Snapshot odds and ends

February 16, 2014

A few images from in and around MoMA.

A book with bite

Lucas Samaras, "Book 4," 1962

Scoping out sculptures

MoMA visitors click photos of the closed Sculpture Garden

Tread on me

Some of Isa Gerzken's works were presented on the ground

Layered reflections

From an upper gallery window, we catch not only reflections but a view of the exhibits (and visitors) below

On art

John Baldessari, "What Is Painting," 1966-68

Lone boot

Outside the museum, abandoned footwear becomes its own installation

Sunday morning at MoMA

February 16, 2014 in Art

Wandered through several exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art this AM. The Frank Lloyd Wright installation was of course impressive, but I was particularly delighted by the Isa Genzken retrospective (on through March 10). A good variety of Genzken's work is represented, with sculpture, assemblage, collage, photography, and paintings on display: at turns playful, severe, provocative.

Above: Several images from the Isa Genzken retrospective, as well as a view of "Lightweeds," 2006, by Simon Heijdens.

Frozen flora

February 11, 2014

On 51st Street, in advance of Valentine's Day, a bouquet of roses tossed on the sidewalk was, oddly enough, encased in ice; it's been a weird winter.

Two views of a landscape

February 06, 2014

A butte and trees in the distance (a scene fro Istanbul), processed in darks and lights:

Marvels in marginalia

February 05, 2014

From the superb Public Domain Review, a short feature on the illuminated beasts that dance in the margins of a 15th century Book of Hours; the artist is of the Ghent-Bruges school. The full work is at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Bright bubbles

January 28, 2014

I'm bracing for more winter weather by remembering better, brighter times: say, living vicariously through Istanbul street art.

Oh, snow

January 24, 2014

What's that you say? More snow tomorrow? Bracing for it ...

From the Basilica Cistern

January 09, 2014

The Basilica Cistern was a peaceful, generally quiet little Istanbul tourist attraction when we went -- wonder if it's different on a summer afternoon. Anyhow, go for the Medusa, stay for the weeping column.

Their eyes were ...

January 07, 2014

On a side street in Sultanahmet, we came across a row of billboards, boasting only the remnants of ads that had been torn down. Watchful eyes made up some of the remains.