Daily art news

PARIS.- The Musée d’Art Moderne offers a fresh appreciation of Kees Van Dongen (1877–1968), the dazzling, disconcerting painter who made his reputation in Paris in the 1920s. This is a comprehensive look at a multifaceted personality: the socially-conscious Dutchman ever ready to caricature and denounce, the avant-garde artist and iconic Fauve, and one of the Roaring Twenties’ leading figures on the trendy Paris scene. The exhibition includes and adds to “All eyes on Kees Van Dongen”, shown at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (18 September 2010-23 January 2011). The exhibition is on display from March 25 through July 17, 2011. 

BROOKLYN, N.Y.- A recent work by Skylar Fein titled Black Lincoln for Dooky Chase is on view at the Brooklyn Museum from March 23 through August 2011 as the centerpiece of an installation including related works from the permanent collection. In Fein's 2010 work he overlays a silhouette portrait of Abraham Lincoln on a panel created to resemble an old wall menu from Dooky Chase, a well-known New Orleans Creole and soul food restaurant.Painted in acrylic on plaster and wood, Fein's portrait is displayed alongside such works as an 1871 marble bas-relief profile of Lincoln, early nineteenth-century cut-paper silhouettes by French artist August Edouart, and Kara Walker's 2005 Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp (from Harper Pictorial History of the Civil War). 

PARIS- The Pinacothèque de Paris presents an exhibition of works by Hugo Pratt, on view from March 17 through August 21, 2011. Thanks to this vast retrospective, the public can discover the breadth of the talent of the creator of Corto Maltese. This exhibition shows over 150 watercolors, most of them little known by the broad public, as well as historical images, more specifcally the whole of the 164 plates of the mythical Ballade de la mer salée. Since the retrospective in the Grand Palais in 1986, it is the frst time that Paris has put on an exhibition devoted to the oeuvre of this exceptional artist, regarded as the inventor of the literary comic strip.