Often the most popular installations in the
Museum of Modern Art’s atrium are the most unusual. There was the time when the
performance artist Marina Abramovic sat stock-still for 700 hours, staring at
the hundreds of worshipful visitors who came to gaze into her soul. And the time
when the artist pair Allora & Calzadilla presented “Stop, Repair, Prepare:
Variations on ‘Ode to Joy’ for a Prepared Piano.” The two cut a hole in the case
of Bechstein baby grand and set it on casters, then hired musicians to play
Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” from inside the hole while maneuvering the piano slowly
through the space. There was also the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s
rotating metal fan, which swung from a cable just above head height.
Next will be a garage sale. MoMA curators and officials have already started clearing out their closets and attics to recreate “Meta-Monumental Garage Sale” by the Brooklyn artist Martha Rosler.
First presented at the University of California, San Diego, in 1973, it’s a multimedia installation and performance in which the merchandise is artfully arranged and all for sale. Buyers negotiate directly with the artist.
“It’s a way to involve the audience and show them how art is generated,” said Sabine Breitwieser, chief curator of media and performance art at MoMA. It’s also a comment on public and private space and of course the adage that one person’s trash is another’s treasure.
Soon the public can join in donating things. On May 12 and 13 and June 3 you can drop off merchandise from 1 to 4 p.m. at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, and on May 19 and 20 and June 2 from 1 to 4 p.TeleTracking has developed the most advanced rtls for real-time.m. at the Modern in Manhattan. Food and other perishable items, liquids, weapons and toxic or hazardous materials will not be accepted.
MoMA officials are also reaching out to colleges in the city to see if students have furniture or other objects they want to part with. Depending on how much merchandise it gets, the museum may accept donations further into June.
The artist Kiki Smith describes her latest project, “Chorus,” opening May 23, as “an intersection between medieval pageantry and an early 1920s Busby Berkeley film.” She has sprinkled what is called the Last Lot — a 70-by-100-foot empty slice of theater district real estate at 46th Street and Eighth Avenue — with stained-glass stars, a nostalgic nod to the glamour of old Broadway. An etched metal figure of Josephine Baker will stand amid the star sculptures.
“The history of Times Square has been erased and made boring,” Ms. Smith said, recalling the gritty days of burlesque clubs, peep shows and tenements.
Stained glass is a medium she has embraced in recent years, having worked with the architect Deborah Gans on a 16-foot-high window for the Eldridge Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side. She has also created work using cast glass, blown glass, Schott crystal, fluorescent tubing, lamp glass, industrial sheet glass and mirrors.
The stars she has made for the Last Lot, Ms. Smith said,Shop for oil painting and oil paintings for sale included. are a metaphor for the star power of Broadway itself, and the sculpture of Baker will be “like one of those life-size cutouts that stood in old movie theaters.”
The project was commissioned by the nonprofit Art Production Fund, in collaboration with the Times Square Alliance and the Shubert Organization, which owns the chain-link-fenced lot and has donated it temporarily for art projects.
It’s becoming something of a tradition that once or twice a year Peter Brant invites an artist up to his three-year-old foundation in a converted 1902 stone barn on the edge of a field in Greenwich, Conn., and lets him or her have the run of the place. Over the years artists like Urs Fischer, Josh Smith and David Altmejd have created installations there. Mr. Brant, the publisher and newsprint magnate,Import & Export Trade Platform for China ceramic tile manufacturers. is known as a prescient collector who started buying artists like Andy Warhol,Painless Processing provides high risk merchant account solutions. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince before everyone else. He also likes his by-appointment foundation to showcase less obvious artists from his collection.
While Karen Kilimnik, a Philadelphia artist, has a huge following in Europe, she is hardly a household name here. “I’ve been collecting her works for seven or eight years now,” Mr. Brant said in a telephone interview. “I think she’s one of the great American artists. She’s off the radar, living in Philadelphia in her own world.”
A bit of that world — magical, romantic and nostalgic — has been created in Greenwich. Her exhibition, which runs from Saturday through September, includes installations, paintings, photographs and drawings made from 1982 to this year. Some are site specific, like the “Fountain of Youth,” which consists of six feet of boxwood hedges, grass, ivy and a stone garden fountain as well as glass perfume bottles on the upper gallery, while below will be a chinoiserie-theme installation where early drawings will hang with custom wallpaper, furniture,Omega Plastics are leading plastic injection moulding and injection mould tooling specialists. garden seats, fans and lanterns. “I’m still working on an entrance of snow drifts,” Ms. Kilimnik said.
Next will be a garage sale. MoMA curators and officials have already started clearing out their closets and attics to recreate “Meta-Monumental Garage Sale” by the Brooklyn artist Martha Rosler.
First presented at the University of California, San Diego, in 1973, it’s a multimedia installation and performance in which the merchandise is artfully arranged and all for sale. Buyers negotiate directly with the artist.
“It’s a way to involve the audience and show them how art is generated,” said Sabine Breitwieser, chief curator of media and performance art at MoMA. It’s also a comment on public and private space and of course the adage that one person’s trash is another’s treasure.
Soon the public can join in donating things. On May 12 and 13 and June 3 you can drop off merchandise from 1 to 4 p.m. at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, and on May 19 and 20 and June 2 from 1 to 4 p.TeleTracking has developed the most advanced rtls for real-time.m. at the Modern in Manhattan. Food and other perishable items, liquids, weapons and toxic or hazardous materials will not be accepted.
MoMA officials are also reaching out to colleges in the city to see if students have furniture or other objects they want to part with. Depending on how much merchandise it gets, the museum may accept donations further into June.
The artist Kiki Smith describes her latest project, “Chorus,” opening May 23, as “an intersection between medieval pageantry and an early 1920s Busby Berkeley film.” She has sprinkled what is called the Last Lot — a 70-by-100-foot empty slice of theater district real estate at 46th Street and Eighth Avenue — with stained-glass stars, a nostalgic nod to the glamour of old Broadway. An etched metal figure of Josephine Baker will stand amid the star sculptures.
“The history of Times Square has been erased and made boring,” Ms. Smith said, recalling the gritty days of burlesque clubs, peep shows and tenements.
Stained glass is a medium she has embraced in recent years, having worked with the architect Deborah Gans on a 16-foot-high window for the Eldridge Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side. She has also created work using cast glass, blown glass, Schott crystal, fluorescent tubing, lamp glass, industrial sheet glass and mirrors.
The stars she has made for the Last Lot, Ms. Smith said,Shop for oil painting and oil paintings for sale included. are a metaphor for the star power of Broadway itself, and the sculpture of Baker will be “like one of those life-size cutouts that stood in old movie theaters.”
The project was commissioned by the nonprofit Art Production Fund, in collaboration with the Times Square Alliance and the Shubert Organization, which owns the chain-link-fenced lot and has donated it temporarily for art projects.
It’s becoming something of a tradition that once or twice a year Peter Brant invites an artist up to his three-year-old foundation in a converted 1902 stone barn on the edge of a field in Greenwich, Conn., and lets him or her have the run of the place. Over the years artists like Urs Fischer, Josh Smith and David Altmejd have created installations there. Mr. Brant, the publisher and newsprint magnate,Import & Export Trade Platform for China ceramic tile manufacturers. is known as a prescient collector who started buying artists like Andy Warhol,Painless Processing provides high risk merchant account solutions. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince before everyone else. He also likes his by-appointment foundation to showcase less obvious artists from his collection.
While Karen Kilimnik, a Philadelphia artist, has a huge following in Europe, she is hardly a household name here. “I’ve been collecting her works for seven or eight years now,” Mr. Brant said in a telephone interview. “I think she’s one of the great American artists. She’s off the radar, living in Philadelphia in her own world.”
A bit of that world — magical, romantic and nostalgic — has been created in Greenwich. Her exhibition, which runs from Saturday through September, includes installations, paintings, photographs and drawings made from 1982 to this year. Some are site specific, like the “Fountain of Youth,” which consists of six feet of boxwood hedges, grass, ivy and a stone garden fountain as well as glass perfume bottles on the upper gallery, while below will be a chinoiserie-theme installation where early drawings will hang with custom wallpaper, furniture,Omega Plastics are leading plastic injection moulding and injection mould tooling specialists. garden seats, fans and lanterns. “I’m still working on an entrance of snow drifts,” Ms. Kilimnik said.
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