It works.
Manhattan, N.Y.
May 26th, 2019
Song for Rain
Tag: manhattan
Reich Richter Pärt
Reich Richter Pärt, an immersive live performance and exhibition in two parts—one conceived by composer Steve Reich and painter Gerhard Richter, the other by Richter and composer Arvo Pärt—explored the shared sensory language of visual art and music. The Richter Pärt partnership built on a concept developed by Alex Poots and Hans Ulrich Obrist for the Manchester International Festival and featured a live performance of Pärt’s captivating choral composition surrounded by Richter’s new work, including wallpaper and three jacquard tapestries. [source: The Shed] & [short video: Gerhard Richter]
The Shed, Apr 6 – Jun 2, 2019
April 13th, 2019
A Random Day
In pre-Covid-19 Hudson Yards. When eating out, shopping and getting bored were luxuries taken for granted.
April 13th, 2019
Τα πάντα ῥεῖ
Everything flows
Hello 2021
[moving image from The Shed, April 13th, 2019]
They live among us
Kicking 2020’s ass and making sure it never happens again!
Photos from April 8th, 2019
Nereid
Sculpture by Rene Paul Chambellan, Rockefeller Center Channel Gardens
April 8th, 2019
Joan Miró || Birth of the World
“You and all my writer friends have given me much help and improved my understanding of many things,” Joan Miró told the French poet Michel Leiris in the summer of 1924, writing from his family’s farm in Montroig, a small village nestled between the mountains and the sea in his native Catalonia. The next year, Miró’s intense engagement with poetry, the creative process, and material experimentation inspired him to paint The Birth of the World.
In this signature work, Miró covered the ground of the oversize canvas by applying paint in an astonishing variety of ways that recall poetic chance procedures. He then added a series of pictographic signs that seem less painted than drawn, transforming the broken syntax, constellated space, and dreamlike imagery of avant-garde poetry into a radiantly imaginative and highly inventive form of painting. He would later describe this work as “a sort of genesis,” and his Surrealist poet friends titled it The Birth of the World. [source: MoMA]
The exhibition ran between February-June 2019 and featured artwork from the Museum of Modern Art’s collection of Miró’s works, which is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. However, the most comprehensive selection of Miró’s oeuvre actually on view has to be that of the Fundació Joan Miró, in Barcelona, a dedicated space created by Joan Miró himself with the idea of making art accessible to all.
MoMA, New York City
April 4th, 2019
Real || Surreal
Colour palleting with:
A Gallery Visitor
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Dada Head, 1920
Painted wood with glass beads on wire
Salvador Dalí
Retrospective Bust of a Woman, 1933
(some elements reconstructed 1970)
Painted porcelain, bread, corn, feathers, paint on paper, beads, ink stand, sand, and two pens
@MoMA
April 4th, 2019
Last Xmas
We were at Ginny’s for a gospel brunch. Because we could.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas with the beautiful young voices of Sing Harlem Choir paying tribute to New York!
December 22nd, 2019
What is Good Design?
Elevating the functional to a timeless work of art.
“Is there art in a broomstick? Yes, says Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, if it is designed both for usefulness and good looks.” This quote, from a 1953 Time magazine review of one of MoMA’s mid-century Good Design exhibitions, gets to the heart of a question the Museum has been asking since its inception: What is good design and how can it enhance everyday life?
Featuring objects from domestic furnishings and appliances to ceramics, glass, electronics, transport design, sporting goods, toys, and graphics, The Value of Good Design explored the democratizing potential of design, beginning with MoMA’s Good Design initiatives from the late 1930s through the 1950s, which championed well-designed, affordable contemporary products. [source: MoMA]
The Value of Good Design
Feb 10–Jun 15, 2019
MoMA
April 4th, 2019
The Humble Fabulist 