Overview:
London-based artist Roger Hiorns’s captivating sculptural objects,
installations, and performances exploit unusual materials to disquieting
ends. Among the artist’s principal preoccupations is the form of the
engine—extracted from both automobiles and airplanes. In the most
general terms, the engine is, for Hiorns, a metaphor for networks both
inert and, potentially, threateningly alive.
Roger Hiorns's Untitled (Alliance) installed on
the Modern Wing's Bluhm Family Terrace.
For his commissioned site-specific project on the
Bluhm Family Terrace of the Modern Wing, Hiorns presents two Pratt
and Whitney TF33 P9 engines, once mounted on Boeing EC135 Looking Glass
long-range surveillance planes. For the artist, the project is a
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Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 examines what is
without question the most innovative, momentous, and yet little-studied
time in the artist’s long career. Nearly 120 of his most ambitious and
experimental paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from the period
are on view. Matisse himself acknowledged the significance of these
years when he identified two paintings, Bathers by a River and The
Moroccans, as among his most pivotal. These monumental canvases
from the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of
Modern A
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Frederick Cayley Robinson’s masterpiece, ‘Acts of Mercy’ (1916–20),
comprises four large-scale allegorical works, which memorably explore
the positive forces of the human spirit in the face of destruction.
Cayley Robinson (1862–1927) is one of the most distinctive and yet
elusive British painters of the early 20th century. Essentially a
British Symbolist, Robinson created a striking variety of mood and
atmosphere in his paintings to evoke complex emotional responses
About the paintings
The four panels on display were executed as a commission for the new
Middlesex Hosp
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The second in a series of Tower exhibitions focusing on contemporary
art and its roots offers a rare look at the black-on-black paintings
that Rothko made in 1964 in connection with his work on a chapel for the
Menil Collection in Houston. A recording of Morton Feldman's Rothko
Chapel (1971), the haunting music originally composed for that
space, accompanies the exhibition in the spacious East Building Tower
Gallery.
A new 10-minute film examines the career of Rothko and his
devel
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Beat Memories: The
Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
May 2–September 17, 2010
Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th street after visiting
Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel "Sunset" Cot,
"The Letter – Carrier's Friend" in Tompkins Square toward corner of
Avenue A, Lower East Side; he's making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian
basso be-bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved
with The Subterraneans, pencils & notebook in wool
shirt-pockets, Fall 1953, Manhattan."
1953
gelatin silver print
Gift of Gary S. Davis
2009.108.2
In the first scholarly exhibition of American poet Allen Ginsberg's
photographs, all facets of his work in photography will be explored.
Some 79 works on display wi
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American Modernism:
The Shein Collection
May 16, 2010–January 2, 2011
Marsden Hartley Pre-War Pageant, 1913 oil on canvas 100.3
x 81 cm (39 1/2 x 31 7/8) Collection of Deborah and Ed Shein
This exhibition explores the advent of modernism a century ago
through twenty important paintings, sculptures, and drawings by the
first-generation American avant-garde. Among the artists represented are
Patrick Henry Bruce, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marcel
Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, John Marin, Georgia
O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella,
John Storrs, and Max Weber. All works are from the Edward and Deborah
Shein Collection, which is distinguished by its remarkable quality and
rigorous focus on early American modernism.