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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Max Weber: Art and Life Are Not Apart

Max Weber, Italian Pitcher, 1921

Jan 19 – Apr 5, 2024
390 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Max Weber was born in Bialystok, Poland, in 1881, but when he was 10 his family resettled in Brooklyn, where young Max quickly fell in love with art. He matriculated at the Pratt Institute before teaching throughout the country, all the while saving money to study in France. When Weber got there, he mixed with the modernists Henri Rousseau and Gertrude Stein. The experience was transformative for him, and also for art in America: when Weber sojourned home, he introduced Cubism to the country. This exhibition explores Weber’s artistic travels through Cubism, Expressionism, and Fauvism. —Lucy Horowitz