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☆ Art Seeks Enlightenment in Darkness
  + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Jori Finkel | More About Jori Finkel | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel. To enter Kehinde Wiley’s show “An Archaeology of Silence” is to step into darkness, where only the art itself seems to emit light. The space feels somewhere between a crypt and a cathedral, featuring paintings and bronze sculptures of reclining Black bodies, spread out in repose or entombed like corpses, that appear to glow from within. The show, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, culminates with a monumental sculpture of a fallen man on horseback, draped over the horse as if he had just been shot, his Nikes dangling below the saddle. Made in the year after George Floyd was killed by the police in Minneapolis, this monument — and more broadly, the show as a whole — confronts the “legacy and scope of anti-Black violence,” according to Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation.
Persons: George Floyd, Darren Walker Organizations: Museum of Fine Arts, Ford Foundation Locations: Houston, Minneapolis
☆ A Beacon of Modern Architecture Lands in the Desert
  + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Jori Finkel | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The Aluminaire House, one of the earliest and edgiest examples of the International Style of modernist architecture in America, was never meant to withstand a harsh desert climate. Originally it wasn’t even designed to be outside. The house, a boxy three-story structure clad in aluminum panels that went up within 10 days, drew big crowds as well as some gleeful ridicule from the mainstream press, which naturally helped to establish its bona fides as avant-garde architecture. Now, having been disassembled, reassembled and relocated three times over the decades and rescued from demolition along the way, the influential house is being reconstructed in a new — and the plan is, permanent — site. In anticipation, an Albert Frey exhibition opened at the museum in January.
Persons: Albert Frey Organizations: Grand, Palm Springs Art Museum Locations: America, Swiss, New York
☆ Robert Irwin, Artist of Fleeting Light and Space, Is Dead at 95
  + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Jori Finkel | More About Jori Finkel | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Robert Irwin, a Southern California artist associated with the Light and Space movement of the 1960s, who early on stopped making paintings in favor of creating ephemeral and sometimes intangible art environments, died on Wednesday in the La Jolla section of San Diego. His death, at Scripps Memorial Hospital, was caused by heart failure, said Arne Glimcher, the founder and chairman of the international Pace Gallery, which has shown Mr. Irwin’s work since 1966. Mr. Irwin lived in San Diego. Within the contemporary art world, Mr. Irwin’s work on human attention and perception — he called it, with a nod to scientific research, an “inquiry” into perception — was highly influential; he won a MacArthur “genius” award in 1984. The work was not highly visible to the public, however.
Persons: Robert Irwin, Arne Glimcher, Irwin’s, Irwin, — Organizations: Scripps Memorial Hospital, Pace Gallery, MacArthur Locations: Southern California, Jolla, San Diego, Venice
☆ Palm Fronds and Car Parts: Assemblage Art in Los Angeles
  + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Jori Finkel | More About Jori Finkel | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A decade ago, priced out of renting an apartment and studio in Los Angeles, the artist Dominique Moody built a steel-clad, wood structure on a 20-foot flatbed trailer. It was an experiment in making a small, mobile abode before the tiny home trend took off. Steeped in assemblage, the process of making art from found or scavenged objects, Moody, 66, fashioned her home out of reclaimed materials where others would have gone straight to Home Depot. Starting Oct. 1, the Nomad will be parked outside the Hammer Museum as part of the sixth edition of “Made in L.A.,” a biennial spotlighting emerging and underrecognized artists living in Los Angeles. And it serves as a teaser for what’s inside, as this year’s exhibition is not just made in Los Angeles, but to an extraordinary degree made of it, with objects scavenged from the city streets — ranging from palm fronds to broken car parts — showing up in many of the works.
Persons: Dominique Moody, Moody, Ford Organizations: Hammer Museum Locations: Los Angeles, L.A
☆ Watching for the Bus Stop Gallery
  + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Jori Finkel | More About Jori Finkel | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The artist Felipe Baeza knows something about waiting for the bus. Growing up in Chicago in the 1990s, he rode the city bus on his own starting around age nine. Going to college at Cooper Union in New York to study art, he took the bus or subway from his home in Spanish Harlem to get to class. They will also appear on digital kiosks and newsstands in Mexico City. Navigating a city by public transportation changes the way you experience the landscape, the world.”
Persons: Felipe Baeza, ”, Baeza, “ Organizations: Cooper Union, Art Fund Locations: Chicago, New York, Spanish Harlem, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Baeza, Boston, Léon, Mexico, Mexico City, Celaya
☆ A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for Infinity
  + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Jori Finkel | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The San Francisco skyline has radically changed over the past two decades because of all the real estate development. The Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, famous for his slyly deceptive photography, has just planted a slender, 69-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture on a hilltop in Yerba Buena Island, meant to serve as an anchor — or beacon, given its height — for the area’s new public art program. From some viewpoints it looks like the tip of a sewing needle poking out above the trees and cellular towers of this island in the San Francisco Bay. Because of its particular curved geometry, which tapers from a concrete base of 23 feet to a top that is less than one inch in diameter, the sculpture looks as if it’s growing infinitely smaller and taller as it reaches for Earth’s outer atmosphere. The artist paradoxically calls his skyscraper “Point of Infinity,” and, even more than the beautiful sliver of mirror-finished stainless steel itself, he hopes to showcase that Zen koan-like notion.
Persons: Hiroshi Sugimoto, ”, Sugimoto, “ Organizations: San Locations: San Francisco, Yerba Buena, San Francisco Bay
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