We had four splendid art filled days and nights in London during the Frieze week! Donna Huanca’s first UK solo exhibition “Scar Cymbals” at the Zabludowicz Collection is the first performance-led commission in the space curated by Maitreyi Maheshwari. Her work draws attention to the body and in particular the skin by examining types of …
Thursday morning we arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago and headed to The Modern Wing, which was designed by Renzo Piano and officially opened to the public in 2009. The 264,000 square-foot building positions the Art Institute as the second largest art museum in the USA, after SFMOMA (see blog August 18, 2016). Last …
We arrived at the Arsenal, a 41,000 square feet exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art created by Montreal collectors Pierre and Anne-Marie Trahan. It opened in 2012 in a former shipyard to showcase their Majudia Collection as well as their Galerie Division, where young emerging Canadian artists are featured. There is a satellite space in …
We returned to the new SFMOMA this week, after visiting the first installation in 2010, to view the new 10-story, Snohetta designed addition to the 1995 Mario Botta 5 story building. The public-private partnership created in 2009 with Doris and Donald Fisher, the founders of the Gap and Charles Schwab, the board chair of SFMOMA …
We arrived on Friday afternoon at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts to have a private tour with the founding Director Joe Thompson. He led us through the ongoing $55 million construction project where Laurie Anderson, James Turrell and Jenny Holzer will have new installations. This is in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and is …
Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, director of Moma PS1 and Chief Curator at Large, Moma, Cao Fei’s exhibition is her first solo museum show in the US. Born in 1981 in Guangzhou after the Cultural Revolution and based in Beijing, Fei is “one of the most innovative young artists to have emerged from China.” To explore …
On our way to view the Renzo Piano exhibition, “The Art of Making Buildings” at The Royal Academy, we stumbled upon a fascinating exhibition, “The Secret To A Good Life” The Artist “Bob and Roberta Smith”, a pseudonym for the artist Patrick Brill, “explores the sometimes strained relationships between women artists and the Royal Academy, … Continue reading
It was fascinating to view the Picasso exhibition, “From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present and Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. It was presented side by side in the galleries. “The exhibition looks at the transformation in our view of the arts … Continue reading
On June 5, I was delighted to join Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and other guests on a visit to John Giorno’s studio in Lower Manhattan. Giorno is an American poet and performance artist. He was featured in Warhol’s film “Sleep” in 1963 and founded “Dial-A-Poem”, using a telephone service to communicate … Continue reading
As we arrived at the VIP opening on Wednesday morning, at the newly renovated convention center, it was a pleasure to meet up with Norman Braman, who with his wife Irma, funded the entire design and construction of the new Institute of Contemporary Art Museum (ICA Miami) building, along with the acquisition of land for … Continue reading
Arriving in London a few days prior to the opening of the Frieze Art Fair and Frieze Masters offered me extra time to view the works at Christie’s, Phillips and Sotheby’s on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. Christie’s added a group of smaller works called “Up Close” including a 15 inch Alberto Giacometti sculpture, entitled “Man (Apollo)” which tripled … Continue reading
The month of June began with a visit to Cleveland to attend the opening of Keith Mayerson’s exhibition “My American Dream”, his first solo museum show in the US, at MOCA, to which I was a lender. It was a retrospective of Keith’s ongoing project to chronicle his personal journey along with the historical and … Continue reading
Diane Arbus’ exhibition entitled “Diane Arbus: in the beginning” is a stunning installation on the second floor of the Met Breuer. The decision to hang the photographs on individual columns, set up in rows and accessible from various directions, provides an element of discovery to explore the work. By choosing to navigate the space from … Continue reading
