No, Resolve40 does not have a time machine, but our favorite museum exhibitions that opened on the heels of the solstice will bring you back, visually, to the way we were in summers past.
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
on view June 26, 2008-September 21, 2008
The comprehensive Buckminster Fuller exhibition at the Whitney will make you think about where we are going as well. The self-described "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist" devoted his life and vision to work that would benefit humanity by creatively and intellectually addressing environmental and economic concerns, problems that would trouble our future if not solved in the present. A viewing of his works and concepts is time well spent in 2008 - the first summer in human history that there will be no ice cap at the North Pole.
Dalí: Painting and Film
June 29–September 15, 2008
At the MoMA, "Dali: Painting and Film" provides an illuminating overview of how this surrealist icon influenced, and was influenced by, the cinema. Immerse yourself in his collaborations with film greats Bunuel, Hitchcock and Disney alongside myriad paintings - side by side in the galleries - it's a cool dip in the pool of the collective unconscious of the last century.
Le Défi, 1991. Painted wood, glass, and electrical light,
67 1/2 x 58 x 26 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
91.3903. © Louise Bourgeois/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois
June 27 - September 28th 2008
The career of Louise Bourgeois is a work in progress - the current retrospective at the Guggenheim, beginning in the early 20th Century and including work thorough 2008 - presents an artist adept and articulate in all media, and in touch with the times as well as the inner life of humanity, related via her own experience and expressions. Sensual, stunning and not to be missed, the exhibition is enhanced by the companion presentation downstairs in the museum's Sackler Center, "A Life in Picture - Louise Bourgeois.
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and
Commons, October 16, 1834 (detail),
1835, by Joseph Mallord William Turner.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, The
John Howard McFadden Collection, 1928
J. M. W. Turner
July 1, 2008–September 21, 2008
The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor
Since we a travelling in time, why not straddle the turn of another century at the Met? 200 years ago, painter J.M.W. Turner was a controversial iconoclast, destined to change the history of art. It's been more than forty years since a retrospective of his work has been seen in the US, so don't miss the chance to be dazzled by 140 of his works. Some call him the father of abstract expressionism - decide for yourself, up close.
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