Beyond NYC: Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley

December 18, 2018October 21, 2021 arts-NY 1 Comment

Beyond NYC: Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley

Modern Sculptures on a breathtaking vastness of the Hudson Valley rolling hills.

The Center is open for scheduled visits and online from anywhere.

Suspended by Menashe Kadishman at Storm King Art Center — Menashe Kadishman, Suspended, 1977. Gift of Muriel and Philip I. Berman. ©Estate of Menashe Kadishman. Photo by Jerry L. Thompson

Overlooking 500 acres of continuous grounds, Storm King Art Center is a paradise for art and nature lovers. The sculpture park, which had been opened in 1960 and from the mid-1970s started focusing on the large-scale sculptures by contemporary artists has the works of such modern masters as Alexander Calder, David Smith, Mark di Suvero, Henry Moore, Douglas Abdell, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Serra, Louise Kevelson, and many others.

Plan your visit by booking your time-entry tickets. Or explore the art center collection online. You can scroll through an exhaustive list of large sculpture masters who have their art shown at the center.

Virtual Tour

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Art in NYC: Constantin Brancusi Sculpture at MoMA

April 22, 2019June 19, 2019 contact@arts-ny.com 1 Comment

Art in NYC: Constantin Brancusi Sculpture at MoMA

Carefully selected from its own collection and archives, MoMA’s exhibition Constantin Brancusi Sculpture presents the ultimate concept of elegance and essence; on view July 22, 2018 – June 15, 2019

Museum of Modern Art Constantin Brancusi Mlle Pogany 1913 — Constantin Brancusi, Mlle Pogany, version I, 1913. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Imaging and Visual Resources Department, MoMA

Graceful and ascetic, the works by Constantin Brancusi, the forefather of the modernist sculpture, are on view at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) until June 15, 2019. A gallery housing the show projects an air of the highest purity and beauty that the object can reach. Brancusi was well-known for his aim to represent the object’s essence stripped bare from its superfluous covers. MoMa’s exhibition of the wisely selected artworks pinpoints exactly that.

Each piece in the collection shows the core and the inner soul as conceptualized by the artist. And while Brancusi was constantly perfecting his depiction of certain ideas be it a bird, a fish or a muse, each sculpture on view conveys a sense of successful resolution in the hands of the master.

The exhibition features 11 sculptures and an array of photographs, films and rare drawings from the MoMA collection. The works are organized in a loose chronological order starting from the early works from 1908 and leading to the later pieces from the 1940s.

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Art in NYC: Like Life – Sculpture, Color, and the Body at The Met Breuer

March 30, 2018July 30, 2018 arts-NY 1 Comment

Art in NYC: Like Life – Sculpture, Color, and the Body at The Met Breuer

History of Sculpture from 1300 until Now on view from March 21 – July 22, 2018

Like Life sculpture color body Met Breuer Museum — Tip Toland, The Whistlers, 2005, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, 2011 / Image courtesy of The Met Breuer

This truly fascinating exhibition at The Met Breuer covers seven hundred years of history from 1300 till now of sculptures, casts, tableaus, masks and even automatons to illuminate the perfection of likeness and its distortion. Covering a vast time window and the diversity of the approaches, the show is organized into 8 thematic sections located on 2 floors of the museum. Each section includes works from various places and times connected by either similarity or extreme contrast in the concept. About 120 works by old and new masters are selected including Donatello, El Greco, Rodin, Degas, Kusama, Koons, Cattelan and many many other.

One may agree or disagree with the overarching thesis about the use of colors and the influence of religion and societal biases on how we perceive the body in its nakedness and likeness, but it all comes back to how we see ourself and how we are perceived by others. Allow yourself enough time to observe, compare and read. Read More

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