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...Standing Woman is one of five works (the others are sculptural pieces by Heinz Mack and G?nther Uecker, and paintings by Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana) that have traveled all the way from Venice to Melbourne for the National Gallery of Victoria?s blockbuster show, "Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now," which opened June...
...this reason alone, one can forgive registrar Rosin his nervousness. While Uecker's motorized Tactile Rotating Structure, 1961, looks as if it could travel to Melbourne under its own steam, each of the works had to be wrapped in waterproof tar paper, thermally insulating polystyrene and shock-absorbent polyethylene before being packed in its own custom-built fireproof pine case. In Venice, the five boxes were lifted by crane onto a barge in front of the museum and borne to the port of Tronchetto, from where they were trucked to Frankfurt to join a cargo flight with about 50 crates...
...already posed the question, "JACKSON POLLOCK: IS HE THE GREATEST LIVING PAINTER IN THE UNITED STATES?" But her life as a collector was not quite complete. From the '50s on, she moved past Pop and Minimalism to focus on the more quirky kinetic works of Germans Mack and Uecker, only now being properly appreciated. "The Zero Group works exemplify how Peggy was evergreen," Rylands says. "She continued buying art in the 1960s, and doing so intelligently, I must say." Three years before her death in 1979, she had the prescience to bequeath her palazzo and its collection to her uncle...
...challenge of illumination has often led to amusing and beautiful solutions, as can be seen in Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lamps and Candlesticks by Wolf Uecker (Abbeville; 280 pages; $75). Illustrations include color and black-and-white photographs of glass lamps by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Daum Freres, brass fantasies wrought by Josef Hoffmann and a lacquered wood-and-parchment floor fixture by Eileen Gray. There are modernist abstractions as well as familiar nymphs in flowing robes. Among the most delightful surprises: a bronze snail, its light contained beneath a shell of oxide-colored glass, and Emile Galle...
...start him off with a curveball, and I throw it two feet behind him. “Juuuuust a bit inside,” as Bob Uecker might have said in “Major League.” The batter singles, but the next batter grounds into an inning-ending double play...