Art in 2020 is increasingly the domain of the young, with millennials, Gen Xers, Generation Y and Z inaugurating change in museums. These visitors have little time to walk around art museums, so demand that art be clearly organized. In the Instagram age, when messages are quickly read, with words summarized, connections must be quickly and clearly made, so boredom does not set in, and the message is read before the next text or newest artist comes in. We are now a social audience. Artist communities have been influential and collaborative, influenced by what art is being made and shown, and the issues and discoveries that propelled it. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City has reorganized its collection to group like artwork together, leading viewers to quickly notice and assess those connections, be they color, topic, material, style, directionality or medium. The … [Read more...] about A NEW WAY OF SEEING: ART FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM AT REINVENTED MOMA
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Calder Shadows at Venus Over Manhattan Gallery
By Nancy Nesvet Manhattan, NY - Organized in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, “Calder Shadows,” a beautiful and masterful showing of the mobiles and stabiles of Alexander Calder (1898-1976), is on view through December 21 at the Venus Over Manhattan Gallery in New York City. The exhibition arranges stabiles and mobiles on the periphery of a large circle in the center of the floor, and provides low lighting so the central hanging mobile and the surrounding mobiles and stabiles on the floor created shadows on the background white walls and floor of the gallery. The resulting two-dimensional moving and still shadow images present angular forms indicating strange animals, and imaginary creatures, while the very peaceful jazz music adds to an otherworldly panorama. The 10 mobiles and stabiles in this exhibition, of painted sheet metal, brass, wire rods and wire range from … [Read more...] about Calder Shadows at Venus Over Manhattan Gallery