4 NYC Exhibits You Can’t Miss
Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical
An influential and game changing figure in 20th-century design, Austrian-Italian designer Ettore Sottasass had an incredibly productive career. The Met Breuer opens a six-decade survey of his work, in a range of media– including architectural, interior, ceramics, textiles and pattern, painting, photography and possibly his most iconic design, the lipstick-red typewriter he designed for Olivetti. The exhibition presents Sottsass’s work, objects that inspired him, as well as the influence he’s had on designers working today.
The Met
945 Madison Ave
New York, NY, 10021
Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool To Warm
Spring and bloom permeates throughout this exhibition. The title, “Transition from Cool to Warm,” refers to the use and return to watercolors Anselm Kiefer produced from 1974 to 1977. The cool, marking the shades of blues used for sky, and the sea transforming into the warm color of nude female skin. His most recent artist books are included within the exhibit, along with a new series of landscape paintings—in some, you can see the artist’s palette and studio through the distant trees.
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10075
Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler
Furniture by designer Robert Stadler is now on display in tandem with sculptures by Isamu Noguchi, at the Noguchi museum. The museum itself is a dedication to the late Japanese-American artist’s work, and continues the museum’s collaborations with contemporary artists. Curated by Dakin Hart in collaboration with Stadler himself, visitors are encouraged to find relationships and draw comparisons between Stadler and Noguchi’s work – concepts such as art, design, functionality, aesthetic, material, and space.
Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road
Queens, NY 11106
Calder: Hypermobility
Calder: Hypermobility focuses on the extraordinary range of movement and sound in the work of Alexander Calder. The show is a somewhat of a parting gift from Jay Sanders, who was named the museum’s first curator of performance in 2012, and he left to lead the the non-profit Artists Space. The exhibit brings together rare and key sculptors and provides an opportunity to view the work as Calder intended–in motion.
Whitney Museum
99 Gansevoort St
New York, NY 10014
Photo taken by Samantha Odo of Precondo.ca
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