Vitro Nasu

Delft plates with images of nuclear power stations

Saw this with Jurgen Trautwein

Ann Agee

<> <>

Kathryn Clark – on Mel Robson

The Chateau de Groussay
Chateau blue and white

Jared Fitzgerald

See Paul Scott

More Qin Fua

Kurt Schwitters (Dada, sound poetry, the first installation artist)
(via)

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn under threat from property developers
German artist’s ‘outstanding’ unfinished work in Cumbria could be sold after art institutions refuse to save it

Derek Wallcott museum closing

2009 – archpaper – Frank Lloyd Wright Obsession is more novel than we thought
(The Women by T C Boyle is based on Frank Lloyd Wright)

T C Boyle homepage

Page 2 – from his homepage

Taliesin West –
Frank Lloyd Wright and his curious asian collection (Previous post)

Performance Test (1969)

Vito Acconci homepage

His wiki

Vito Dies at 77 (art news)

Vito Hannibal Acconci (January 24, 1940 – April 28, 2017)[2] was an American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.

(Saw this at the gallery in Soho).

Question everything

digital image
Portrait from the artwork Veto Vito by Jonathan Harris.

“My early work nearly ruined my career,” Vito told Harris by email, “and also nearly killed me,” he told later him in person. “What does a body artist do as a body grows old? It seemed necessary to find a new direction.”
In the mid-1970s, Acconci stopped doing performances, and turned to architecture, to which he’s been committed ever since.

Bric a Bra (links to his giant bra installation)

or see it here

Hannah Weiner, Scott Burton, Anne Waldman, Vito Acconi, Bernadette Mayer, Eduardo Costa and John Perreault, NYC, 1969
photo via

Google Vito Acconci

Eileen Gray the Irish Designer

Sinead O’Connor
Sinead O’Connor photo by Jane Bown

Oscar Wilde

Photo by Hiroshi Sugimoto (via)

quotes

Frank McCourt

High Hopes in Ireland (see Irish art here)

Breakfast on Pluto

The wind that shakes the Barley

Happy St Patrick’s day!

Le Corbusier and Vincent Perez
Happy birthday Vincent Perez (June 10)

V.Perez

The Price of Desire features Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier
Besides Vincent Perez Orla Brady as Eileen Gray and Alanis Morissette as lover “Damia” in The Price of Desire, directed by Mary McGuckian,

Eileen Gray:Innovative Designer – see her 28 million dollors chair.

A young Zaha Hadid stands in front of the Trevi fountain in Rome. Image from her family archives.

Observer Obit

In her own words.

on march 31, 2016, world renowned architect zaha hadid passed away at the age of 65. born in baghdad in 1950, she studied mathematics before enrolling at london’s architectural association in 1972. by 1979 she had established zaha hadid architects, and quickly rose to global prominence. working with office partner patrik schumacher, the studio utilized a host of innovative technologies that often resulted in unexpected and dynamic architectural forms.

Guardian Obit

Zaha was an outsider and upfront about the unfair treatment she experienced as a woman, a foreigner and a designer of expensive, weird-looking buildings – a triple whammy. She did not fit the stereotypical white male profession of registered architects. Jealousy and prejudice failed to bar her way, but it took its toll.

Reaction from Social Media

Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates at White Cube

Theaster Gates’ practice includes sculpture, installation, performance and urban interventions that aim to bridge the gap between art and life. Gates works as an artist, curator, urbanist and facilitator and his projects attempt to instigate the creation of cultural communities by acting as catalysts for social engagement that leads to political and spatial change.

Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada

via

The Unknown Purifoy

Noah Purifoy

via

Burton died of complications due to AIDS on December 29, 1989, at Cabrini Medical Center in New York City.
See Aids Memorial on FB here.

Roberta Smith (obit)

Mr. Burton, a small, wiry man known for his erudition, verbal precision and explosive laugh, worked as a critic and an editor for Art News and Art in America before becoming a full-time artist.

He was inspired by tensile chairs and tables of Rietveld, the Dutch De Stijl designer who, like Piet Mondrian, specialized in simple geometries and primary colors. Further inspiration came from the round stone table and stools that Constantin Brancusi created as a memorial for the fallen of World War I in Tirgu Jiu, Rumania. But he also took ideas from Art Deco designs, the common American lawn chair, as well as rustic or Adirondack furniture made from bark-covered tree trunks and branches.

Scott Burton

Scott Burton

His wide-ranging body of writing, which often champions positions thought to be antagonistic and advocates for underdogs, is united by a strong and consistent underlying philosophy—his belief that art should be accessible, personal, and affective, that it should challenge the elitism, exclusivity, and hierarchies that plague the art world in favor of producing subjective and eclectic emotional responses and direct connections with viewers. He sought to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, placing emphasis on temporal and performative works because they are subject to the same mortal span as the viewer and deny the impossible permanence of the object.

(via)

Mahogany Table by Scott Burton

Cherry, Mahogany and Scott Burton

Chorus of Chairs..

via
Hannah Weiner, Scott Burton, Anne Waldman, Vito Acconi, Bernadette Mayer, Eduardo Costa and John Perreault, NYC, 1969

(repost)

Homepage

Intelligent Life EILEEN GRAY’S UNDERRATED PAINTING

She should be world-famous for her innovative designs—and would be, had Le Corbusier not intervened. But, as Michael Watts reports, her story now has a happy ending, thanks partly to a new film

Gray was a bisexual Anglo-Irish aristocrat who became a free-spirited member of the bohemian classes. She is said to have driven around Paris, where she spent most of her life, in a Chenard-Walcker roadster with Damia, her celebrity girlfriend, and Damia’s pet panther. Even at the age of 80, Gray thought of buying a Vespa scooter. When she died, in 1976, she was 98 and still painting and experimenting with materials such as Plexiglass.

Screen
screen Via

Wiki

Design Museum

28 million dollors chair.
The unique and remarkable ‘Dragons’ armchair was acquired from Miss Gray by Suzanne Talbot, the first patron to provide her with an opportunity to create a complete environment. The exotic, symbolist character of the piece situates it conceptually within the first phase of Miss Gray’s creative cycle.
The Mad Tea Party (previous post)

Collection of Funny chairs, Bat, Elephant, Dragon chairs etc.

via

R.I.P Frei Otto – Named 2015 Pritzker Laureate (Archdaily)

Otto Frei (Cavvia net) (See more designs here.)

Dazeen obit (image via )

Shigeru Ban won last year Pritzker

Dreaming of a treehouse (youtube)

Jan Palach
Jan Palach was born on 11 August 1948- an activist who set himself on fire in in 1969.. Palach’s protest caused extraordinary reaction both in the Czech Republic and abroad.

These web pages present the life story of Jan Palach

His schoolmates liked him for his nice and friendly nature. He was quiet, pensive, and very well-read. Since his early childhood, he was interested in nature, technology, and history.

Poetry and Architecture, Architecture and Poetry
by John Hejduk David Shapiro

The Funeral of Jan Palach

When I entered the first meditation
I escaped the gravity of the object,
I experienced the emptiness,
And I have been dead a long time.

When I had a voice you could call a voice,
My mother wept to me:
My son, my beloved son,
I never thought this possible

I’ll follow you on foot.
Halfway in mud and slush the microphones picked up.
It was raining on the houses;
It was snowing on the police-cars.

The astronauts were weeping,
Going neither up nor out.
And my own mother was brave enough she looked
And it was alright I was dead.

—David Shapiro

When I read of the sacrifice of Jan Palach, I was reading of a heroism toward which I had aspired but recoiled. But it is not for everyone to be such a sacrifice, as many have said, it is not even easy to be a disciple of such a hero. Indeed, Palach finally asked others to refrain from a mechanical martyrdom.

On the art of collaboration
He is perhaps most proud of his long collaboration with the late architect John Hejduk, who served as dean of Cooper Union’s school of architecture for many years. In 1991, a poem Shapiro had written about the Czechoslovak student Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion, was engraved on a plaque as part of a memorial designed by Hejduk and mounted on the grounds of Prague Castle in the Czech Republic.

Sketch for house of suicide by John Hejduk

Pataphysics – interview of David Shapiro

Norman Foster, Hiroshi Sugimoto receive Isamu Noguchi Award

Norman Foster (Arch daily)

Acts of God – Hiroshi Sugimoto (see more here)

Related links
Click to see large (
(Some Living American Women Artists)

Click to see large DaVinci Chianti 2012
Photo by Fung Lin Hall

Mao’s Last Banquet by Zhang Hongtu

Stanley Theater by Sugimoto – (scroll down)