Giorgio Morandi Time Suspended

In fall 2024, there was an exquisite Morandi show uptown.

Click on the opening sentence to access Mattia De Luca's website. The gallery hosted Part II (Part I was in Italy) in a brownstone uptown. These photos, and my words, cannot describe the perfect scale and distribution of paintings in this environment, so similar to how Morandi must have made these works in his childhood home.

Detail of the above. Throughout this post you will see a mixture of earlier and later works, ending earlier as I walked the rooms backward. These photos are't captioned, but document this rare, wonderful event.

 

Asia Society Museum presents Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala

https://asiasociety.org/asia-society-museum-presents-madayin-eight-decades-aboriginal-australian-bark-painting-yirrkala

This literal walkthrough of the exhibition comprises three rooms and two floors of Asia Society. I may summarize the didactic panels later, but for now leaving them so interested readers can directly research  these incredible bark paintings. What I glean overall, is that various tribes perfect a songline technique passed through their lineage, with any overlap negotiated among tribes. 

The colors are iron oxide, painted with handmade brushes, on eucalyptus.

A new generation

Movement of water on shore

Movement of fish in water

One of my favorites--dense patterning, yet irregular, highly textured

More decorative imagery by women not allowed to access the songline

Upstairs, third floor

Then a room of contemporary works on linen