ART SEEN

Welcome all to NYC's newest #artscene feed to keep #artlovers in the know about new exhibitions, gallery openings and art events in the city

#PaulKlee born on this day in 1879. Visit his "#Cat and Bird," 1928 on the 5th floor of @MuseumModernArt 🐱 🐦

HBD to abstract artist Wassily #Kandinsky. "Squares with Concentric Circles," 1913 exemplifies the artist's love of bold expressive color.

#RobertRauschenberg’s "White Paintings," 1951 seem to emit nothingness, they represent art untouched by hands, simple beauty like ❄️(3/3)

Claude #Monet, “Snow Scene at Argenteuil,” 1875. Blues and pinks give snow dimension and a reflective quality in this dreamy landscape (2/3)

Winter is upon us, it's trademark color white has the power to transform canvases into monochrome wastelands or ❄️snowy❄️ wonderlands. (1/3)

#QuoteoftheDay: "A true artist is not one who is inspired, but who inspires others" - #SalvadorDali

Is it 5 o'clock yet? Ringing in #WineWednesday with #Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" 1882. Visit this work at @CourtauldGall in London

In honor of #NationalViolinDay: #ManRay's "Ingre's Violin," 1924 was made by painting f-holes onto a photo print and then rephotographing it

Paging street art lovers: Eric Firestone Gallery presents "Henry Chalfant: 1980," a photographic presentation of renegade art on NYC subways

#MarkRothko's "Dark Palette" at @PaceGallery NYC explores the more mysterious side of his sectional color painting series. Thru January 7.

Some #MondayMotivation. Go out and see something beautiful this week.

HBD to #HelenFrankenthaler. Born in NYC, she contributed works of poetic, fluid abstraction to the cannon of postwar American painting.

Sunday night feels. Pop art tears.

Happy Birthday to #MarkTobey, a #Wisconsin native. His dense abstract compositions were inspired by Asian calligraphy: "Crowded City," 1974.

Peering into 1855 nudes culture @ICPhotog