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The Guest House at Field Farm

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Home away from home

A Bauhaus-inspired house designed by Edwin Goodell, Jr. in 1948 for Lawrence and Eleanor Bloedel, avid modern art and furniture collectors of the time, it still is adorned by original artwork inside and out. But the best feature of this most remarkable Bed & Breakfast, is the tranquility it exudes: the gardens with a pond, the walking trails through pastures, a forest, the unobstructed views of Mt. Greylock in the background, everything about it seems to have been designed for calmness, a state of mind that anyone living in Midtown Manhattan so desperately seeks!

The Guest House, Williamstown, MA

August 31st, 2019

Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper

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Highlights

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti || Silence, 1870
  • Pablo Picasso || Head of a Young Boy, 1923
  • Edvard Munch || Moonlight, 1896
  • Käthe Kollwitz || The Widow I / The Volunteers || from the portfolio War, 1922-23
  • Edvard Munch || Eva Mudocci, 1903
  • Pablo Picasso || Nude Standing in Profile,1906
  • Tsuguharu Foujita || Portrait of a Girl with Cat, c. 1926
  • Amedeo Modigliani || Adolphe Basler, c. 1916
  • Egon Schiele || Male Nude (Self-Portrait), 1912

Brooklyn Museum

August 25th, 2019

Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion

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Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion was a retrospective of the work of the pioneering couturier, known for his futuristic creations and extensive licensing, which ultimately had a negative impact on the brand’s image (I remember growing up, the Cardin signature was omnipresent, from exclusive, out of my reach fashions, to cheap lighters and pens sold at the corner newspaper shop). The exhibition presented over 170 objects drawn from Cardin’s atelier and archive, which may sound like a lot, but was a mere fraction of the designer’s work over the decades.

Brooklyn Museum

August 25th, 2019

A Crack in Everything

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A visit to the Jewish Museum on the occasion of an exhibition devoted to the bard of Montreal; poetic and emotional, a little happy, a little sad and bittersweet, bringing back memories to some and bouts of nostalgia to others. It was suitably unphotographable but, luckily, there were more works by other Jewish artists around to ”save the day”.

Untitled (Tears), 2013 || Claire Fontaine
Claire Fontaine is a pseudonym that translates literally as ”clear fountain”. It may refer to Marcel Duchamp’s iconic 1917 Readymade sculpture Fountain, an inverted, signed urinal that is one of the founding works of radical modernism. ”Tears” is inspired by recorded memories of Ellis Island, which, beginning in 1892, welcomed (and also rejected) millions of people.
OY/YO, 2016 || Deborah Kass
Untitled, 1968 || Elaine Lustig Cohen
Book covers designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen
Untitled, 1969 || Elaine Lustig Cohen
Untitled || Elaine Lustig Cohen
Bob Dylan, 2007 || Abshalom Jac Lahav || From the series 48 Jews
Noam Chomsky 2007 || Abshalom Jac Lahav || From the series 48 Jews
Alan Greenspan, 2007 || Abshalom Jac Lahav || From the series 48 Jews
Monica Lewinsky, 2007 || Abshalom Jac Lahav || From the series 48 Jews

The Jewish Museum, Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, April through September 2019

August 17th, 2019

Treasures from Chatsworth

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  • François Boucher || A Young Woman, traditionally identified as Madame de Pompadour, 1752 || Black chalk with stumping and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, with touches of pastel
  • Pippin Drysdale || Constellation VII, 2018 || Set of eight porcelain sculptures made by the artist in Western Australia – sitting on a Louis XIV style gilt bronze-mounted brass and tortoiseshell inlaid boulle marquetry commode by Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen, Paris, c.1867
  • Pietro Tenerani || Psyche Abandoned, 1st half of the 19th century || Marble
  • Raffelle Monti || Veiled Vestal Virgin, c.1846-47 || White marble
  • Canaletto || Venice: A View of Santa Maria Salute and the Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Piazzetta, c.1729 || Oil on copper panel
  • Canaletto || Venice: A View of the Doge’s Palace and the Riva Degli Schiavoni from the Piazzetta, c.1729 || Oil on copper panel
  • John Singer Sargent || Evelyn, Duchess of Devonshire, 1902 || Oil on canvas
  • Michael Leonard || Lady with a Little Bird, 1981 (Portrait of the current Duchess)
  • Michael Leonard || Stoker and George (Portrait of the 12th Duke), 1981
    [The current Duke of Devonshire is known as Stoker]
  • Lucian Freud || Woman in a White Shirt, 1958-60 || Oil on canvas
  • Lucian Freud || Portrait of a Man, 1971-72 || Oil on canvas

Treasures from Chatsworth: The Exhibition, a rare chance to view some of the pieces comprising the legendary Chatsworth House Collection, was on show at Sotheby’s New York, in 2019.

August 11th, 2019