Mr. Dial's first career retrospective, " Hard Truths," opens at the museum in Indianapolis on Friday.
And it was the 2005 solo show, Thornton Dial In the 21st Century, and 2011 traveling retrospective, Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial, that brought the artist greater visibility.
His first retrospective show, "Uncertain Truth," opened in Taipei this April, showcasing a number of remarkable works that synthesize this young multimedia artist's journey over the course of the last five years.
(A retrospective called "The Brutal Truth" is currently at the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
When, moments later, under her exacting direction, her crew sets up a rickety array of antique mirrors on that beach, she establishes her retrospective view as a truth that's inseparable from the fictions of her imagination.
The artist's sensitivity to nuances of style and gesture informs the portraits in "Alice Neel: Painted Truths," a retrospective opening next month at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Listening to the older songs on your new retrospective, "Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage," I was unable to stop bouncing my leg.
MANIC / LOVE is the first part of two, of MANIC / LOVE / TRUTH / LOVE, a solo retrospective of artist Jordan Wolfson at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
It is interspersed with retrospective narratives unfolding police corruption and shocking truths in the North of England.
Michael Stipe directs two new videos for R.E.M.'s "We All Go Back to Where We Belong" off their retrospective collection R.E.M. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011.
