Think beyond the Louvre: Four museums to put on your bucket list

Ben Woolfitt has been a vital a part of the Toronto artwork scene because the 1970s. Now, he’s kicking off 2021 with “Ben Woolfitt: Rhythms and Sequence,” a significant solo present of summary drawings on the AGO — and itching to get again out into the world to go to a few of his favorite artwork collections. Till that day comes, we requested him to share his prime artwork pilgrimages.

The Frick Assortment, New York

“I dwell in New York six months of the yr, so the Frick must be on the record. It’s not the largest assortment, but it surely’s one of the extremely constant collections there’s. It has one of many biggest Francisco Goyas of all time, two of absolutely the biggest Johannes Vermeers’, and a load of J. M. W. Turners. I had my very own college for a lot of years and one of many good issues about taking college students to New York was taking them to the Frick, as a result of it units a tempo on how good portray can truly be.”

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Tate Britain, London

“Everybody’s going to know the Tate Fashionable, which is great, however Tate Britain has one thing that probably 99 per cent of individuals wouldn’t get to see: the Turner watercolours. Turner did roughly 20,000 works, and so they have containers and containers of those. They was on the British Museum, and to see them you needed to have a reference from a health care provider or a lawyer, however now you possibly can simply make an appointment. They’re magnificent.”

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Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris

“Everybody goes to the Louvre, however that is one other gem that folks wouldn’t all the time have a look at. The L’Orangerie has been not too long ago renovated and it accommodates eight of the big Monet Water Lilies, that are nice masterpieces. They’re curved, two to a few panels every and about six ft tall. They’re simply unbelievable. I by no means go to Paris with out going there. It’s completely past expectations.”

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SFMoMA, San Francisco

“San Francisco is such a phenomenal metropolis, and it’s all the time a delight to be there, however SFMoMA has not too long ago been renovated and it put them on the map as a significant West Coast museum. They’ve a significant assortment of Ellsworth Kelly work, three or 4 Gerhard Richters, and a group of works by Christopher Wilmarth, who I regard as one of many crucial up to date sculptors. Plus, they’ve received a significant images part and an entire room devoted to Alexander Calder sculptures.”

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