- sculpture

Metropolitan Museum visit #3 (excluding visits in IDC)

Alex Greetham — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:23:07 +0000

On Friday, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the New American Wing. I remember going there before and liking it, but when I went to see the redone exhibit, I was amazed at how it turned out. It looked like a courtyard, with a fountain and sculptures, leading to two old-fashioned electric lights, leading down to some steps, leading down to a facade of what appears to be a mansion. Inside the "mansion", there were various rooms like those of the wealthy in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Tim Burton Exhbit

Alex Greetham — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:51:18 +0000

Unfortunately, I didn't get to see the Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA yet, but I hope I get to. (I had to do a lot of work this weekend.) I just think that Tim Burton is a great artist/director/producer with his macabre yet comical imagry and his eccentricity. Although the only movie of his I know I saw was The Nightmare Before Christmas, I do hope one day to see Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice, among other movies.

Markers Exhibit

aimee_xoxo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:51:52 +0000

For our IDC presentation, my group and I were assigned the Markers exhibit in Madison Square Park. To be completely honest, I have passed by Madison Square Park tons of times but I had never noticed the exhibit before ! So when I went to view them, I was genuinely surprised by what I saw. The color of each of the sculptures contrast with the greenery around them and at first you don't really know what to make of the sculptures. Weirdly enough I thought of animals, then I thought of shapes, and then I decided just to read the description.

Markers: Madison Square Park

maxilia — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:41:35 +0000

Many sculptors often have their work appraised because of the obvious talent that is required to depict a recognizable object. For instance, a sculpture of a naked human body is appreciated because of the exactness it portrays in size relations, forms, and angles and even perhaps the facial expression. However, Mel Kendrick's work exhibited in Madison Square park named "Markers" is unique in its abstract content. Viewers strain their eyes to recognize something, anything, a chair-like- shape or even a geometrical shape.

Additional Thoughts on Coffin's Untitled Sculptures

sarasanders — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:47:58 +0000

After presenting information about Peter Coffin's Untitled Sculptures to the class, I had some additional thoughts on the exhibition. Coffin's choice of a construction method of build was significant. In the construction method the sculptor, "is usually concerned more with the definition of space than with the mass, affording experiences quite new in the field," (Taylor 129). In Untitled Sculptures, the definition of space is emphasized. Since the silhouettes are only one inch thick, they lack the volume people associate sculpture with.

And what do the Markers mark?

Patty — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:07:57 +0000

In the center of a park on crossroad of 23rd Street and Broadway five black and white sculptures stand tall and proud. One, who walks by there on their way to work might never give it any attention, another, who is searching places like this one might be charmed and inspired by it.

Mel Kendrick's "Markers"

freddie — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:53:30 +0000

New York sculptor Mel Kendrick's 5 10 foot plus stone sculptors are in Madison Square Park, just a 2 minute walk from Baruch. I am pretty tired of saying this but.. I have no idea what to make of this. There are 5 big stone sculptors, alternating black and white, different, unconventional shapes, smack dab in the middle of Madison Square Park. After reading a bit about his style, all I can make of this is that he made a bunch of grooves and cuts, and cut out pieces to have a bunch of shapes.

Madison Square Park

Jolene — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:27:53 +0000

Museum of Art and Design

Jolene — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:40:48 +0000

LOVE sculpture in N.YC

aimee_xoxo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:45:39 +0000