Tyler Green Modern Art Notes

This week’s Friday exhibition is “Maharaja” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It’s on view through August 19. Organized by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, “Maharaja” presents the art and material culture of India’s great kings from the early 18th century to the mid-20th century. It was curated by the V&A’s Anna Jackson and Amir Jaffir. The VMFA presentation is coordinated by John Henry Rice. The V&A’s microsite for the exhibition is here.

Procession of Maharao Ram Singh II of Kota, c.1850.

Throne, ca. 1876.

Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, London, 1911.

Procession of Bhim Singh of Mewar to Eklingji  Bakhta and Chokha, 1802.

Today’s Friday exhibition is “‘While these visions did appear’: Shakespeare on Canvas” at the Yale Center for British Art. It’s on view through June 3. The show was organized by Eleanor Hughes and Christina Smylitopoulos.

Side note: The YCBA doesn’t just have one of America’s best museum buildings, a Louis Kahn, it has a super website, complete with copyright-stripped images for all. It’s a total gem.

Johann Heinrich Ramberg, Olivia, Maria, and Malvolio from ‘Twelfth Night,’ Act III, Scene iv,1789.

Joseph Noel Paton, Puck and Fairies, from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ ca. 1850.

Charles Hunt, Children acting the ‘Play Scene’ from ‘Hamlet,’ Act II, Scene ii, 1863.

John S. Clifton, “Buck Washing on Datchet Mead, from ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor,’ Act III, Scene v, 1849.

This week’s Friday exhibition is “Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful” at the Denver Art Museum. Curated from the museum’s collection by curator Eric Paddock, the show is on view through September 30. Paddock joined me on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast to talk about Winogrand and the series. (The first guest on this week’s show is former Winogrand student Mitch Epstein.)

Garry Winogrand, Laughing Woman with Ice Cream Cone, 1968.

Garry Winogrand, Woman Riding Bicycle, 1975.

Garry Winogrand, Woman with Teardrop Earring, 1975.

Garry Winogrand, Woman with Bandana, n.d.

Garry Winogrand, Histrionics on Bench, 1975

This week’s Friday exhibition is “Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-72″ at the Hammer Museum. The exhibition was organized by WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, in collaboration with the Hammer the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It was curated by Elena Filipovic and Joanna Mytkowska. The show is on view at the Hammer through April 29. It will travel to the Wexner Center for the Arts and to MoMA.

Alina Szapocznikow, Autoportret I (Self-Portrait I), 1966.

Alina Szapocznikow, Tumeurs personnifiees (Tumors personified), 1971.

Alina Szapocznikow, Petit Dessert I (Small Dessert I), 1970-71.

Alina Szapocznikow, Fotorzezby (Photosculptures), 1971/2007.

Alina Szapocznikow, Souvenirs, 1967.

This week’s Friday exhibition is “Keith Haring: 1978-82″ at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition, which will be on view through July 8, was curated by Raphaela Platow. The Brooklyn Museum co-organized it with the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and the Kunsthalle Wien. Karen Rosenberg reviewed the show in this morning’s New York Times.

Keith Haring, Untitled Journal Drawing, 1977.

Keith Haring, Untitled, 1978.

Keith Haring, Untitled, 1980.

Keith Haring, Untitled Drawing, 1982.

Don’t miss the Keith Haring journals Tumblr, which was set up by the Keith Haring Foundation with some help from the Brooklyn Museum. Each day the foundation is publishing a page (or a two-page spread) from Haring’s journals. This page is from 1971, just before Haring started high school.

This week’s MAN Friday exhibition is the Tate Liverpool/Kunsthalle Nuremberg 20-year survey of the work of New York-and-Marfa-based painter Charline von Heyl. The exhibition just opened at the Tate Liverpool, where it remains on view through May 27.

Von Heyl was my guest on Episode Two of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. We talked about her first American survey, then at the ICA Philadelphia and about how she makes her paintings. I think artists will particularly dig it…

Charline von Heyl, Woman #2, 2009.

Charline von Heyl, Orpheus, 2008.

Charline von Heyl, Catch and Wreck, 2011.

Charline von Heyl, Regretsy, 2009.

Charline von Heyl, Lalo, 2008.

This week’s Friday exhibition is “Ripple Effect, The Art of H20″ at the Peabody Essex Museum. The show is on view through July 8. Cate McQuaid reviewed the exhibition in the Boston Globe.

If you enjoy these images and the stories behind some of them in McQuaid’s review, you’ll love SFMOMA curator Corey Keller’s outstanding 2008 show “Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900.”

Peter Wasilewski, Burble’s Gradient, 2005. (A pigmented inkjet photograph.)

Jim Denevan, Siberia Circles, 2010. (Nine-square-mile snow drawing (detail), represented by a pigmented inkjet photograph by Peter Hinson.)

Meg Harries, Droplet, 2000. (Hand-blown glass.)

Shinichi Maruyama, Water Sculpture #9, 2010. (Archival pigment print.)