Museum round-up

The art scene these days is certainly a busy one - there have been non-stop openings and events for the past couple of weeks and I must say I've been very excited. While I've spent much of my energy focused on the great gallery shows happening, there are in fact quite a few museum exhibitions of note:

Kandinsky

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

September 18, 2009 - January 13, 2010

Vermeer's Masterpiece: The Milkmaid

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

September 10, 2009 - November 29, 2009

Georgia O'Keefe: Abstraction

Whitney Museum of American Art

September 17, 2009 - January 17, 2010

Monet's Water Lilies

Museum of Modern Art

September 13, 2009 - April 12, 2010

Keepin' it on the "DL"

Every week for a year I've been walking by a poster of Picasso's 1900 Moulin de la Galette (above) in the hall of my graduate department. I think Picasso's pre-Cubist career is too often overshadowed by his Cubist works, but recently this painting has stepped into the limelight--and not for the work's technical bravura. Since 2007 this painting, along with Boy Leading a Horse of MoMA's collection, have been in the middle of a Nazi restitution case. The Guggenheim and MoMA just settled out of court with the claimant, Julius H. Schoeps, without the judge's authorization. He was less than pleased.

Check out the story on bloomberg.com