Leon Golub at The Drawing Center

I haven’t been to The Drawing Center in a long while. It’s the kind of place I’m always meaning to go to. I meant to see the Ree Morton show late last year, and never made it. I got curious after reading (more here) about this artist who I never heard of and seeing her [...]

When You Are Sick…

…it’s hard to focus on anything serious. And yet it is so boring to sit with yourself and your achy throat and pounding head. And TV has slim pickings. I watched Kung Fu Panda (again), which I actually really liked. Jack Black is the perfect voice for the pudgy, feisty fighter. Then I viewed an [...]

Twitter Tour Tuesday!

I’m excited about the upcoming Twitter Tour of the Biennial that the Whitney is doing in collaboration with WNYC radio.  Here are the details: WNYC’s art critic Carolina Miranda (@cmonstah) set up a list on Twitter so you can follow the tour tomorrow Tuesday, March 23 staring at 2:30pm here.  All the folks tweeting from [...]

Fisher Landau Center for Art

Craig and I went on an outing yesterday to Long Island City in Queens. He wanted to check out the climate/gallery which had contacted him about participating in an upcoming group collage show. So we headed off. On the way we happened upon an unobtrustive white building with a banner stating it was the “Fisher [...]

Ursus Books

In November during the first weeks at my new job the Whitney museum I noticed the sign for a book store above the Carlyle Hotel. It read Ursus Books. I was intrigued, but couldn’t see the entrance. When I asked colleagues they hadn’t been there and also weren’t sure of the location of the shop’s [...]

Working at the Whitney museum

A new era in my working life begins on Monday and I’m thrilled. I start my new job working on publicity for the Whitney Museum of American Art. It’s an exciting time to be entering the museum. They just launched their new web site last week. And are planning a major building expansion downtown by [...]

The Wire Sculptures of Ruth Asawa

When we were out in California this August I was finally able to see the incredible wire sculptures of Ruth Asawa (1926-)–by accident. Wandering around the new de Young museum in San Francisco we found them by the elevators. I first heard of Asawa at Third Avenue Clay, the ceramic studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn where [...]

Web Sites on My Mind

A few notes on web sites that have been intriguing me recently… ArtBabble: This blog is a great place to view artist work and interviews with the artist. K as in Knife: An amazing collection of curiously curated bits and pieces–fascinating ads that Swedish director Roy Andersson created, photos by director Iranian Abbas Kiarostami, and [...]

Creativity at its Best: Bruno Munari

I’m just learning more about Italian creative persona extraordinaire Buno Munari! He made the favorite book of my childhood, Circus in the Mist, which I still have. Circus in the Mist uses thick vellum–a paper that is opaque–at the beginning and end to serve as the mist that we go through to enter the bright, [...]

Museum Shops-West Coast

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art shop: My top pick for West coast museum shops I’ve been to on this trip is SFMOMA’s on all counts. It’s in a sunny, gorgeous large room which is easy to maneuver in even when full. The items both made for SFMOMA and beyond are all tempting. And I [...]