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The Huntington Gets Hip
“Made in L.A.” represents an effort by the Huntington to expand its contemporary art programming and present more artists of color.
Monica Majoli’s installation for the Huntington Art Museum’s “Made in L.A. 2020: a version.” Her series “Study for Blueboy,” named after an early gay magazine, focuses on centerfolds from 1976 to 1979, the halcyon years of gay liberation.Credit.The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens; Joshua White
April 20, 2021Updated 1:49 p.m. ET
SAN MARINO, Calif. The juxtaposition is striking. In one gallery, Thomas Gainsborough’s classic 18th-century oil painting, “The Blue Boy,” gazes out from the ornate walls, having just undergone an extensive restoration. In another gallery, an installation by the Los Angeles artist Monica Majoli explores Blueboy magazine, one of the earliest gay publications in the U.S., through sultry images of scantily dressed young men.
View of the Frick Madison featuring Giovanni Bellini’s
St. Francis in the Desert, ca. 1476–78, with a trapezoidal window conceived by Marcel Breuer. Photo: Joe Coscia.
ON THE FACE OF IT, the reinstallation of selected works of art from the Frick Collection in the Breuer building at 875 Madison Avenue provides a refreshing change. After as much as a century in the same setting, masterpieces once embedded in a Gilded Age mansion are now out on their own. Hung on the plain walls of a concrete Brutalist icon, spaced apart from each other, paintings, sculptures, porcelains, two rugs, and some great eighteenth-century French furniture have temporarily jettisoned the ornate wood paneling, lavish curtain window treatments, and decorous fountain courtyard of what was once Henry Clay Frick’s private home.
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Experiencing museums as they should be: Gloriously empty artdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.