WHAT IS IT ABOUT MAYA LIN THAT MAKES SO MANY OTHER ARTISTS SEEM… IRRELEVANT? While not as monumental as her Vietnam Veterans Memorial, nor as sweeping as her Storm King-based “Bodies of Water,” her “2 x 4 Landscape” installation at PaceWildenstein is pretty breath-taking. Made entirely of two-by-four wood blocks standing vertically, the miniature landscape fills the room like an expanding lung. Around the edges, they stand side by side; closer to the middle, they stack on top of each [...]
Posted in Arts & Events on October 21st, 2009 | 
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museums and galleries so beautiful it makes you ache
Our trip to the Brooklyn Museum–the second largest art museum in the United States–was wildly successful (see below), but the new facade, designed by the firm of Cresson, Cresson, Cresson & Asshole, still vexes us. We don’t know much about architecture, but we do know that it should make some kind of, uh, sense. The glass addition to the old building, aside from having no apparent function looks like someone stuck high-tech chewing gum to a gorgeous antique bedpost. It [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on January 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
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cool stuff museums and galleries Ron Mueck
Recharger has always asked himself the following: how can anyone with a pile of cash take a whole aircraft carrier–a floating city packed with an intriguing number of gay sailors and a terrifying array of futuristic weaponry designed to wipe out foreign populations–and make it boring?
Answer: not easily.
Since 1982 when it opened, the Intrepid Air and Space Museum has, with its football-field sized mess hall, its maze-like passageways leading to machine rooms and bunks, and its creepy death craft rusting [...]
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on October 9th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Ilya Lyssanov museums and galleries
