New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s.
Rudy Burckhardt
and Friends is the
first, and
long-overdue,
American
museum
exhibition to focus
on work by the late
Rudy Burckhardt. In an unusual pairing,
Burckhardt's photographic portraits of New York
artists from a twenty-odd year period are
displayed alongside works by those artists from
New York University's art collection,
supplemented by loans from the Albright Knox
Gallery and the Parrish Art Museum.
The show allows viewers to see how one artist
chose to portray another and to view stellar, but
rarely exhibited, works by such renowned artists
as Josef Albers, Willem and Elaine de Kooning,
Philip Guston, Al Held, Alex Katz, Joan Mitchell,
Marisol, and Jackson Pollock. In addition, the
exhibition features a selection of Burckhardt's
remarkable Manhattan cityscapes and
pioneering independent films
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
New York, NY
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