Alex and Carol hadn’t been here yet so I had the privilege of going around with first-timers. What a joy.
This was a room talking about how plastic grew into an art medium.
Below is some AI ‘thoughts’ on two pictures that I would happily have on my walls.
- This artwork is titled “On Brooklyn Bridge” (Sur Brooklyn Bridge) and was created by French artist Albert Gleizes in 1917. Pinterest
- The painting is a key example of the Cubism art movement, utilizing fragmented geometric shapes and planes to represent the structure of the bridge.
- Celebrate 40,000 Years of American Art is a 1995-1996 collagraph print created by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, born 1940 of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, died 2025.
- The artwork features a large, stylized white rabbit silhouette against a dark, textured background, reminiscent of petroglyph figures.
- It was published by Goshen College in Indiana and is held in several collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
- The piece uses the rabbit figure as a “trickster” motif to satirize and reframe the narrative of American art history.
This is one of the rare times many pictures are mounted close together, a Gallery Wall of cloud studies.
Somethings gotta give with all these reflections, like some gazillionare will give the necessary zillion dollars for museum glass.
Showing the overlap of cultures when it comes to pots
This is a landmark Richard Serra work in the BCAM building (Broad Contemporary Art Museum not to be confused with The Broad downtown.) From the LACMA website: “Band (2006) may qualify as Richard Serra’s magnum opus, representing the fullest expression of the formal vocabulary proffered by his monumental steel arcs and torqued ellipses of the 1980s and 1990s. Among the most formally elegant and technically complex works of Serra’s oeuvre, this sculpture took him two-and-a-half years to develop. At 12 feet high and more than 70 feet long, the work is vast even by Serra’s monumental standard. Careening aesthetically between bravado and elegance, Band bespeaks the ambitiousness of Serra’s artistic vision and his commitment to its physical realization.”
Here’s a professional shot of the sculpture.
