Edvard Munch always makes a strong impression but, in this case, the same can be said about the host building. This is Met Breuer, built in 1966 and named after its Brutalist architect Marcel Breuer, who designed it to house the Whitney Museum – and so it did until 2015, when the Whitney moved to its current location in downtown Manhattan, and this beautiful concrete ”inverted ziggurat” was leased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Artwork from “Delirious Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980”, an exhibition running in parallel to Edvard Munch’s “Between the Clock and the Bed”.
Credits:
Cob II, 1977-80 by Nancy Grossman
Wood, leather, painted horn, lacquer, lead
13/3, 1981 by Sol LeWitt
Painted balsa wood
Beginning Study for Changes and Communication, 1978 by Alfred Jensen
Oil on canvas
Three Mirror Vortex, 1965 by Robert Smithson
Stainless steel, three mirrors
My Father Pledged Me a Sword, 1975, by Anselm Kiefer
Watercolour, gouache, coloured pencil and ballpoint pen on paper
Met Breuer, 945 Madison Avenue, Manhattan
December 28th, 2017
The Humble Fabulist 