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POLLYTALK FROM NEW YORK
by Polly Guerin
Septemer 15, 2008
The Allure of Paris, A CULTURAL
LOVE AFFAIR
Oh La La!!! I hear it said, that Art Deco is
not wholly dead, but skipping into town with
Ruhlmann, Mallet-Sevens and even David
Garrard Lowe. I say isn't that just too, too divine?
I'd rather be high brow than not and see Paree
right on the spot. MAD opens its new digs and
African Textiles, Hui's landscapes at the Met, and
least I forget Formed by Color should not be
missed. Here's the scoop!!!
Oh, I say let's don a beret cause we're going to Fashioning the Modern French Interior at the
School of Interior to see over 70 prints from the Pochoir Porfolios of the l920s. Pochoir? My
dear, artisans manually colored these prints in the Style Moderne, later known as Art Deco. The
companion exhibit, Art Deco New York, based on the book by David Garrard Lowe, features
photographic images of celebrated interiors and structures of the era. From Sept. 25 to Dec. 20,
plus the brilliant fall lecture series at www.nysid.edu.
Can you believe it? It's a cultural love affair and pits rivalry between New York and Paris. What
a way to go, what a show. Plan ahead to see Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture
1925-1940 soon to open October 3 at The Museum of the City of New York. I'm getting positively
Frenchy this fall cause this exhibit will reveal New York's devotion to Paris as the city
sought to embrace all that was stylish, sophisticated and chic at the same time that Paris was
infatuated with New York. www.mcny.org.
MAD, MAD positively mad about the Museum of Arts and Design's new digs at 2 Columbus
Circle. And listen up, its FREE admission to the public, 2 day, Sat. Sept. 27 and Sun.
Sept. 28. At the opening, artist Jason Hackenwerth's large large wearable sculptures, known as
Megamites, will be in front of the museum plus Second Lives: Remixing the ordinary; Elegant
Armor: Art of Jewelry; Permanently MAD: Revealing the collection and forward thinking behind the
MAD collection. For info contact 2l2.299.777 or log onto www.madmuseum.org.
You've never seen landscape painting like the master pieces by the most celebrated painter
of the late l7th century China, Wang Hui. His series of twelve vast panoramic landscape
silk hand scrolls, measuring from 40 to 80 feet by long length commemorate the episodes of
Kangxi's second Southern Inspection Tour with such precise delicacy of peaks, valleys, towns and
over 3,000 images of people. With breathtaking authenticity we can enter the world of late
Imperial China. Till Jan. 4, 2009. www.metmuseum.org.
Let's take a trip to Africa. The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End exhibit
illustrates the stunningly diverse classical textile created by arts in West Africa and relates these
art works to contemporary art forms. From. Sept. 30 to March 22, info 212.535.7710. Then
there's the parallel exhibition, Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art opens Monday, Oct. 6
from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. Check out the public programs at
212.988.6780.
Take the color cure go to see Carlos Cruz-Diaz exhibit:
(In) FORMED BY COLOR, at the America's Society open to the
public until December 13th, FREE ADMISSION Gallery hours are
Wed-Sat l2 to 6 PM. One of Latin America's Kinetic art masters,
he focuses on the relationship between color and perception.
Visitors experience it all as they walk through his red, green
and blue color chambers. www.culture@americas-society.org.
Whew!!! Art Deco, Paree, Africa, Latin America--what
a trip, way to go!!! See you next week. Come on, don't be
shy; send me an email sometime. info@pollytalk.com.
by Polly Guerin
Septemer 15, 2008
The Allure of Paris, A CULTURAL
LOVE AFFAIR
Oh La La!!! I hear it said, that Art Deco is
not wholly dead, but skipping into town with
Ruhlmann, Mallet-Sevens and even David
Garrard Lowe. I say isn't that just too, too divine?
I'd rather be high brow than not and see Paree
right on the spot. MAD opens its new digs and
African Textiles, Hui's landscapes at the Met, and
least I forget Formed by Color should not be
missed. Here's the scoop!!!
Oh, I say let's don a beret cause we're going to Fashioning the Modern French Interior at the
School of Interior to see over 70 prints from the Pochoir Porfolios of the l920s. Pochoir? My
dear, artisans manually colored these prints in the Style Moderne, later known as Art Deco. The
companion exhibit, Art Deco New York, based on the book by David Garrard Lowe, features
photographic images of celebrated interiors and structures of the era. From Sept. 25 to Dec. 20,
plus the brilliant fall lecture series at www.nysid.edu.
Can you believe it? It's a cultural love affair and pits rivalry between New York and Paris. What
a way to go, what a show. Plan ahead to see Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture
1925-1940 soon to open October 3 at The Museum of the City of New York. I'm getting positively
Frenchy this fall cause this exhibit will reveal New York's devotion to Paris as the city
sought to embrace all that was stylish, sophisticated and chic at the same time that Paris was
infatuated with New York. www.mcny.org.
MAD, MAD positively mad about the Museum of Arts and Design's new digs at 2 Columbus
Circle. And listen up, its FREE admission to the public, 2 day, Sat. Sept. 27 and Sun.
Sept. 28. At the opening, artist Jason Hackenwerth's large large wearable sculptures, known as
Megamites, will be in front of the museum plus Second Lives: Remixing the ordinary; Elegant
Armor: Art of Jewelry; Permanently MAD: Revealing the collection and forward thinking behind the
MAD collection. For info contact 2l2.299.777 or log onto www.madmuseum.org.
You've never seen landscape painting like the master pieces by the most celebrated painter
of the late l7th century China, Wang Hui. His series of twelve vast panoramic landscape
silk hand scrolls, measuring from 40 to 80 feet by long length commemorate the episodes of
Kangxi's second Southern Inspection Tour with such precise delicacy of peaks, valleys, towns and
over 3,000 images of people. With breathtaking authenticity we can enter the world of late
Imperial China. Till Jan. 4, 2009. www.metmuseum.org.
Let's take a trip to Africa. The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End exhibit
illustrates the stunningly diverse classical textile created by arts in West Africa and relates these
art works to contemporary art forms. From. Sept. 30 to March 22, info 212.535.7710. Then
there's the parallel exhibition, Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art opens Monday, Oct. 6
from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. Check out the public programs at
212.988.6780.
Take the color cure go to see Carlos Cruz-Diaz exhibit:
(In) FORMED BY COLOR, at the America's Society open to the
public until December 13th, FREE ADMISSION Gallery hours are
Wed-Sat l2 to 6 PM. One of Latin America's Kinetic art masters,
he focuses on the relationship between color and perception.
Visitors experience it all as they walk through his red, green
and blue color chambers. www.culture@americas-society.org.
Whew!!! Art Deco, Paree, Africa, Latin America--what
a trip, way to go!!! See you next week. Come on, don't be
shy; send me an email sometime. info@pollytalk.com.
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