That the first-ever retrospective of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's architecture shows a true genius at work.
The Met presents the first-ever retrospective of the American artist's works in the medium, whose raw physicality can rival his output in steel.
The Arsenal, a hip exhibition space in the Old Town that's part of the state museum network, recently mounted the first-ever retrospective of Latvian art after World War II.
Nearly 90 years after Marc Chagall's first retrospective at the Galerie Barbazanges-Hodebert in Paris, 150 of his works will appear in "Chagall," his first-ever retrospective in Spain.
"It's pretty extraordinary to imagine this rather small woman, 157 centimeters tall or so, doing these huge paintings," said Iris Müller-Westermann Müller-Westermannnthenational art at the Moderna, whicuratorhofinternational Klint: artioneer of atsthection," the first-ever retrospective of the Swedish painter (1862-1944), through Moderna
For all his influence — in addition to his 80 years of art making, he has taught artists including Cy Twombly, Tom Wesselmann, Eva Hesse, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko and Donald Judd — the show is his first-ever retrospective in his adopted hometown.
And thereby hangs the tale of new exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, the first-ever retrospective of Deas's work, assembled by an art history professor, Carol C. Clark, who found herself compelled by the art, and the story of Deas's life, and finally by the hunt for his lost works.
This thought came to me as whimsy, and stayed as conviction, at the Prado, in Madrid, which has just opened the second-ever retrospective (the first was in Venice, in 1937) of Jacopo Comin, who was also known as Robusti, and called Tintoretto, or "Little Dyer," after his father's profession.
In 2014, the Whitney in New York put on the first-ever retrospective of Koons' work — the first, because achieving the technology needed to present his work properly was so formidable.
