Straight ahead
Sculptures:
Richard M. Miller || Diane Sitting, 1971
Minoru Niizuma || Hollow Sea, 1966
The Guest House, Williamstown, MA
August 31st, 2019
Tag: sculpture
Pond Lizards
Sculpture: Herbert Ferber || Reverse Curve, 1967-68
The Guest House, Williamstown, MA
August 31st, 2019
Skyscrapers & Art
United Nations Grounds
Created by the Russian painter and sculptor, Zurab Tsereteli, the sculpture commemorates the 1987 signing of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate – Range and Shorter – Range Nuclear Missiles (INF Treaty), and is in celebration of the 45 Session of the General Assembly. Created as a monument to peace, the sculpture is composed of parts of actual United States and Soviet missiles. The work depicts an allegorical St. George, one arm raised, as he drives a lance through a double headed dragon.
The dragon in the sculpture is not the mythological beast of the early Christian tradition, but the specter of nuclear war vanquished by the historic treaties between the Soviet Union and the United States. Accordingly the dragon is shown lying amid the broken pieces of Soviet SS-20 and U.S. Pershing missiles. Actual fragments of these weapons have been used in the sculpture.
Bronze monument consisting of a multitude of figures on a large ship (23′ long) with three masts and two gangplanks. Gift of Ireland. 
The statue ‘Mir’ (Peace), one of the symbols of the United Nations Headquarters in New York, is the work of the renowned Croatian sculptor Antun Augustinčić (1900, Klanjec – 1979, Zagreb). The sculptor himself came to the United States in 1952 to choose and propose a UN ground site for the 16’ high bronze statue. 
“Kusikawsay” means “peaceful and happy life” in the Quechua language. The sculpture, a gift of Colombia, is made of seven tonnes of melted ammunition surrendered by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) as part of the peace agreement with the government in 2016. Made by Chilean artist Mario Opazo, it represents an indigenous canoe that comes out of the ground like a projectile. 
United Nations Grounds, New York City
August 27th, 2019
Living in a Bubble
Pertinent
Randolph Rogers || Nydia, 1861 & The Lost Pleiad, c. 1874-75 || Marble
August 25th, 2019
Birded!
USS Maine National Monument, Merchants’ Gate, Central Park
August 11th, 2019
Geometric Solids
July 15th, 2019
Cardboard Yoga
Charlotte Posenenske || Series DW Vierkantrohre (Square Tubes) [Angular pieces], 1967/2018
”Before turning away from art production in 1968 in favor of a career in sociology, Charlotte Posenenske exhibited widely alongside peers such as Hanne Darboven, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt, with whom she shared an interest in seriality. However, her work is distinguished by its radically open-ended nature. Embracing reductive geometry, repetition, and industrial fabrication, she developed a form of mass-produced sculptural Minimalism that addressed the pressing socioeconomic concerns of the decade by circumventing the art market and rejecting established formal and cultural hierarchies.
Mass production and variability are also at the heart of Posenenske’s subsequent works. Series D consists of six shapes in galvanized sheet steel. While these elements resemble standard ventilation ducts, the tubes are nonetheless custom-made according to the artist’s instructions and sketches. Shortly after conceptualizing Series D, Posenenske created Series DW, a variant with only four shapes produced from lightweight corrugated cardboard. A ready-made material, cardboard nonetheless represents a departure from the aesthetics of the steel tubes, which are in effect almost indistinguishable, in form and provenance, from the functional elements that they refer to. Larger but more manageable than their sharp-edged steel counterparts, the Series DW components are also easier to manipulate.” [source]
July 15th, 2019
Windows 10
On a Steel Surface
Richard Serra’s gigantic Torqued Ellipses found their ideal home in this gallery that used to be a railway depot when Dia:Beacon was still a Nabisco box printing factory.
July 15th, 2019
All Eyes and Ears
Painted steel and wood
Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley, where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky. Since 1960, Storm King has been dedicated to stewarding the hills, meadows, and forests of its site and surrounding landscape. Building on the visionary thinking of its founders, Storm King supports artists and some of their most ambitious works. Changing exhibitions, programming, and seasons offer discoveries with every visit. [source]
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
July 13th, 2019
Calculated Risk
Menashe Kadishman
Suspended, 1997
Weathering steel
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
July 13th, 2019
The Humble Fabulist 