Museum of Arts and Design invites visitors into miniature world created by collector Joanna Fisher
The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo. Photo: Jenna Bascom.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Inspired by Venices glamorous Gritti Palace, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature is making its public debut at the Museum of Arts and Design. With a fifteenth-century classical exterior and ten rooms filled with an eclectic range of historical and contemporary craft, art, and design rendered in miniature, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature displays an impressive collection of contemporary art created by more than ten international artists, many of whom are working in miniature for the first time. New York collector, maker, and arts patron Joanna Fisher conceived of the dollhouse in response to the lockdown required by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like so many, she was housebound and felt her world shrink and embraced it, literally. The dollhouse project offered Fisher a f
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Like many people stuck at home over the past year, arts patron, interior designer, and collector Joanna Fisher found herself imagining what her dream house might look like. She found a preexisting building. She shopped for the best vintage furniture to fill its interiors. She commissioned paintings and sculptures from her favorite artists. But after Fisher’s project was complete, she couldn’t exactly move in. You see, Fisher’s fantasy residence is a dollhouse.
Fortunately, we can visit the petite residence, thanks to a new show at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), the Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature,
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Julian Schnabel. Edition of 1,000. Hans Werner Holzwarth, Louise Kugelberg. Hardcover in clamshell box, 33 x 44 cm, 7.83 kg (17.23 lb), 570 pages, numbered and signed by Julian Schnabel ISBN 978-3-8365-8161-5 Multilingual Edition: English, French, German.
NEW YORK, NY
.- I want my life to be in my work, crushed into my painting like a pressed car. If its not, my work is just some stuff. Julian Schnabel said this on the eve of his first solo exhibition in New York in 1979 that made him an overnight success. Since then, he has been synonymous with paintings return to new relevance. Schnabel finds his materials in the fabric of the everyday. His plate paintings use broken crockery to form an improbable picture, ground in everyday materials, while he also paints on velvet, market stall covers, army tarps, kabuki theater backdrops, and boxing ring floorsmaterials that lend their histo