Author: Barbara Pollitt

MAMC St. Etienne June 27 2026-Jan 3, 2027 France

Two exhibitions are featuring the work of Sari Dienes To Be Deciphered: Following the traces in the collections https://mamc.saint-etienne-metropole.fr/en/exhibition/be-deciphered                                                                         […]

Sari Dienes Psychadelic at Women Across America Eric Firestone Gallery May 12-July 11 2026

Shttps://www.artsy.net/artwork/sari-dienes-psychedelic Sari Dienes Psychadelic  Plaster print c.1950 15 1/2 × 17 1/4 in | 39.4 × 43.8 cm In 1949, Dienes worked with Stanley Hayter at the famed Atelier 17 at the New School. Printmaking techniques would also become an integral part of her practice, even when making unique works. Through Hayter, who was experimenting with […]

Women Across America 1945-1979 Eric Firestone Gallery May 12 2006

https://www.ericfirestonegallery.com/exhibitions/women-across-america-1945-to-1979   Eric Firestone Gallery is pleased to present Women Across America: 1945–1979, an exhibition that showcases connections between women across the country in the post-World War II period. This exhibition highlights the rich tradition of abstraction within the period across various mediums. Taking inspiration from William Gerdts’s sprawling Art Across America: Two Centuries of […]

Sari Dienes Night Find New Book

New Catalog Night Find published by Eric Firestone in Commemoration of the Exhibition at Eric Firestone Gallery NYC Feb. 4- March 21  40 Great Jones Street.   https://www.ericfirestonegallery.com/publications/sari-dienes-night-eyes

On the Street Auf der Strasse April 10-August 31 2025 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

https://kunstmuseum.li/?page=21&&lan=en               Cloudy Sidewalk 1970.                        Manhole Wild 1 1955                         DWS c. 1953 Curator Christiane Meyer-Stoll presents a cohort of artists known for experimentation and presentation of work utilizing the street as a performance venue, subject, and happening.  

Fresh Window: The Art of Display and Display of Art Museum Tinguely Basel, Switzerland

Exhibitions Switzerland 03  December 2024 11 May 2025   https://www.museumspass.com/en/exhibition/fresh-window For decades, there have been close links between the histories of art and shop window display. Besides Jean Tinguely, many other artists have designed pioneering window displays. Conversely, window displays frequently feature as a motif in artworks or serve as a stage for performances and […]

Sari Dienes at Kunstmuseum Basel 2024

Snowflake Circle By Sari Dienes c. 1954 Screenbark by Sari Dienes c. 1953 Part of the Kunstmuseum Basel permanent collection, currently on display https://kunstmuseumbasel-ch.translate.goog/de/sammlung/kunst-ab-1950?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Fragments of Memory Menil Drawing Institute

           Installation Menil Drawing Center                                Shell Eye by Sari Dienes c. 1949                    Peterboro by Sari Dienes 1953                                    Balcony by Sari Dienes  c. 1953                                                                                                                                   Letterbox by Sari Dienes c. 1975 Fragments of Memory https://www.menil.org/exhibitions/380-fragments-of-memory Sep 20, 2024 – Jan 26, 2025 Menil Drawing Institute Fragments of Memory, a selection of works from […]

MoMA: New On View Women’s Work 4th floor

https://www.moma.org/calendar/galleries/5639   Join us to celebrate Sari Dienes’ Soho Sidewalk c. 1953 on view 4th floor 410. Ongoing exhibition: “These are scores ready for you to do.” This sentence introduces Womens Work, a 1975 publication highlighting experimental art by women artists. It was edited by the artist Alison Knowles and the musician Annea Lockwood, who […]

A New Book and a Museum Show for Sari Dienes

  Mark Bloch’s article for White Hot Magazine features July 2023 “The Best Art In The World” https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/museum-show-for-sari-dienes/5895   A New Book and a Museum Show for Sari Dienes Sari Dienes: Incidental Nature, installation view, Boca Raton Museum of Art. Photograph by Jacek Gancarz Book Launch for Sari Dienes: Who I Am?! Edited by Barbara Pollitt […]