Robert Lehman News

The Museum of Modern Art announces Jasper Johns: Regrets, an exhibition of new work by Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930), on view from March 15 to September 1, 2014, in The Paul J. Sachs Drawings Galleries.

Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the greatest of all Neoclassical sculptors, remains famous above all for his elegant, nude mythological subjects carved in marble. But he also worked in a spiritual mode, at once deeply serious and deceptively simple. This less familiar Canova is revealed in an extraordinary series of full-scale plaster models illustrating episodes from the Old and New Testaments that will be on view in Antonio Canova: The Seven Last Works at the Metropolitan Museum beginning today, January 22, 2014.

How many people can count among their closest friends Ethel Merman (the Queen of Broadway), Mother Teresa (beatified by the Vatican in October, 2003), Lee Lehman, (wife of Robert Lehman, head of Lehman Brothers), Pierre Cardin (legendary couturier and major show-business force in Europe), and many others? Well, Tony Cointreau, a scion of the French liqueur family, can. His new memoir, Ethel Merman, Mother Teresa... and Me, will be released on February 15th (the 30th anniversary of Ethel Merman's death). The book is currently available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the greatest of all Neoclassical sculptors, remains famous above all for his elegant, nude mythological subjects carved in marble. But he also worked in a spiritual mode, at once deeply serious and deceptively simple. This less familiar Canova is revealed in an extraordinary series of full-scale plaster models illustrating episodes from the Old and New Testaments that will be on view in Antonio Canova: The Seven Last Works at the Metropolitan Museum beginning January 22, 2014. The sculptures in this exhibition were made in connection with a project for 32 reliefs, illustrating scenes from the Bible, that were to adorn the Tempio Canoviano, the church-later his mausoleum-that he built for his home town of Possagno. He completed only seven of the models before his death. They constitute Canova's last, profoundly moving masterworks.

Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa: The Venini Company, 1932-1947 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is devoted to the work in glass of the influential Italian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978). Scarpa created a unique and multifaceted body of work in architecture and design.

The Parrish Art Museum, founded in 1898, opened the doors of its new, 34,400-square-foot Herzog & de Meuron-designed, building in November of 2012. The new Parrish includes 12,200 square feet of exhibition space—three times that of the Museum's former home on Jobs Lane in Southampton. Seven sky-lit galleries devoted to the permanent collection showcase the story of America's most enduring and influential artists' colony—Eastern Long Island.

Because the American Civil War threatened both the founding principles and the viability of the republic, the nation's entire population was deeply affected by the fact of the conflict and its outcome. The major loan exhibition The Civil War and American Art, which will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning May 27, will consider how American artists responded to the Civil War and its aftermath. Landscapes and genre scenes-more than traditional history paintings-captured the war's impact on the American psyche. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the conflict: unease as war became inevitable, optimism that a single battle might end the struggle, growing realization that fighting would be prolonged, enthusiasm and worries alike surrounding emancipation, and concerns about how to reunify the nation after a period of grievous division. The exhibition proposes significant new readings of many familiar masterworks-some 60 paintings and 18 photographs created between 1852 and 1877-including landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church and Sanford Robinson Gifford, paintings of life on the battlefront and the home front by Winslow Homer and Eastman Johnson, and photographs by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and George N. Barnard.

More than 200 of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for the landmark exhibition Photography and the American Civil War, opening April 2 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through examples drawn from the Metropolitan's celebrated holdings of this material, complemented by exceptional loans from public and private collections, the exhibition will examine the evolving role of the camera during the nation's bloodiest war. The 'War between the States' was the great test of the young Republic's commitment to its founding precepts; it was also a watershed in photographic history. The camera recorded from beginning to end the heartbreaking narrative of the epic four-year war (1861-1865) in which 750,000 lives were lost. This traveling exhibition will explore, through photography, the full pathos of the brutal conflict that, after 150 years, still looms large in the American public's imagination.

Piero della Francesca was revered in his own time as a 'monarch' of painting. Yet by the end of the sixteenth century his achievements had sunk into obscurity. During the nineteenth century, however, British and American collectors on the European Grand Tour rediscovered the master's works and resurrected his reputation, and today Piero is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of the Italian Renaissance.

MoMA PS1 presentsNow Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, a comprehensive exhibition that chronicles the vital legacy of the African American artistic community in Los Angeles, examining a pioneering group of black artists whose work, connections, and friendships with other artists of varied ethnic backgrounds helped shape the creative output of Southern California. Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 will be on view in the First Floor Main galleries at MoMA PS1 from October 21, 2012 through March 11, 2013.

Portland Ovations presents violinist, Jennifer Koh at Hannaford Hall tonight, May 3 at 7:30pm.

Portland Ovations presents violinist, Jennifer Koh at Hannaford Hall on Thursday, May 3 at 7:30pm.

Some 180 examples of the very earliest works of Egyptian art-created in the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, around 4400 B.C.-2649 B.C. (the end of Dynasty 2) from throughout Egypt-will be featured in the exhibition The Dawn of Egyptian Art, opening April 10, 2012, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Outstanding examples of sculpture, painting, and relief from the collections of the Metropolitan and 11 other museums in the United States and Europe have been gathered for this presentation.

An exhibition of works by Dürer and other masters is on display April 3-September 3 at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City, and highlights achievements in Central European Draftsmanship from 1400 to 1700.

Portland Ovations presents American composer and violin virtuoso Mark O'Connor and his string quartet on Friday, March 4th at Merrill Auditorium.

Portland Ovations presents American composer and violin virtuoso Mark O'Connor and his string quartet on Friday, March 4th at Merrill Auditorium.

This winter, Rembrandt's legacy is the subject of The Frick Collection's special exhibition Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections, which will present a selection of paintings, prints, and drawings by the master and the diverse group of Dutch artists who constitute his school, among them Govert Flinck, Ferdinand Bol, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Carel Fabritius, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Nicolaes Maes, Philips Koninck, and Lambert Doomer.

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik will join Yale University Art Gallery Curator Laurence Kanter for an in-depth conversation about art and Long Wharf Theatre's production of Simon Gray's The Old Masters on Sunday, Feb. 6.

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik will join Yale University Art Gallery Curator Laurence Kanter for an in-depth conversation about art and Long Wharf Theatre's production of Simon Gray's The Old Masters on Sunday, Feb. 6.

This winter, Rembrandt's legacy is the subject of The Frick Collection's special exhibition Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections, which will present a selection of paintings, prints, and drawings by the master and the diverse group of Dutch artists who constitute his school, among them Govert Flinck, Ferdinand Bol, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Carel Fabritius, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Nicolaes Maes, Philips Koninck, and Lambert Doomer.