Sustaining Fellows

Your Passport to Travel M A RC H 3 1 – A P RIL 3, 201 7

Weekender: Asian Art in San Francisco M AY 1 5 – 2 1 , 2 0 1 7

Tarsila do Amaral: Reinventing Modern Art in Brazil

M A RC H 3 1 – A P RIL 3, 201 7

Weekender: Asian Art in San Francisco

TRIP HI GHLI GHTS

W I T H TAO WANG , P R ITZK E R CHAIR OF AS IA N A RT A ND CURATO R O F C H I NE S E ART

Dear Friends, As trip hosts, we invite you to join us and our dear friend Tao Wang, Pritzker Chair of Asian Art and curator of Chinese art, in San Francisco this spring for a rare opportunity to visit the finest Asian and modern art treasures the city has to offer. Whether you have toured the beautiful City by the Bay in the past or are eager to visit for the first time, this trip offers once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to discover San Francisco’s sensational art scene. While our personal ties to the city run deep, we cannot imagine a better way to revisit and explore its art scene than with Tao as our distinguished curatorial guide. As you may know, the Art Institute has an increased focus on Asian art—opportunities abound to expand our Asian collections to equal our strong Western holdings. This trip will open your eyes to the Art Institute’s own strengths in Asian art through the lens of the places we will visit. Our itinerary will take us from the Asian Art Museum to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, from private collections to notable artists’ studios. Along the way, we will dine at the finest restaurants and enjoy the insider access and outstanding five-star service that is synonymous with Sustaining Fellows travel. We are delighted to share this adventure with Sustaining Fellows and Gold and Silver Level members of the Asian Art Council, and we hope you will join us! Warmest wishes,

Ann Grube

John Grube

Trip Host Trustee, Art Institute of Chicago Chair, Sustaining Fellows Membership Committee President, Asian Art Council

Trip Host

FRI DAY, M ARC H 31

S U N DAY, APR IL 2

• Check in to the St. Regis San Francisco, where we will stay for the duration of our trip.

• Visit artists Zheng Chongbin and Li Huayi in their studios. Chongbin explores the intersections of the Chinese ink tradition and Western abstract painting, extending his investigations to video and installation. Huayi is a master painter working in the traditional Chinese style, creating landscape portraits of mountains, trees, and misty vistas.

• Kick things off with a reception and viewing of a superb private collection that includes significant holdings of Chinese calligraphy, with pieces by some of the best-known figures in Chinese art history. • Enjoy a welcome dinner hosted by Ann and John Grube, trip hosts.

SATURDAY, APR IL 1 • Take a private guided tour of the Asian Art Museum with a welcome from director Jay Xu before public hours. The Asian Art Museum houses one of the most comprehensive Asian art collections in the world, with more than 18,000 works in its permanent collection, some as much as 6,000 years old. Following a highlights tour, go behind the scenes and preview five bronzes that will be featured in an upcoming 2018 Art Institute exhibition. • View an impressive private collection of Japanese art and antiques, including works from the Edo and Momoyama periods, as well as wooden sculptures dating from the 13th and 14th centuries. • Visit an auction house renowned for offering works of art that represent the richness and breadth of Chinese ceramics and artwork, as well as Japanese, Korean, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian art. Hear from the experts about why San Francisco offers such a vibrant and international market in Asian art.

• Explore artists’ studios and special exhibitions at the Minnesota Street Project, three warehouses designed to retain and strengthen San Francisco’s contemporary art community and develop an internationally recognized arts destination. • Conclude the day with a tour of a private art collection of exquisite contemporary artworks. • Celebrate a memorable trip over a farewell dinner.

MO N DAY, APR IL 3 • Go behind the scenes at the newly renovated San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which re-opened to the public on May 14, 2016, after a three-year redesign and expansion by international architectural firm Snøhetta. Enjoy a curator-led tour, followed by lunch in the museum’s flagship restaurant In Situ, led by Chef Corey Lee, recipient of three Michelin stars. • After lunch, return to the hotel before departing independently for home.

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Tarsila do Amaral: Reinventing Modern Art in Brazil

TRIP HI GHLI GHTS W EDN ES DAY, M AY 1 7 • Take an exclusive, curator-led tour of Pinacoteca do Estado, one of the most important art museums in the country. • View two excellent private collections of modern and contemporary Latin American art and toast our last night in São Paulo.

W I T H ST E P H ANI E D ’ALE S SAN D RO, GARY C . A ND FRA NC ES COMER CURATO R O F I NT E R N AT ION AL MOD E R N A RT

Dear Sustaining Fellows, I invite you on a journey to Brazil, where we will explore the life and legacy of the modern artist Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973). Known simply as Tarsila, this Brazilian painter profoundly changed the direction of Latin American art—as greatly as Picasso influenced the course of European modernism. Despite her pivotal role in the rise of Brazilian modernism, Tarsila still remains unknown to many in the United States. Our trip will introduce you to the vibrant culture and artistic traditions of Brazil by tracing Tarsila’s work and that of her peers in advance of the Art Institute’s October 2017 exhibition Tarsila do Amaral: Reinventing Modern Art in Brazil. The first-ever solo show of her work in North America, our exhibition promises to be groundbreaking and revelatory. We will begin our tour in São Paulo, then head to Rio de Janeiro, exploring the emergence and rise of Brazilian modernism through the diverse work of Tarsila and her contemporaries: sculptor Victor Brecheret; painter, engraver, and sculptor Lasar Segall; architect Oscar Niemeyer; and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, to name a few. Private curator-led tours of museums, exclusive visits to the finest private collections and studios of contemporary artists influenced by Tarsila, and a sunset caipirinha or two will top off our adventure.

THU R S DAY, M AY 1 8

Tarsila do Amaral, Setting Sun (Sol Poente), 1929. Geneviéve and Jean Boghici, Rio de Janeiro.

SÃO PAU LO MONDAY, M AY 1 5 • Arrive individually and check in to the Hotel Fasano. • Tour the Museu Lasar Segall, located in the artist’s former residence and studio. Then, visit the Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin in one of the oldest mansions of São Paulo. Klabin, an art collector and entrepreneur, collected more than 1,500 pieces of Brazilian, European, Oriental, African, and Pre-Colombian art, including luxury editions of books illustrated by some of the most important Brazilian modernist artists.

TUESDAY, M AY 1 6

I hope you will join me on this exceptional exploration of Tarsila and Brazilian modern art. Espero ansiosamente conhecê-lo em breve,

• View an incredible private collection that features several works by Tarsila. • Enjoy an evening at Michelin-starred Tuju, followed by a nightcap and choro, the first urban popular music genre of Brazil.

Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of International Modern Art

• Visit the iconic Museu de Arte São Paulo, designed by Lina Bo Bardi, then after lunch travel by plane to Rio de Janeiro. • Check in to Hotel Fasano, where we will stay for the remainder of our time in Brazil.

• View a private collection and toast our first night in Brazil overlooking the São Paulo skyline at dinner.

• Visit the Museu de Arte Brasileira before hours for a private, curator-led tour, and then take a special tour of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo with its renowned collection of modern and contemporary Brazilian art.

Stephanie D’Alessandro

• Take a before-hours, curator-led tour of Casa Modernista, completed in 1928 and considered one of the first modernist residences in Brazil, listed by the state government as a historical, artistic, and architectural memorial.

R IO DE JAN EIRO F R IDAY, M AY 1 9 • Explore a fantastic private collection of modern Brazilian art in the Ipanema neighborhood. • Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at the Museu de Arte Moderna, with a curator-led tour of the collection. • Visit the casa of Roberto Marinho and its collection, and then travel to the Pinakotheke Cultural in Botafogo to view works by Lasar Segall and Tarsila.

SAT U R DAY, M AY 20

S UN DAY, MAY 2 1

• Travel early to the east region of Rio to tour the Sítio Roberto Burle Marx with a noteworthy guide. This estate was once the home of Brazil’s most famous landscape architect, Roberto Burle Marx, and in his original farmhouse and studio you can see pieces by the talented designer.

• Tour the Jardim Botânico and visit neigh-

• Enjoy the afternoon at leisure after lunch.

borhood galleries, as well as the studio of artist Beatriz Milhazes.

• Dine at Rubaiyat Rio at the Jockey Club,

with a view of the Christ the Redeemer statue, the imperial palms of the Botanical Garden, and the Jockey Club’s famous track.

• Visit a stellar private collection to preview works by Tarsila that will be included in the upcoming Art Institute exhibition in 2017. • Celebrate a fantastic trip during a farewell

dinner at Oro.

M E E T T H E C URATO RS Tao Wang Pritzker Chair of Asian Art and curator of Chinese art Tao Wang, a naturalized British citizen who was born in China and educated in Kunming, Beijing, and London, joined the Art Institute of Chicago in April 2015. An expert in classical Chinese art, in particular early ritual bronzes, jades, and inscriptions, he also has a deep interest in contemporary art. Prior to joining the Art Institute, he was senior vice president and head of Chinese works of art at Sotheby’s New York, and taught Chinese art and archaeology at University College London and at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Stephanie D’Alessandro Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of International Modern Art Stephanie D’Alessandro began her career at the Art Institute in 1998 as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. She has overseen the installation of the collection in the Art Institute’s Modern Wing, is coordinator for the Modern Series, and curated the major exhibitions Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–17 (2010); Picasso and Chicago (2013); and Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938 (2014). She has contributed to numerous publications, especially on topics related to German art of the 1920s, including the Art Institute exhibition catalogue for Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016). Prior to joining the Art Institute, D’Alessandro was associate curator at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. She is currently at work on a comprehensive scholarly catalogue of the museum’s works by Henri Matisse (2017), a major project on Global Surrealism (2020), and the upcoming exhibition Tarsila do Amaral: Reinventing Modern Art in Brazil, which opens at the Art Institute of Chicago in October 2017.

BOOKI NG

Weekender: Asian Art in San Francisco Tour per person (assuming a shared room) .................................................. $3,931 Single supplement ...............................................................................................$700 The booking deadline is February 1, 2017, pending room availability. The Sustaining Fellows trip to San Francisco is based on a minimum of 15 travelers. All meals are included. Reservations are accepted on a first come, first served basis. To register, please contact Kathryn Covello at [email protected] or (212) 969-9410.

Tarsila do Amaral: Reinventing Modern Art in Brazil Tour per person (assuming a shared room) ................................................. $9,750 Single supplement ............................................................................................ $1,895 The booking deadline is February 1, 2017, pending room availability. The Sustaining Fellows trip to Brazil is based on a minimum of 15 travelers. All breakfasts, plus at least one lunch or dinner each day, and transfer from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro are included. Reservations are accepted on a first come, first served basis. To register, please visit artsandtravel.com/ aicbrazil or contact Arts & Travel at [email protected] or 1 (877) 761-7070.

TERMS AN D CO N DIT IO N S The tour is sold as described. There are no refunds for unused portions of these segments. The tour price is based on a minimum number of 15 travelers. If fewer than 15 travelers participate, a price supplement may apply and/or the itinerary may be adjusted. The Art Institute of Chicago strongly recommends that travelers purchase travel insurance. For more trip information and up-to-date travel news, as well as the full inclusions and exclusions, and terms and conditions of each trip, please visit artic.edu/sf-travel.

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