American Art Depicting Dance

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(above: William Merritt Chase, Carmencita, c. 1890, oil on canvas, 69 7/8 x 40 7/8 inches, Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC). Gift of Sir William Van Horne, 1906. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 


Alex Katz: Theater and Dance is an exhibition hosted by the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine from August 16, 2022 through February 19, 2023. The museum describes the exhibition as follows: "Since the late 1950s, Alex Katz has painted dancers and designed sets and costumes for theater and dance productions, and yet this will be the first comprehensive museum presentation of Katz's highly collaborative and playful work with choreographers, dancers, and members of avant-garde theater ensembles. Organized by the Colby Museum with the guidance of curator Robert Storr, the artist himself, and a curatorial team, Alex Katz: Theater and Dance will offer an unparalleled opportunity to experience Katz's designs and his process. It will also show how painting and design for the stage have intertwined in Katz's work. Throughout his many theater and dance collaborations, Katz has challenged the conventional while bringing his recognizable style to performance. Alex Katz: Theater and Dance will bring together unpublished, never before exhibited sketches from the artist's collection, major sets and paintings, and rare archival materials from Paul Taylor Dance Company. Together, these will show Katz introducing tenets of postwar painting into dance and theater aesthetics and foreground the deep inspiration he has drawn from a prolonged study of performance". Accessed 9/23

The Art of American Dance is a 2016-17 exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which says: "The Art of American Dance examines dance-inspired paintings, prints, sculptures, and photographs from the 1830s to the recent past -- from dance in Native American cultures to ballroom dancing, to Jitterbug, swing, modern dance, and others. Exploring the variety of ways Americans embrace dance as part of everyday life, as well as the diverse forms of professional dance, including burlesque, flamenco, and classical ballet, the exhibition highlights the central place dance has held in American culture and in the imagination of American artists." Accessed 10/16 Also see Dance! American Art 1830-1960 and related Detroit Institute of Arts news release. Accessed 10/16

 

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