Stark family donates 28 masterpieces to J. Paul Getty Trust

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[samtheman]

To provide structure for all the little Madreporaria. A place to build, live, grow, be fruitful, multiply.

[dennisw]

Two of the most beautiful sculpture gardens are at Storm King in upstate NY and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass. ........


I've been to Decordava a few times. The grounds and lake are beautiful to walk. I pay the sculptures no attention. Or minimal attention. The ones outside at least. God is a far better author.

[sergeantdave]

I especially enjoy bronze sculptures.

It would be good to see private benefactors pay for more bronze works and encourage good art students to explore working with various metals.

[ladyjane]

Remember when they had the little golf course set up? Each artist did one hole.

[Republicanprofessor]

No, I've never been there. But I'll add it to my list and hit it at another time. It sounds wonderful.

[Republicanprofessor]

I take students to the Gropius House every now and then, linking the trip with the DeCordova.

The Gropius House is really great; a wonderful and practical use of modern architecture.

[Republicanprofessor]

I walked through a garden in Venice. It was a house of a famous American woman.

It's the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice that you are thinking of. Rather a smallish garden (compared to Storm King and the DeCordova), but still nice. The collection itself is a very nice modern assortment; a stark contrast to the rest of Venetian art.

And she was related to Solomon Guggenheim of the NYC museum. I think she was his neice.

Tearing down the old Penn Station was a disaster. The only good thing was that the modern preservation movement was begun after that.

[Republicanprofessor]

I think I'm going to have to start an Art Appreciation class on FR. Add me to your list of students.

Give me a couple of weeks, until the semester has ended. Then I may do about 10 short "lectures" or essays about 19th century Realism (Manet vs. Homer etc.) up through Picasso, Surrealism, Pollock etc. Now that I know how to do images, I can do it pretty succinctly.

Hope the moderators don't mind.

[samtheman]

ok

[Sam Cree]

Art ping.

Let me know if you want on or off the art ping list.

[Republicanprofessor]

I'm new to the NYC area (live in northern NJ). What are your NYC recommendations?

In NYC, there are not a great deal of rolling sculpture parks, however the Storm King Art Center (referenced above) is just an hour north of the city.

http://www.stormking.org/

Also cool in NYC is the Cloisters part of the Metropolitan Museum. It is up in Fort Tryon Park on the northern end of the island. I think you take bus 5 up Madison Ave to the end (and then back bus 5 down 5th, right past the Met).

http://nyckidsarts.org/orgs/one?org_id=437

In NYC, the Museum of Modern Art (West 53rd) has a smallish sculpture garden (more paved than garden, at least before their new addition, which I haven't seen yet). Other great museums are the Guggenheim (for its architecture as much as anything else) about 89th and 5th, the Whitney about 76th and Madison (for American Art).

It would be neat to see your ideas on these fabulous museums before my "course" and then after. Glad you are interested. I'll do it if only one "student" expresses interest.

[John O]

I know the first comment about sculpture gardens was sarcastic, but it is actually a good idea.

Years ago the Smithsonian had an exhibit of Rodin's Gates of Hell (apparently the first time the entire work had been shown). (I love the guy's work but hate his name. Can never remember how it's spelled.) But the entry to the exhibit was a scultpure garden and it was a joy to behold. That's art.

[John O]

sign me up also. Perhaps I'll learn something. Or at least be able to see some more pictures. As you know from the other thread I have very easy demands on art (it's got to look good) and I prefer sculpture to painting

[Sam Cree]

The new Penn Station is awful, not to mention an easy target for terror. I personally still mourn the old one.

An art education class on FR ought to cause some controversy, and fun. Let me know if you start one, so I can ping everyone - or perhaps give you the ping list.

As I mentioned, I theoretically have nothing against abstract art, since I have finally figured out that "realism" is perfectly abstract. Still, I have trouble appreciating alot of the modern stuff and find that I fall back on intuition to judge it.

I like Jacques Barzun's question about if one thinks the old masters did realism, why is it that all their stuff looks so different?

[Sam Cree]

There is a sculpture garden in Key West, quite a nice one, with realistic bronzes of old conchs (early citizens). I believe there may be a matching one in Plymouth Town, Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas, the sister "city."

[SunkenCiv]

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