Tag: sculpture

Captivated at the Michener Art Museum

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Outdoors

  • Barry Johnston || King Lear, 1985. Bronze [detail]
  • Barry Johnston || King Lear, 1985. Bronze
  • Barry Johnston || King Lear, 1985. Bronze [detail]
  • Barry Johnston || King Lear, 1985. Bronze [detail]
  • Greg Wyatt || Wind God, 1983. Bronze (Background: George Trivellini || Empire, 1982. Stainless steel)
  • Greg Wyatt || Wind God, 1983. Bronze [detail]
  • Greg Wyatt || Wind God, 1983. Bronze [detail]
  • Greg Wyatt || Wind God, 1983. Bronze [detail]
  • Barbara Lekberg || Sea Wind II, 1988. Bronze

Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

February 16th, 2020

I Set Before You This Day || George R. Anthonisen

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This work, part of the James Michener Museum collection, was created to honour Holocaust survivors and those who risked their lives to protect them from the Nazis during WWII. In all honesty, I didn’t mind the ephemeral intervention (by an unknown ‘artist’) – on the contrary, I thought it was harmless, and quite endearing.

  • George R. Anthonisen, I Set Before You This Day, 1979-87 – Bronze

    ”I call on heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; thereofre, choose life, that you and your descendants may live…” – Deuteronomy 30:19

James Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA

February 16th, 2020

Treasure Hunting || Princeton University Art Museum

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A walk through centuries and civilisations.

  • Spirit tomb guardian, mid-8th century – China [detail]
  • Spirit tomb guardian, China, Tang dynasty, 618-907 [detail]
  • Green-glazed horse, China, Eastern Han dynasty, 25-220
  • Xochipala figurines, Guerrero, Mexico. 400 B.C. – A.D. 200
  • Xochipala figurines, Guerrero, Mexico. 400 B.C. – A.D. 200
  • Xochipala figurines, Guerrero, Mexico. 400 B.C. – A.D. 200
  • Guanyin seated in royal-ease pose, about 1250. China, Southern Song dynasty, 1127-1279
  • Tomb figurines, early 6th century. China, Period of Disunity, 220-589
  • Tomb figurines, early 6th century. China, Period of Disunity, 220-589
  • Ganku, Edo period, 1615-1868 – Tiger and Bamboo, hanging scroll
  • Kurumba artist, Burkina Faso – Headdress, early 20th century [detail]
  • Four Kneeling Musicians, 7th century. Tang dynasty, 618-907
  • Carlo Portelli da Loro || Child, Infant John, and Saint Margaret, 1545–50
  • Jean-Léon Gérôme || Napoleon in Egypt, 1867-68
  • Claude Monet || The Houses of Parliament, Seagulls, 1903
  • Fra Angelico || The Penitent Saint Jerome, 1419-20
  • Frederic, Lord Leighton || After Vespers, 1871

Princeton, NJ

February 15th, 2020

Art to lift the spirits

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I think we can all use a booster

  • Frank Lloyd Wright || The San Francisco Building. Project, 1913
  • Frances Stark || Chorus Line, 2008. Cut-and-pasted printed and coloured papers on paper
  • Daniel Grataloup || Urban Proposal with Multi Thin-Shell Capsules. Project, 1974
  • Sonja Sekula || The Town of the Poor, 1951. Oil on canvas
  • Florine Stettheimer || Procession: Zizim of Persia, Agnes of Bourganeuf, the Unicorn, and Pierre d’Aubusson. Costume design for artist’s ballet Orphée of the Quat-z-arts, c. 1912
  • Florine Stettheimer || Family Portrait II, 1933. Oil on canvas
  • Florine Stettheimer || Portrait of My Mother, 1925. Oil on canvas
  • Hilma af Klint || The Dove No. 2, Series UW, Group IX, 1925. Oil on canvas
  • Metastadt-Planungsgesellschaft, est. 1969
    Richard Dietrich – Bernd Steigerwald
    Metastadt-Bausystem (Metacity Building System), 1965-72

MoMA New York

December 8th, 2019

Art that moves me no end

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Aleah Chapin @ Flowers || Richard Serra @ Gagosian

  • Aleah Chapin || Turning (Self-Portrait), 2019 || Oil on panel
  • Aleah Chapin ||Splitting the Silence, 2018 || Oil on canvas
  • Aleah Chapin || And it Caught Fire, 2019 || Oil on canvas
  • Aleah Chapin || We Held the Mountains on Our Shoulders, 2017 || Oil on canvas
  • Aleah Chapin || Deborah, 2019 || Oil on panel
  • Aleah Chapin || Our Voices are Still Singing on the Margins, 2019 || Oil on canvas
  • Aleah Chapin || Max, 2018 || Oil on linen
  • Richard Serra
  • Richard Serra || Combined and Separated, 2019 [detail]
  • Richard Serra || Nine, 2019
  • Richard Serra || Nine, 2019
  • Richard Serra || Inverted, 2019

Chelsea Gallery Walk

September 21st, 2019

Anselm Kiefer

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Dark || Stark || Emotional || Intense. Art that will stop you in your tracks.

Images from the Anselm Kiefer long-term exhibition:

die Schechina (Sefiroth), 2010
Painted resin dress, glass shards, steel, numbered glass discs, and wire in inscribed glass and steel vitrine

Engel-Sturz (The Fall of the Angels), 2010
Painted cotton dresses, wire, steel frame, glass pane, and oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac, clay on canvas in inscribed glass and steel vitrine

Jakobs Traum (Jacob’s Dream), 2010
Lead ladder, painted cotton dresses, wire, resin fern, and oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac, clay on canvas in inscribed glass and steel vitrine

Étroits sont les vaisseaux (Narrow are the Vessels), 2002 (detail)
concrete, steel, lead and earth

The Women of the Revolution (Les Femmes de la Révolution), 1992/2013 (detail)
Lead beds: dimensions variable

Winterwald (Winter Forest), 2010 (detail)
Oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac, ash, thorn bushes, synthetic teeth, and snakeskin on canvas in glass and steel frames

Velimir Chlebnikov, 2004 (detail)
30 paintings: oil, emulsion, acrylic, lead and mixed media on canvas

MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
September 2nd, 2019