Hey guys! I wanted to post a nifty 1 minute or so long video that gives an overview of the collection! There is also a few segues into the space so we can see how things are oriented in the space.
Have fun!
-Rebekkah
Month: May 2015
Walking Tour of Whitney
Hey, the jazz intro is a little rough but the tour itself is really great! Nice way to be introduced to the museum and understand the layout.
Julie – check out where he introduces the Borofsky piece.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QKswWXlIPMo
Garth&Pierre
Museum Without Walls
Here’s a neat app that showcases public art works that can be found throughout the city streets. It also has info on the artists, pieces, neighborhoods, and you can listen to podcasts featuring artists, architects, and curators.
http://www.culturenow.org/smart_phone_apps
http://www.culturenow.org/map&zoom=11&latLng=40.7619,-73.9501
-Hannah
Simon Denny Comes to MoMA PS1
Here is a short article about the artist I will be presenting on, Simon Denny, and his exhibition at MoMA PS1.
Ideas Worth Spreading: Simon Denny Comes to MoMA PS1 | ARTnews.
-Hannah
Chelsea Galleries!
Hey, here’s a link to a site I found that lists all the shows occurring in Chelsea! This should help us research, decide, group up, and plan what galleries we would like to see that day.. I know I’m partial to the Marjorie Strider exhibit.
http://artforum.com/guide/country=US&place=new-york&show=active&district=Chelsea
MoMA PS1
Samara Golden: The Flat Side of the Knife
On view October 26, 2014–September 7, 2015
Los Angeles-based artist Samara Golden (American, b. 1973) creates immersive installations that explore what she calls the sixth dimension, where a multitude of pasts, presents, and futures exist concurrently. For The Flat Side of the Knife, Golden presents her largest installation to date, filling the double-height of MoMA PS1’s Duplex Gallery with staircases, beds, couches, lamps, musical instruments, video, and sound.
http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/390
Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing #370
Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007) executed drawings by hand throughout his life; in 1968 he extricated his work from the confines of the frame and transferred it directly to the wall. The wall compositions were designed for limited duration and maximum flexibility within a broad range of architectural settings. Initially executed by drafters, these works in their finished state were most often slated for destruction. A seminal practitioner of Conceptual Art, LeWitt emphasized the creative idea that generates a work of art, as opposed to the work’s material existence. “For each work of art that becomes physical,” he wrote, “there are many variations that do not.”
Sol LeWitt’s 1982 Wall Drawing #370: Ten Geometric Figures (including right triangle, cross, X, diamond) with three-inch parallel bands of lines in two directions was installed at the Museum over a period of four weeks. The drawing (a detail of which is at left) will be on view in its complete state through January 3, 2016, when it will be painted over
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http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/sol-lewitt
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans
Book for Architects
Wolfgang Tillmans’s installation Book for Architects (2014) is on view at the Metropolitan Museum for the first time since its debut at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Over a period of ten years, Tillmans (German, born 1968) photographed buildings in thirty-seven countries on five continents to produce Book for Architects. The 450 photographs are presented in a site-specific, two-channel video installation projected onto perpendicular walls.
http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/wolfgang-tillmans
Fatal Attraction
Piotr Uklański Selects from the Met Collection
This installation of works from the permanent collection was organized by the New York–based artist Piotr Uklański (born Poland, 1968), whose photographs are on view in the current exhibition Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklański Photographs. His chosen theme is Eros and Thanatos—the intertwined concepts of life force and death wish that Sigmund Freud interpreted as warring within each individual and within Western civilization as a whole. Although long since discredited as psychological truth, Eros and Thanatos is a hardy cultural construct—from the quintessentially French description of climax as “la petite morte” to Richard Wagner’s “Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde to Woody Allen’s Love and Death.
http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/piotr-uklanski-selects
Basquiat
April 3–August 23, 2015
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor
Brooklyn-born artist Jean-Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history. The first major exhibition of the artist’s notebooks, Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks features 160 pages of these rarely seen documents, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat_notebooks/
Check out the movie on Netflix