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Pan American Unity, a 30-ton, 74-foot-wide-by-22-foot mural by Diego Rivera, undergoes installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 16, 2021, where it will be on view starting Monday, June 28. A four-year, multimillion-dollar undertaking involving mechanical engineers, architects, art historians and handlers, fresco experts and riggers from the U.S. and Mexico will allow more people to see the monumental 10-panel fresco, long tucked away in the lobby of a theater at City College of San Francisco. Cayce Clifford/The New York Times.
by Carol Pogash
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- For decades the monumental 10-panel fresco by Diego Rivera depicting a continent linked by creativity has been mounted in the lobby of a theater at City College of San Francisco. There, somewhat tucked away from the art world, it has been cared for as a labor of love by a de facto guardian who has long dreamed of finding a way to allow more people to experie
Ivan Morley s third solo exhibition with Bortolami Gallery opens in New York
Ivan Morley, Fandango, 2021. Oil and KY jelly on panel, 40 x 43 x 1.5 in (101.6 x 109.2 cm)
NEW YORK, NY
.-Bortolami Gallery is presenting Hyperion, Ivan Morleys third solo exhibition with the gallery. Morley s distinct, vivid compositions are sewn in embroidery thread with watercolor on canvas or painted on glass that is slicked with water-based lubricant, peeled away with the aid of razors, and transferred to panel in one giant, layered skin of sumptuous oils.
The embroidered works are like lavish tapestries modeled in a chiaroscuro of near-like color palettes. Their chromatic combinations surprise, evoking the ethos and immediacy of gestural painting despite their slow and methodical creation by sewing machine. Morley dampens the thread to stretch the canvas, causing the watercolor underneath to bleed up through the surface. This effectively softens the edges in the work, transforming tapestry int
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Madeline Hollander at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021. Courtesy of Bortolami Gallery. Photo: Nicholas Calcott.
This is often the case for the 35-year-old professional dancer-turned-artist. Where you and I see chaos, Hollander sees choreography: New York City traffic, flood mitigation systems, environmental change. The product of extensive research, her work transmutes the abstract patterns that govern our daily lives into elegant dance performances, heady gallery installations and now, for the first time, film.
The 16-minute video at the Whitney documents Hollander’s search to find flatwings, a new breed of Polynesian field cricket that, due to genetic mutation, has lost the ability to chirp. For the insects, it’s both a gift and a curse: They are now essentially invisible to their predators an acoustically oriented parasitic fly that once threatened to wipe out their entire population but also invisible to their potential mates. The crickets’ ability to adapt is lik