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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 31, 2025 visibility 6 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

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On November 11, the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation will honor painter Alex Katz at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, celebrating a decades-long creative partnership between Katz and the late choreographer Paul Taylor. The collaboration began in 1960 when poet Edwin Denby introduced them for a commission at the Spoleto Festival, leading to 16 works together including "Meridian," "Scudorama," "Private Domain," "Diggity," and "Sunset." At the gala, the company will perform "Sunset," which Katz conceived after observing soldiers in Madrid’s Retiro Park. Katz is also showing new paintings at Gladstone Gallery in New York, while the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego hosts "Alex Katz: Theater and Dance," the first major survey of his stage work.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 17, 2025 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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The Guggenheim Museum in New York opened "Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can't Be Stopped" in its tower galleries to mark what would have been the artist's 100th birthday. The exhibition features select works from the Guggenheim's collection and loans from the Rauschenberg foundation, including the monumental silkscreen painting *Barge* (1962–63), which returns to New York for the first time in nearly 25 years. A gala performance for the museum's "Works & Process" series featured dancers performing Paul Taylor's *Tracer* (1962), for which Rauschenberg created costumes and sets, along with works by Trisha Brown and John Cage, underscoring the artist's deep ties to dance.

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A gala performance at the Guggenheim Museum in New York marked what would have been Robert Rauschenberg's 100th birthday, featuring dancers performing Paul Taylor's 'Tracer' (1962), for which Rauschenberg created costumes and sets—including a spinning bicycle wheel that served as a portal to the exhibition above. The show, 'Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped,' opened in one of the museum's tower galleries and runs through May 3, presenting select works from the Guggenheim's collections and loans from the artist's foundation, including major pieces like 'Barge' (1962–63), the largest silkscreen painting Rauschenberg made in the early 1960s, back in New York for the first time in nearly 25 years.

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Is Vermeer’s ‘The Art of Painting’ in fact a lost work?

Paul Taylor, a curator at London's Warburg Institute and specialist in 17th-century Dutch art, argues that Vermeer's celebrated painting 'The Art of Painting' (1666-68), housed at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, may not be the work referenced in a 1676 legal document by Vermeer's widow Catharina. Taylor tracked down 25 period descriptions of 'de schilderconst' (the art of painting) and found they all depict allegorical personifications of painting, not studio scenes like the Vienna canvas, which shows an artist painting a model as the muse Clio. He suggests the document refers to a now-lost Vermeer that could still surface.

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Is Vermeer’s ‘The Art of Painting’ in fact a lost work?

Paul Taylor, a curator at London’s Warburg Institute specializing in 17th-century Dutch art, argues that Vermeer’s celebrated painting *The Art of Painting* (1666-68), housed at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, may not be the work referenced in a 1676 legal document by the artist’s widow, Catharina. Taylor tracked 25 period descriptions of “de schilderconst” (the art of painting) and found they all depict allegorical personifications of painting, not studio scenes like Vermeer’s composition. He believes the document refers to a now-lost Vermeer that could still resurface.

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