Copeland is part of a series of shows with a shared political charge, a taste of what can be. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; David Heald via The New York Times.
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.- When the lockdown lifted this past spring, some of our big New York City museums were able to slide major waiting-in-the-wings exhibitions into place. The Guggenheim wasnt so lucky. A traveling Joan Mitchell retrospective slated to fill its rotunda had been canceled. The museum might have whipped up a crowd-pleasing show of modernist chestnuts from the collection. Instead, it did something more interesting. It turned itself into an old-style alternative space. It already had some small side-gallery shows in place or on track, including a se