David Nolan Gallery announces the death of Barry Le Va
Barry Le Va installing a glass sculpture at Documenta, 1972.
NEW YORK, NY
.-David Nolan Gallery announced the death of Barry Le Va on January 24th. A pioneer of process art, Le Va rose to prominence in the late 1960s through sculptures and installation work of unconventional materials made according to meticulous yet dynamic drawings.
Barry Le Va was born in 1941 in Long Beach, California to Arthur and Muriel Le Va. In his youth, he was greatly interested in cartoons, architecture, and the artwork of Frank Lloyd Wright, Öyvind Falhström and Roberto Matta as well as detective stories, all which would influence his work later in his career. Le Va attended California State University, Long Beach from 1960 to 1963, continuing his studies at Los Angeles College of Art & Design, and Otis Art Institute of LA County, where he received a Master of Fine Arts in 1967.
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The Frick Collection s New Home Away from Home
The legendary museum embarks on a two-year renovation and moves its collection to Madison Avenue.
By Phyllis Tuchman Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
When I was a girl, I loved visiting the Frick Collection. Let Eloise roam around the Plaza Hotel in my Sunday best, I preferred looking at the beautiful paintings in the limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue where an actual family had once lived. Much later I learned more about Vermeer, Rembrandt, Ingres, Bellini, El Greco, and the other Old Masters who were displayed on the damask walls and in wood-paneled rooms that the industrialist Henry Clay Frick had inhabited. To this day I’m a regular visitor who relishes time-traveling back to the Gilded Age.
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FSU’s Museum of Fine Arts announces guest lecture series
The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) will host a series of guest lectures that will highlight speakers who utilize diverse approaches to their creative practice and lead discussions that are vital to the arts and the community.
Meredith Lynn, MoFA’s assistant curator and director of galleries, said that the museum is thrilled to bring these artists to the FSU community.
“Although they work across different media, Earlonne Woods, Nigel Poor, Hank Willis Thomas and Wendy Red Star have all illuminated historic and structural inequalities and shaped our ongoing conversations about the impacts of mass incarceration, colonialism and institutional racism,” Lynn said. “Our students are currently contending with these issues in their lives and in our classrooms, and it is our hope that these programs will inform and uplift the vital work happening in our community.”