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Feel like dancing

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(But after wandering for hours in and out of the Met’s endless galleries, I do need to sit down).

Art:

1/
Joel Shapiro, 1941
Untitled, 2000-2001
Oil paint on cast aluminum

2/
Al Held, 1928-2005
Mercury Zone III, 1975
Acrylic on canvas

3/
Jennifer Bartlett, b. 1941
Five A.M., 1991-92
Oil on canvas

4/
Alex Katz, b. 1927
Red Coat, 1982
Oil on canvas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

February 17th, 2018

Tangled

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How my brain feels at the end of this week.

Art:

1/
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30),

2/
Monoceros, Ibram Lassaw
|ronze and manganese bronze fused over galvanized wire

3/
Untitled, Clyfford Still 
Oil on canvas

Kouros, Isamu Noguchi
Marble 

4/
Attic, 1949, by Willem de Kooning
Oil, enamel and newspaper transfer on canvas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

February 17th, 2018

Meditation

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Healing, following a brief panic attack last night, triggered by a close encounter with a giant cockroach, in the bathroom.

P.S.: a chilled beer can also help
P.S.1: the beast is dead

Spectrum V, 1969, by Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015)
Oil on canvas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

February 17th, 2018

Met Breuer

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Edvard Munch always makes a strong impression but, in this case, the same can be said about the host building. This is Met Breuer, built in 1966 and named after its Brutalist architect Marcel Breuer, who designed it to house the Whitney Museum – and so it did until 2015, when the Whitney moved to its current location in downtown Manhattan, and this beautiful concrete ”inverted ziggurat” was leased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Artwork from “Delirious Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980”, an exhibition running in parallel to Edvard Munch’s “Between the Clock and the Bed”.

 

Credits:

Cob II, 1977-80 by Nancy Grossman
Wood, leather, painted horn, lacquer, lead

13/3, 1981 by Sol LeWitt
Painted balsa wood

Beginning Study for Changes and Communication, 1978 by Alfred Jensen
Oil on canvas

Three Mirror Vortex, 1965 by Robert Smithson
Stainless steel, three mirrors

My Father Pledged Me a Sword, 1975, by Anselm Kiefer
Watercolour, gouache, coloured pencil and ballpoint pen on paper

Met Breuer, 945 Madison Avenue, Manhattan

December 28th, 2017

Edvard Munch Art

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As intrigued as I was in discovering Munch the Photographer, I couldn’t wait to renew my acquaintance with some of the inspiring, melancholic and – at times – tormented, works of Munch the Painter; and be reminded that there’s more loneliness in Munch the Man and a deeper agony than what he let us see/hear with ”The Scream”.

Self-Portrait, 1886
Oil on canvas

Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1895
Oil on canvas

Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu, 1919
Oil on canvas

Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine, 1906
Oil on canvas

Self-Portrait by the Window, ca. 1940
Oil on canvas

Inheritance, 1897-99
Oil on canvas

The Sick Child, 1896
Oil on canvas

Sick Mood at Sunset: Despair, 1892
Oil on canvas

Despair, 1894
Oil on canvas

Death in the Sick Room, 1893
Oil on canvas

Madonna, ca. 1895-97
Oil on canvas

Puberty, 1894
Oil on unprimed canvas

Ashes, 1925
Oil on canvas

Jealousy, ca. 1907
Oil on canvas

Model by the Wicker Chair, 11919-21
Oil on canvas

Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed @ Met Breuer, November 2107 – February 2018.

December, 28th 2017