Category: The Jewish Museum

Marta Minujin: Arte! Arte! Arte! to Open at The Jewish Museum in November

The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side

 

 

 

Marta Minujín in her studio on rue Delambre in Paris, with her first multicolored mattresses, 1963. Marta Minujín Archive. © Marta Minujín, courtesy of Henrique Faria, New York and Herlitzka & Co., Buenos Aires.

Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! will include nearly 100 works organized to reflect Minujín’s bold experimentation over six decades. The exhibition will chart Minujín’s influential career in Buenos Aires as well as time spent in Paris, New York, and Washington, DC, through a range of pioneering, mattress-based soft sculptures; fluorescent large-scale paintings; psychedelic drawings and performances; and vintage film footage. The artist’s ephemeral works – happenings, participatory installations, and monumental public art – will be presented through rarely-seen photographs, video, and other documentation.

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Times Square Arts + The Jewish Museum to Unveil a 50-foot-tall ‘Sculpture of Dreams’ by Marta Minujin in November

Sculpture, The Jewish Museum, Times Square Arts

 

 

 

Sculpture of Dreams by Marta Minujin in Times Square

Presented by Times Square Arts and the Jewish Museum, New York, Sculpture of Dreams is Argentinian conceptual pop artist Marta Minujín’s first public sculpture in New York City, and one of the largest art installations hosted in Times Square to date. Minujín calls the vibrant, 16-piece inflatable an “anti-sculpture,” a reference to her work’s playful and subversive materiality — edgeless, soft, and ephemeral. On view November 8th.

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The Jewish Museum will Displaying Temporary Mural by Artist Lawrence Weiner

Art Installation, Carnegie Hill, The Jewish Museum

 

 

 

Artist Lawrence Weiner Mural on the facade of The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum has been approved by NYC Landmarks to display a multi-story mural installed at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 92nd Street with the neon-blue message, ‘All the Stars in the Sky have the Same Face‘. It was originally designed in 2011 by American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, with lettering in Hebrew, Arabic and English, and is on view November, 2020.

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