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

The Met Exhibiting Vermeer's Milkmaid

I'm incredibly excited for this upcoming show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art- they're receiving Vermeer's The Milkmaid from Amsterdam where it has been at the Rijksmuseum.

This will be the first time the painting has traveled to the USA since the 1939 World's Fair. It will be exhibited among five other Vermeers and work by other admired Delft artists such as Pieter de Hooch, Gabriël Metsu, Nicolaes Maes, Emanuel de Witte, Hendrick van Vliet, and Hendrick Sorgh.

The exhibition will open on September 10 and will be up until November 29, 2009. After such quiet weeks in the art world (as is usually in the month of August), I have something to look forward to - I absolutely adore Vermeer's use of light - who doesn't?

Click here to read The HuffingtonPost article on the upcoming exhibition of Vermeer's Milkmaid at the Met