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Bride with Fan (detail), 1911, Marc Chagall, ©2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS) |
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Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony explores the wedding as a source of inspiration for the creation of art in cultures around the world. Featuring approximately 130 objects, this ambitious exhibition presents work by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Claes Oldenburg and Jacob Lawrence alongside historic and couture gowns, ceremonial items and rare jewelry. The complex beliefs and emotions surrounding the matrimonial experience are reflected in three centuries of art and culture from the United States, Asia, Africa and Europe. The full spectrum of the matrimonial experience - from courtship, engagement, and pre-nuptial arrangements to wedding rituals, ceremonies, and anniversaries - is richly represented.
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Characters from the play The Love Affair of Otomi and Scarfaced Yosaburo, 1857, Utagawa Kunisada. |
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Stage Idols, Japanese Kabuki Theater
THROUGH JANUARY 25, 2009
With its dramatic storylines, lush costumes and celebrity actors, kabuki was the ideal subject for Japanese print designers. Stage Idols, Japanese Kabuki Theater features a stunning selection of woodblock prints from PEM’s collection, many of which are on view for the first time. The exhibition features a rotating selection of over forty 19th-century prints — including works by famed print designer Utagawa Kunisada — as well as rare kabuki-related objects, such as costumes, photographs and sign-boards. Curated by Midori Oka, PEM curator of Japanese art and culture, Stage Idols opens Feb. 2, 2008, and runs through Jan. 25, 2009. MORE
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Human Face Mask, ca. 1820, Kaigani Haida artist. Kasaan Village, Alaska. |
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Intersections
Native American Art in a New Light
DODGE GALLERY 2
A stunning selection of Native American art will be on display at the Peabody Essex Museum beginning June 24, 2006. Intersections, Native American Art in a New Light is a new exhibition drawn primarily from the museum’s collections and features more than 70 works, including never-before-seen objects, such as a 17th century bejeweled Incan dance crown and a David Bradley monoprint (2000). In addition to beadwork, textiles, ceramics, and drawings, the exhibition includes paintings and an installation by Nora Naranjo-Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo). Diverse cultures––from the Penobscot in the Northeast and Haida of British Columbia, to the Pueblos of the American Southwest and Incas of Peru––are represented. “Intersections focuses on connections––between the traditional and the personal, the present and the past, the Native and the non-Native, and Indigenous and Western media. It emphasizes the creative possibilities and the dynamic tensions that arise from aesthetic, cultural, and political influences,” says PEM guest curator Laurie Beth Kalb, who co-curated the exhibition with PEM assistant curator of Native American art, Karen Kramer. Artist Nora Naranjo Morse also served as a curatorial consultant. The exhibition,which covers the 1600s to the present, will remain on view indefinitely. MORE
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