Tell us about the best exhibition you have been to. I saw Monet in the '80s in Boston

[applegrove]

in the 1980s. It was incredible. They would put 4 of Monet's 'Dawn Rising Over The River Seine' together on one wall and you could see he was literally painting differing moments of a dawn in the same spot.

[grasswire]

1. I will never forget seeing Renoir's "The Boating Party " in person...

...in D.C. Just couldn't take my eyes off it for a long, long time.

[elleng]

2. Had a poster of it, in college.

[elleng]

3. Missed this earlier; looks interesting,

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/09/arts/design/20110709-barnes-art-pano.html?hp?hp

[denbot]

4. Van Gogh was here in Los Angeles around ten years ago..

Mesmerizing.

[Graybeard]

5. "The Pieta" at the 1964 NY World's Fair.

It was part of the Vatican Pavilion exhibit. Michelangelo's Pieta was breathtaking in it's beauty. I will never forget that experience.

http://www.westland.net/ny64fair/map-docs/vatican.htm

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[applegrove]

11. Oh yeah. I saw it in Rome.

[DFW]

6. The Picasso Museum in Barcelona is pretty awe-inspiring.

Also saw a Dalí exposition in Montmartre that had more than I expected.
When I was a teenager living in Barcelona, I was asked to play music for a
reception Dalí was giving--only time I ever met him in person.

[DFW]

7. The Picasso Museum in Barcelona is pretty awe-inspiring.

Also saw a Dalí exposition in Montmartre that had more than I expected.
When I was a teenager living in Barcelona, I was asked to play music for a
reception Dalí was giving--only time I ever met him in person.

[Iggo]

8. King Tut exhibit...mid 70's (?).

Fucking amazing.

[Seedersandleechers]

12. Saw that exhibit in Chicago.

It was absolutely amazing. I remember standing in line behind an elderly Asian women. I looked down at her feet and noticed they were half the size they should have been, then realized her feet had at one time been bound. Freaked me out.

[Iggo]

17. I was just a kid...

...but I remember standing in those dark rooms with all that shiny gold stuff and thinking "This is actual treasure!"

Standing next to it waaaaay beats seeing it on TV or reading about it.

[KamaAina]

9. Japan & Paris at Honolulu Academy of Arts

What better place to explore the Impressionists' Japanese influences? Plus, we learned that Impressionism, especially Pissarro, was influenced by the then-fledgling medium of photography.

[bif]

10. Marc Chagall in Rome this past Christmas

Incredible to see all those paintings in one place. They were from museums and private collections from around the world.

[Tikki]

13. A David Hockney in the 80's at LACMA...

One of my favorite contempo artists...


Tikki

[Blue_Tires]

14. Warhol at the High Museum in 1998

[NewJeffCT]

15. The best exhibition I remember

was this hot young girl I had a crush on - she was drunk & pulled up her top for me in the hallway of our dorm late at night. That was a nice exhibit. (I was too much of a gentleman to take advantage of her when drunk...)

[SteppingRazor]

16. I went to a local underground gallery in a warehouse a couple years ago.

There were models, naked but for brown paper bags over their heads, roaming throughout the crowd. A performance artist occasionally fired a handgun into the ceiling, another held a sign offering to drive people on the trip of their lives (he left with a car-full, bound for only God and the artist knew where). There was free rum and beer. In a side room, a noise-rock band squelched out a sound that I can only describe as like a dying mammal, but more horrifying. The lighting ranged slowly from near-black dimness to bright and back again over the course of an hour, with the half-hour marks being crushingly bright. A man on a balcony read poetry while covered in what appeared to be blood.

That was a pretty good time, if I recall correctly.


On edit: Oh, and there were paintings on the walls. Good stuff.

[applegrove]

22. That sounds really interesting.

[SteppingRazor]

26. Everybody else in the thread went with the classics, so ...

I figured I should go with avant garde contemporary. :)

The paintings actually were more lowbrow work than anything else -- not really what you would call avant garde, but certainly controversial in their own way -- but really good stuff.

[mysuzuki2]

18. In 1952 I saw an exhibition game between the Minneapolis Millers

and their parent team, the New York giants. Willie Mays hit a homerun.

[graywarrior]

19. I saw Monet in Boston also!

Stunning!

[applegrove]

23. Oh I loved it. And Boston is such a great town.

[GoCubsGo]

20. The Terracotta Army

The Field Museum in Chicago had number of them on exhibition back in the early 1980s. There was a photograph of them on the cover of the Sunday Tribune Magazine. My mom and I thought they were small statues, maybe a foot tall at most. We were dumbfounded when we got there, and they were life-size!

I also got to see a real cool Monet exhibition back in the late 1970s in St. Louis at their art museum. I always appreciated his works after that.

[Sisaruus]

21. 100 Flowers

Georgia O'Keeffe. At the Chicago Art Institute, probably in the early 90s.

[kwassa]

24. Too many to count. A Francisco Goya retrospective at the Prado in Madrid.

This showed his entire progression from a very mannered court painter, through his horrors-of-war etchings to his wildly expressionistic paintings towards the end of his life.

As an added bonus, the museum also had on display many Peter Paul Rubens, who had been ambassador to Spain, the incredible painter Diego Velasquez, including his masterpiece "Las Meninas", and several famous Hieronymous Bosch paintings like "Garden of Earthly Delights"

[MrScorpio]

25. The Star Trek exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum

I make no secret of the fact that I'm a fan