It’s been a fulfilling summer here at the Georgia Museum
of Art. We’ve had exhibitions come and go, interns who have started and
departed and events and parties throughout. As July winds down and August looms
around the corner, what can we expect from the GMOA this coming autumn? After
all of the amazing art in only a summer, what more can the museum show?
While our permanent collection
remains as impressive as ever in its cohesive survey of artists ranging from
Americans of the Roaring ‘20s to those of the Italian Renaissance, and Chakaia
Booker’s statues remain in our sculpture garden, GMOA has a few more tricks up
its sleeves that are bound to wow. We’re going to hit the ground running on the
very first day of August, as we’ll be installing George Beattie’s controversial
agriculture murals, which will be on display through Jan. 7, 2013. What else do
we have, you ask? On August 18, we’re
going to open not one, but three
exhibitions to the public. First, we have “Francisco de Goya's 'Disasters of War',” which features all 80 prints from the master's series. Second, we have “The Epic and the Intimate,” a
collection of French drawings dating all the way back to the late 1600s, on
loan from the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. Third, and
this should really knock your socks off, the GMOA has made a recent purchase,
and quite an incredible one at that, in “The New York Collection for Stockholm Portfolio,” a collection of prints compiled in the 1970s for a joint project
between the artists and engineers of New York and the Moderna Museet in
Stockholm, Sweden. The cherry on top that makes this acquisition so special?
The edition we purchased was an original publisher’s proof, meaning it was
never meant to go into stores with the other 300 copies. All of this is just in
August—this summer was just a taste of what we have in store. There’s plenty
more coming, so stick around!
