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Saturday, January 7, 2023

Iconic

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:59 pm

Related material — Icon Parking and . . .

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Icon Parking

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 am

For the title, see Icon Parking in a search for 54th  in this journal.

For related iconic remarks, click on either image below.

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This post was suggested by the Dec. 30, 2016, date of the
death in Nuremberg of mathematician Wolf Barth.  The first
image above is from a mathematics-related work by
John von Neumann discussed here on that date.

See also Wolf Barth in this journal for posts that largely
concern not the above Barth, but an artist of the same name.
For posts on the mathematician only, see Barth + Kummer.

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Cultist Drama

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 pm

Rosalind Krauss on the drama of 'the cultist space of modern art'

From a post of last Friday, June 2

See also Transformers in this journal.

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

  — Transformers  (2007)

Friday, June 2, 2017

Directions

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:06 am

Click to enlarge.

See also Transformers in this journal.

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Art Spaces (For Frank Sinatra and Janet Leigh)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:42 pm

From The New York Times  today —

MoMA’s Makeover Rethinks the Presentation of Art

"The new design calls for more gallery space and a transformed
main lobby, physical changes that, along with the re-examination
of art collections and diversity, represent an effort to open up MoMA
and break down the boundaries defined by its founder, Alfred Barr.

'It’s a rethinking of how we were originally conceived,' Glenn D. Lowry,
the museum’s director, said in an interview at MoMA. 'We had created
a narrative for ourselves that didn’t allow for a more expansive reading
of our own collection, to include generously artists from very different
backgrounds.'"

Next to Icon Parking

Friday, December 11, 2015

Street View

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:00 pm

Continued from Once Upon a Matrix  (November 27, 2015).

Click image below to enlarge.

Icon Parking, W. 54th St.

“… Which makes it a gilt-edged priority that one  of us 
 gets into that Krell lab and takes that brain boost.”

— American adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest , 1956

Midrash —

"Remember me to Herald Square."

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Event

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:30 pm

"Bauhaus Designs for Modern Life
Come to the Harvard Art Museums
for this Gallery Talk at 12:30."

Another design —

Street view in Oslo, August 2014 :  

Take a walk on the wild side… or not.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Night of the Iguana Club

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:45 am

“We specialize in bachelorette parties.”

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Tuesday September 13, 2005

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:00 am
Lutheran Rhythm,
continued:

Death on 9/11

Confession in 'The Seventh Seal'

Al Casey Dies at 89;
Early Jazz Guitarist

By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005

Al Casey, a guitarist whose playful acoustic rhythms and solos were a defining feature of Fats Waller’s band in the 1930’s and 1940’s, died on Sunday [9/11] in Manhattan. He was 89….

Mr. Casey played and recorded with Louis Armstrong in 1944 when both were recognized as leading jazz musicians in the Esquire magazine readers’ poll….

A 90th birthday celebration for Mr. Casey, scheduled for Thursday evening at St. Peter’s Church, 54th Street and Lexington Avenue, will now be his musical memorial service, open to the public.

That’s St. Peter’s Lutheran Church.

See also the previous entry.

Saturday, November 20, 2004

Saturday November 20, 2004

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 am
Janet's Tea Party

From October 5, 2004:
 

For Janet Leigh,
who died on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004:
 

The Manchurian Candidate

MARCO — What's your last name?

ROSIE — Chaney.  I'm production assistant for a man named Justin who had two hits last season.  I live on 54th Street, a few doors from the Modern Museum of Art, of which I'm a "tea privileges" member,  no cream.  I live at 53 West 54th Street, apartment 3B.  Can you remember that?

MARCO —  Yes.

On the redesigned
Museum of Modern Art,
11 West 53rd Street:

"… the ultimate judgment will have to wait: Taniguchi himself told a MoMA curator who'd complimented him that considering the building without the art in it is like admiring the tea cup without the green tea. Next month the museum will have art on the walls and crowds in the galleries—and then the tea ceremony will begin."

— Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek,
    issue dated Oct. 11, 2004

 

The art of Theo van Doesburg suggests
the following "tea party" mini-exhibit:

 

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From
the book
Tangram

 

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From the book Tangram

Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Tuesday October 5, 2004

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 am

Tea Privileges

On Janet Leigh,
 who died Sunday:

The Manchurian Candidate

MARCO — What’s your last name?

ROSIE — Chaney.  I’m production assistant for a man named Justin who had two hits last season.  I live on 54th Street, a few doors from the Modern Museum of Art, of which I’m a “tea privileges” member,  no cream.  I live at 53 West 54th Street, apartment 3B.  Can you remember that?

MARCO —  Yes.

ROSIE — El Dorado 5-9970.  Can you remember that?

MARCO —  Yes.

On the redesigned
Museum of Modern Art,
11 West 53rd Street:

“… the ultimate judgment will have to wait: Taniguchi himself told a MoMA curator who’d complimented him that considering the building without the art in it is like admiring the tea cup without the green tea. Next month the museum will have art on the walls and crowds in the galleries—and then the tea ceremony will begin.”

— Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek,
    issue dated Oct. 11, 2004

Related material:

Review of A Man and His Art, a book of paintings by Frank Sinatra:

“… he’s a solid abstractionist with an excellent eye for color, composition and geometric precision.”

Booklist (Jan. 15, 1992)

“Blue Eyes took his Sunday painting seriously.”

Eric Banks in Artforum Magazine,
    September 2004

See also
Art Wars.

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