Incollect Magazine - Issue 10

Incollect Magazine 91 Tamara de Lempicka: The Making of an Art Deco Icon De Young Museum The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Through February 9 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 9 through May 26 This is the first major exhibition in the United States dedicated to the Polish-born Paris-based Art Deco painter whose work synonymized the Roaring Twenties. The show pairs Art Deco objects, sculptures, and fashion from the museum’s collection with 150 of Lempicka’s paintings and drawings ranging from early, colorful post-Cubist portraits and still life paintings produced in the 1920s in Paris to her later nudes and glamorous Art Deco-inspired portraits of the wealthy in a classical figural style for which today she is best known. Art Deco City: New York Postcards from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection Museum of the City of New York Through February 17 This exhibition tells the story of how colorful and mass-produced postcards played a role in establishing Art Deco landmarks in New York, including the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, and Rockefeller Center, as international icons that came to define the city as a center of modern architecture, art and design. The exhibition includes over 250 postcards (on loan from the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) along with artifacts, film footage, photography, drawings, and other archival material relating to Art Deco that shaped New York’s image to the world as a cosmopolitan and cultured modern metropolis.