Last Call- French Drawings at NYU's Grey Art Gallery through July 14th

"Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art" and "French Art from NYU's Collection," Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, April 17 through July 14, 2012.

Alexandre-Louis Leloir

Moroccan Girl Playing a Stringed Instrument, 1875

Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on ivory wove paper

9 5/8 x 13 9/16 in.

Gift of the Wunsch Foundation, Inc., 1983

Celebrate Bastille Day 2012 (known in France as Le Quatorze Juillet - July 14th) with a splendid array of French drawings executed from the 16th through 20th centuries. Comprised of 50 drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas as Austin and about two dozen more from New York University's permanent collection, these two separate shows feature narratives of heroes, femme fatales, and contemporary street life from the years before and after the French Revolution.

Last Call: Francesca Woodman at the Guggenheim, closing June 13

Francesca Woodman, Guggenheim Museum, 
March 16-June 13, 2012

Francesca Woodman, Polka Dots, 

Providence, Rhode Island, 1976. 

Gelatin silver print, 13.3 x 13.3 cm. 

© George and Betty Woodman,

 courtesy George and Betty Woodman

One of this season's most important exhibitions is about to close: the first survey of Francesca Woodman photographs in New York since the first traveling retrospective in 1986-88, presented at Hunter College in NY, Wellesley in Massachusetts, University of California at Irvine and Krannet Art Museum in Champaign, Illinois.