Open Call: Group 2 @The_Shed [JUN 19 – AUG 25, 2019]
August 3rd, 2019
Prickles and Tickles
Tag: art
It’s all just a love contest || The Shed
Launched as part of The Shed’s inaugural year program, Open Call was a large-scale commissioning program for early-career NYC-based artists.
”Poetry Slot Machine rewards participants with poems by 14h-century Persian poet Hafiz instead of the chance winning of money. Participants pull the handle to reveal a set of randomized passages from Hafiz’s poetry, traditionally read for guidance for the future.”
This was my reward.
Open Call: Group 2 @The_Shed [JUN 19 – AUG 25, 2019]
August 3rd, 2019
Cedar Grove, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site
If he who has travelled and observed the skies of other climes will spend a few months on the banks of the Hudson, he must be constrained to acknowledge that for variety and magnificence American skies are unsurpassed.
Thus spoke Thomas Cole, who was born and grew up in England, but once discovered the beauty of the Catskills he remained forever faithful – so much so, that he went on to found America’s first major art movement, the Hudson River School.
Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, N.Y.
July 26th, 2019
This incredible art space hidden in plain view
On the ground floor of the WIOX 91.3 FM, a community radio station that is entirely supported and run by local talent. We are forever thankful to the man who, seeing us peering through the windows, opened up the doors and gave us a tour of his work space & art, took us upstairs to the radio floor, and allowed us to take photos.
You can listen to WIOX 91.3 FM here.
Roxbury, N.Y.
July 23rd, 2019
Union Church of Pocantico Hills
Less than a mile from the Kykuit estate sits this unassuming little church, we would have completely bypassed but for an article listing it as one the ”surprising places to see art in the Hudson Valley”.
And even though after reading the article it was no longer a surprise, we were still awestruck the moment we set foot inside, instantly surrounded by light flowing through Marc Chagall’s nine stained-glass windows, topped by “La Rosace” (the Rose Window), Henri Matisse’s last work.
We learned that “La Rosace” was designed as one of Matisse’s colored paper “cut-outs” and was completed just a few days before the artist’s death. Matisse died before the window could be fabricated, but his daughter, Marguerite Duthuit, discovered the completed paper maquette at Matisse’s home and took charge of the commission, which she invested with great emotional significance as her father’s last creation. “La Rosace” was dedicated to the memory of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller on Mother’s Day, 1956. [source]
Photography inside the church was strictly prohibited, but you can see the windows and hear their story by taking a virtual tour inside Union Church of Pocantico Hills.
Union Church on Pocantico Hills
Tarrytown, N.Y.
July 19th, 2019
At home with Hopper
Where he was born and grew up, drew his first impressions and sketches, pictures that were imprinted on his memory working to make him the artist he became.
On the ground floor, an additional exhibition of works by Alastair Noble, inspired by Hopper’s boyhood fascination with yachts and other sailing boats; an installation of paper boats and poetic messages, a weightless flotilla flowing across the gallery.
Nyack, N.Y.
July 17th, 2019
No end to art
Just the end of our walk in one of the largest art museums of contemporary art we’d seen so far, one that leaves breathing space for the art to expand and feel totally at home, as if it were borne to be there.
François Morellet, “No End Neon,” 1990/2017
Louise Bourgeois, Crouching Spider, 2003.
Robert Smithson, Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis), 1969
July 15th, 2019
Barriers
Top:
Installation by Dan Flavin (untitled, 1970), a work that was conceived as an edition of three, but only two were produced. The other one is installed in Donald Judd Foundation, 101 Spring Street Space, in New York City, the first building Judd owned, where he worked and lived with his family. It was created specifically to illuminate the family’s bedroom, at a time that the two artists and friends were working so closely together that, for a while, they had become Flavin & Judd.
The gorgeous windows behind Flavin’s installation are part of Robert Irwin’s design for Dia: Beacon, Beacon Project (1999–2003) that conceived the museum as a work of art itself.
Bottom:
Just barriers, artfully stacked.
July 15th, 2019
The Humble Fabulist 