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On a dismal, rainy Saturday in Manhattan, as dirty snow slowly melted to reveal winter’s detritus outside, the cheerful, humorous and ever approachable Fred Wilson led a group of gallerygoers through Isamu Noguchi’s Variations. The exhibition is currently on view in one of Pace Gallery’s Chelsea spaces, where wide-open rooms and church-like skylights give Noguchi’s iconic works a calming and magical feel. Wilson began his tour by telling us what first drew him to Noguchi. “There was no one who looked like me in art school,” the self-described “African, Native American, European and Amerindian” artist explained, “and there was no one who looked like Noguchi.” It was the Japanese American’s bicultural identity that laid the foundation for a cross-generational connection between these two aesthetically different artists.
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Fred Wilson’s “Guarded View” (1991). Wilson will discuss his work this week at the School of Visual Arts. (via whitney.org)
This week’s offerings are wonderfully diverse — a little something for everyone. See masterpieces of stained-glass art from the 12th century at the Cloisters or revisit a masterpiece novel, Invisible Man, at the Schomburg Center. If you’re looking for something a little more…
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s summer in the USA, and that means it’s group-show season on both coasts. Since group shows are a means of rounding up artists to make aesthetic and philosophical points, it seemed only fair that I do the same and corral a bunch of them (plus two solo shows) in this non-comprehensive review of a few San Francisco galleries and nonprofits.
From Black Performance to Stuff on a Shelf, a Visit to Five Shows in San Francisco
PHILADELPHIA — It’s an illuminating mental exercise to ponder: what if Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the pharmaceutical tycoon and physician who assembled an unmatched collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings in Philadelphia, was actually an installation artist before his time? This is the central conceit that inspired The Order of Things, now in its final days at the Barnes Foundation. Curated by Drexel University art history professor Martha Lucy, the exhibition comprises three distinct installations by Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, and Fred Wilson. It also includes a re-creation (with original objects) of the “Dutch Room” from the original Barnes site in Lower Merion as it looked from its inception, in 1925, until it was dismantled to make way for an ADA-mandated elevator in the 1990s.
Contemporary Artists Create a New Kind of Order at the Barnes Foundation
Although it’s an art form more associated with medieval cathedrals, there is stunning stained glass in New York City. Some of the most lustrous examples are found in museums — the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Autumn Landscape” (1923–24) by Tiffany Studios dazzles with its glimmering waterfall winding below fall trees; the Brooklyn Museum’s “Hospitalitas” (1906–07) by John La Farge has realistic depth in its depiction of a robed woman dropping flowers against a rich landscape of blue. The churches, synagogues, and spiritual spaces dotting the five boroughs also have illuminated masterpieces, including a 14th-century window on view in the Little Church Around the Corner in Murray Hill and Tiffany glass commemorating early settlers at Brooklyn’s Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church.
From a Synagogue to a Pizzeria, an Alternative Tour of Stained Glass in NYC
Smithsonian Brings Google Glass to the Museum
Viewers wearing Google Glass interact with David Datuna’s “Portrait of America” (2013). (all images…
Over 150 glass plate photographs of the moon, stars, and solar eclipses were recently rediscovered in the basement of the the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Copenhagen. Astronomer Holger Pedersen described in a report from NBI that he’d gone down to the basement to make a cup of tea and “noticed some cardboard boxes from the Østervold Observatory. They had been moved there when the observatory was shut down many years ago. The boxes were full of cartons, so I took them up to the office to take a closer look at them.”
Rediscovered Glass Plate Photographs Show the Skies 120 Years Ago
Halcyon Days for Heady Glass: Cue the Bong Renaissance View Post
