On Thursday I went to the New York Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). Honestly, I wasn`t expecting much, but… on the contrary, what a nice surprise!
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From Japanese exquisite design and art (subtle, delicate, and sensitive beauty that never ceases to soothe your soul) in “Beauty in all things”, to the awesomely curated “Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design”, to the amazing “Glasstress New York”, the whole museum was a joy to visit.
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Yesterday I had the enourmous pleasure of going to see Sara Sze‘s Infinite Line at Asia Society.
Definitely a pleasure, an exhibition not to be missed, and true to Sarah`s aim: works that a photograph can not capture (not that the copyright zealots of the Asia Society would let you take pictures anyway).
One of the multiple interesting pieces currently being exhibited at the New Museums <a title="https://cortell.net/blog/2012/03/the-ungovernables-party-at-new-museum/" href="https://cortell.net/blog/2012/03/the-ungovernables-party-at-new-museum/" target="_blank">The Ungovernables</a> is Amalia Picas Venn Diagrams. The text under this piece says:
During the period of dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s, gatherings of citizens were closely monitored as they were considered a threat to the government. At the same time group theory and venn diagrams were banned from primary school programs as they could provide a model for subversive thought.
Yesterday I was invited to The Ungovernables Triennial leap year cocktail by-invitation-only party at the New Museum.
After a long line on the street, under the rain and cold wind (no wonder I have a cold now), the party started at 7:30pm in the main lobby: DJ, cocktails, and fluorescent rubber bands for a crowd eager to see and be seen.
Not one to particularly enjoy mingling and parties, I went upstairs to see the exhibition.
Today I was invited to the MoMA PS1 for K-HOLE#2 Release. Young people, “Brooklyn artsy”, holding beers and beards, with the careless attitude that the PS1 requires: either I dont get it or I do, but in any case, it wont show.
There were many works on display, too many (and too complex or infuriatingly simple) to comment here. What was definitely not worth mentioning, from my ignorant point of view, was the Alterazioni Video “The New Cinema Event”.
New York is full of Japanese art, and I am not only referring to the Asia Week NY or the architecture (New Museums SANAA, MoMAs Yoshio Taniguchi, Japan Societys Junzo Yoshimura…), interior design (Megus Yasumichi Morita, Morimotos Tadao Ando, Louis Vuittons Jyun Aoki…), sculpture (Red Cube`s Isamu Noguchi…), art collections (MET, MoMA, Japan Society, Morgan, Rubin…), food (Yasuda, Kajitsu, Minamoto Kichoan…), or shops (Makari, Toy Tokyo, JCC…).
Yesterday I had a chance to see two rare forms of Japanese art in NY.
