Word: guggenheims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...toys are for all ages, and can be as ominous in their ease as fellow New Englander Robert Frost's poetry. Last week his bobbing mobile The Ghost and his sprawling stabile Guillotine for Eight met like stalactite and stalagmite in the great rotunda of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum (see opposite page). Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture never had better tenants: a 361-piece retrospective that could equally well establish Calder as a wizard of the wind, a Wright Brothers' Rodin, or the greatest tinker of all time...
...space prober. His mobiles stir through space like tree branches in a breeze. His stabiles (unmoving sculpture) are saurian girders that seem to slunk through the landscape, yet loom with a delicacy all their own. Yet their universality is shot through with humility. Visitors to the Guggenheim wandered beneath huge stabiles, paused to observe his The Only Only Bird (see opposite); it is a pop-like dodo made of beer and coffee cans whose title is drawn from a slogan on a can rather than being a claim to uniqueness. In its common materials, the tin bird outglitters a peacock...
...GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th...
...Alexander Calder will forever be remembered as the man who made sculpture move," says Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer. In cognizance of that, the museum has collected Calder's wire sculpture, jewelry, toys, paintings, mobiles, stabiles and stabile-mobiles to make the largest showing of Calder's work ever assembled. Calder, in turn, has created an enormous mobile to hang in the middle of it all. Through...
...GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. An exceptional exhibition of American drawings selected by Curator Lawrence Alloway includes work by such senior draughtsmen as Gorky and Tobey, along with some by relative newcomers, including Larry Poons and Sven Lukin. A handsome historical precis of Albert Gleizes' offers the U.S. its first chance to review the work of one of the earliest cubists. The drawings run through Oct. 25, the Gleizes' show through...