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Tag Archives: sculpture
New York City Civil War Memorials
New York City Civil War Memorials are on the right side of history. And then, of course, the street names, especially in Brooklyn.
(Anti-Monument) Lives & Deaths of Racist Images
. Idols and icons lead complex lives, they enact suffering and they suffer violence when screws turn. Historian and theorist of art and architecture and post-Holocaust memorialization, James Young writes here on memory and counter-memory, monuments and counter- or anti-monuments, … Continue reading
(Holocaust Memory) Laura Levitt Guest-Blog (The Evidence Room)
[[With profound thanks, JPP is delighted to host as a guest-blog these reflections by Laura Levitt on “The Evidence Room.” About the exhibition, you can get your bearings here and here in this review that appeared in the NYT, and here. Among … Continue reading
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Fragmentary Colossal Head of A Youth
This colossal head Greek head from the 2nd century BCE found in a gymnasium at Pergamon in western Turkey and brought by way from the Pergamon in Berlin where he is still on loan in New York at the Metropolitan … Continue reading
Red Rose Pink Laminated Glass (Pacific Red II) (Larry Bell)
These cubes are made of laminated glass. I didn’t get much of a chance to look at Pacific Red II (2017) at eye level, but viewed from above up from the balconies at the Whitney allows one to look inside … Continue reading
Blizzard (Alexander Calder)
The point of the show at the Whitney is to put all these Calders into motion, to activate these abstract bodies. Alas, we arrived too late in the afternoon for that, but you can see the effects here at the … Continue reading
(About Death) Thinking (Canaanite Figurine)
What’s on this Canaanite fellow’s mind? The main body of the decorative figurine is formed out of the neck of a Bronze Age pottery jug, to which the arms, legs, and head were added. He’s almost 4,000 years old, uncovered at … Continue reading
(Lost and Adrift) Sleepwalker (Tony Matelli)
Even as we now speak, Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker (2014) is making his way up and down the Highline as part of a group show. I passed him by without even noticing, and then turned, startled. I saw him the day … Continue reading
Floating Space Modulators (László Moholy-Nagy)
The Moholy-Nagy paintings were pretty cool, but nothing beats the hanging and standing plexiglass sculptures at the recently closed Moholy-Nagy show at the Guggenheim. You get something of the idea in his Vision in Motion (1947). Moholy-Nagy (pronounced Mohly-Naagh) describes … Continue reading
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Zohar & American Judaism (Symbols & Modernist Sculptural Models in Mid-Century Jewish Thought)
[Henry Moore with plaster for Reclining Figure: External Form 1953-54] I thought teaching a Zohar seminar and an American Judaism seminar was going to be a strange combination, a bit of a stretch, and it is, but it’s not, or … Continue reading
