There is a wonderful surprise at The Menil Collection in Houston if you follow a path just a hop skip and a jump from the main museum–a Dan Flavin installation. It is one of the artist’s final works and one of his few permanent installations in the United States. The de Menil’s began collecting his [...]
Always amazing, this trip to the DF was no exception. Not only was there great work on view at the fair, but the galleries and institutions had some terrific works on view as well.
Private Collection Visit
I love to see the way people live with their art. The rooftop artwork [...]
The MoCP generously hosted my last networking breakfast and on view were the wonderful, large-scale photographs of Victoria Sambunaris. For the past 10 years Sambunaris has been on road trips throughout the US taking images of diverse subject matter but always with the goal of understanding “the American landscape and our place in it.” She [...]
On my way back from Toronto and as I glance out the window of the Porter Airlines plane I am traveling on, I wonder, how many lives do the propellers have? Is it like the number of times you can roll an electric car window up and down, like a heart that [...]
Notice Board, 2011
Polish born, London-based artist Goshka Macuga was born in 1967. This is the first survey of her work in the United States and it is not an easy one to digest but I found it fascinating. Macuga looks at and uses art as a form of research. Her interest lies in [...]
This phenomenal exhibition presents the most influential avant garde collective of the postwar era. Founded by artist, critic and teacher Yoshihara Jiro, the Gutai group was legendary. Members explored new arts forms such as performance, painting and “interactive environments” creating an international common ground of experimental art. It lasted for 18 years, from 1954-72 and [...]
If you are at the Guggenheim checking out the Gutai exhibition which you must do, you need to pop into the small exhibition of works by Zarina Hashmi organized by the Hammer Museum (no wonder I loved it). Born in 1937 in India, in 1947 she was forced to leave and settle in Pakistan and is now [...]
Tilda Swinton is in an artwork at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC that will occur randomly for the next year. Called “The Maybe,” it has been in the works since 2005. In it, Ms. Swinton lies in a glass vitrine on a bed with a carafe of water for the duration of the [...]
It was such a treat to have a tour of this marvelous exhibition by curator Gretchen Wagner. A three-part project, each unique element of the show is on view in a different location–the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis and The Menil Collection in Houston. [...]
Reina Sofia
No visit to Madrid is complete without a visit to the Reina Sofia. And right now there is a fantastic exhibition of works from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros’ collection on view called “Concrete Invention.” All the works are South American geometric abstractions from the 1930s-1970s. As the wall text explains, in cities such as [...]