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The Brooklyn Museum presents Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82
Installation view.
BROOKLYN, NY
.- Over the course of their remarkable nearly-twenty-year partnership, immigrant cabinetmakers Anton Kimbel (18221895) and Joseph Cabus (18241898) transformed their business into a leading New York City furniture and decorating firm, and defined a new take on Modern Gothic design for the postCivil War United States. Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 186382 is the first museum exhibition to trace their timeless American success story, presenting new scholarship and fresh insight into the history of the enterprising design team. Over sixty objects are on view, including forty pieces of furniture as well as digitized period photographs, books, a painting, and ephemera that illustrate Kimbel and Cabuss inventive design in a variety of contexts. The exhibition is on view from July 2, 2021, to February 13, 2022, and is cu
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by Claudia Carr Levy
NEW YORK, NY
.- Upon first seeing Jason Stewarts new work, I thought of Filippo Brunelleschis facade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, the foundling hospital in Florence that he was commissioned to design in 1419. The arches of the hospital facade have always captivated me. Brunelleschis arches are perfect in their form and progression: perfect graceful architecture. Why, I wondered, did that architectural image appear as I looked at the series of paintings called Shaping Color? The precision of Jason Stewarts arcs in their spaces on canvas resonate with Brunelleschis architecture. The paintings seem to transpose geometric architectural form into pictorial space. Perhaps this geometry would seem to belie the dominance and importance of color in these paintings. Yet color holds the arcs; the arcs hold color. The more one looks at these works, the more one observes the paradox between color and form. And the mo