Word: ironworks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building Director James Elliott gave Staff Designer Lawrence Channing a free hand to house the Atheneum's distinguished pottery and ironwork. Channing devised pyramidal plastic enclosures which permit the pottery to be viewed from every side and eliminate light reflections-a vast improvement on the standard flat, glass-topped case. Ironwork is mounted on open, tentlike forms. To show off the unique collection of ballet costumes, triangular booths were set in surrealist space across wide expanses of floor. Thus the viewer can wander around and encounter each costume-clad dummy individually, each as isolated and unexpected as a presence...
...sunny St.-Paul-de-Vence, with its celebrated abundance of Picassos, Chagalls and Mirós, then move on to the Musée Fernand Léger in Biot and the Picasso museum in the Château Grimaldi in Antibes. And for some 30,000 lovers of ironwork-from forthright masculine forging to lacy feminine filigree, from the Roman keys to the needlepoint balustrade that graced Mme. de Pompadour's country mansion-there is Rouen's Musée Le Secq des Tournelles...
JEWISH MUSEUM-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. Twenty U.S. artists show 39 astringent black-and-white paintings plucked from the usually warmer palettes of such painters as Albers, Hofmann, Pollock, Motherwell and De Kooning. Stripped of color, the ironwork of their composition shows off the tough structure of abstract expressionism. Through...
JEWISH MUSEUM-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. Color blindness is no problem here: 20 U.S. artists show 39 astringent black-and-white paintings plucked from the usually hot palettes of such painters as Albers, Hofmann, Pollock, Motherwell and De Kooning. Stripped of color, the ironwork of their composition shows off the tough structure of abstract expressionism. Through...
...Gallery in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, that gives a new perspective to the neglected cultural contribution of Africa to the rest of the world. More than 350 works-many borrowed from museums and private collections in Britain. Europe and the U.S.-make up the show (see color). Bronzes, wood carvings, ironwork, masks, dance costumes, ritual dolls, totems, musical instruments, fragments of terra cotta are there and compared, when appropriate, with photographs of examples from the modern movement in Western...