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The vibrant sculptural works in wire and metal for which Gertrud Goldschmidt is known are complemented in this major retrospective by etchings, prints and textiles, all of which expose her genius for conjuring movement and energy with the simple line
a href= http://www.michaans.com target= _blank Michaan’s Auctions /a Winter Fine Sale on Thursday, December 14th, features notable names lead
How often are paintings hung upside down in museums? It's happened to Matisse, Rothko, Dali, and Van Gogh!
SPEAKING AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY in January 1968, the artist Chryssa detailed a disposition toward creative practice that she described as the “cool mind.”1 The term served to telegraph, via contrast, her disdain for certain endeavors aimed at bridging art and life—all of which, in her view, simply reproduced the disordered flux of the “human pattern.” Of particular concern was what she cast as the fundamentally regressive credo of Happenings, with their freewheeling yet ultimately pointless amalgams of things and deeds: “Let us let things happen.” The cool mind makes things happe...