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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

Prickles and Tickles

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Hugh Hayden || Hedges, 2019
Gabriela Corretjer-Contreras || Llevatelo To’No Me Deje Na, 2019 [detail]
Gabriela Corretjer-Contreras || Llevatelo To’No Me Deje Na, 2019 [detail]
Gabriela Corretjer-Contreras || Llevatelo To’No Me Deje Na, 2019 [detail]
Gabriela Corretjer-Contreras || Llevatelo To’No Me Deje Na, 2019 [detail]
Dorothea Tanning || Evening in Sedona, 1976 || Oil on canvas
Hugh Hayden || Hedges, 2019

Open Call: Group 2 @The_Shed [JUN 19 – AUG 25, 2019]

August 3rd, 2019

It’s all just a love contest || The Shed

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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, 2019 || Saint Abdullah and Daniel Cupcic
Poetry Slot Machine, 2019 || Saint Abdullah and Daniel Cupcic

”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.

The Forever Museum Archive: The Untitled/A Template for Portable Monuments, 2019 [detail] || Onyedika Chuke
The Forever Museum Archive: The Untitled/A Template for Portable Monuments, 2019 [detail] || Onyedika Chuke
The Forever Museum Archive: The Untitled/A Template for Portable Monuments, 2019 || Onyedika Chuke

Open Call: Group 2 @The_Shed [JUN 19 – AUG 25, 2019]

August 3rd, 2019

Manitoga || The Woodland

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”Over 70 years ago, Russel and Mary Wright acquired an abandoned quarry and surrounding hillside in the Lower Hudson Valley, and he slowly restored this land to a place of extraordinary beauty. Inspired by the legacy of the Wappinger people, the ancestral residents of the area, Wright called the emerging vision for these 75 acres “Manitoga” or Place of Great Spirit.”

Although the many elements of the garden are familiar—house, terraces, parking lot, trellis, and paths—nothing is conventional. Wright’s integrating vision changed all the familiar components, blending the built elements and the natural landscape together so that each was enriched, enhanced, and transformed by the other. Just as the house is interwoven with the site, the hillside is connected by views to its larger context of the Hudson River Valley, and the visitors themselves are involved in an intimate and unfolding relationship to the place.” [source]

The Russel Wright Design Center

Garrison, N.Y.

July 28th, 2019