hour almost close eye one glass side other looked

to be looked at (from the other side of the glass) with one eye, close to, for almost an hour
buenos aires 1918 (moma)

(please forgive my recent inactivity on the l'oscillation de la chèvre aveugle [aka the (bl)ind(o)scillating(g)oat],
i have been: out of town/working on some films/uninspired with watching film and overly inspired with breathing [like duchamp's "breather"]/and finally, working too much, but, i hope to quicken my step soon)

serra, photographer of the sun

images from the richard serra exhibition at the moma, nyc.


























enjoyment from looking very close at these sublime abstractions, inspired by the tales of dostoevsky getting close to paintings by standing on a chair.

do people look or talk about these work's rich surfaces?
a great study of serra's work would be to make an imaginary grid on the surface of one sculpture, and photograph each square foot (for another example of this technique, see the leonardo da vinci book leonardo: the last supper by the university of chicago, esp of john). this would surely be more informative than the humdrum and bunkum of most commentators.

for more abstractions go here

other abstractions of the sun, at the moma

dorothea rockburne: scalar 1971 (details) moma

(through a glass darkly)

guillermo kuitca: untitled 1992 (details) moma

marcel duchamp: network of stoppages, 1914 (detail) moma

joan miro: the birth of the world, 1925 (details) moma

jean dubuffet: soul of the underground from the series materiologies, december 1959 (details) moma

franz kline: chief, 1950 (detail) moma

donald judd: relief, 1961 (detail) moma

prouvé in queens

jean prouvé house beside the queensboro bridge, awaiting its sale at christie's.
more images here

richard serra

richard serra sculpture: forty years

new richard serra catalogue available, and moma exhibition soon......

richard serra sculpture: forty years
june 3–september 10, 2007, moma new york

manhattan

highlights from recent trip to manhattan.

moma:

otto piene.
untitled (smoke drawing). 1959

arnulf rainer.
bird scratches. 1968

william anastasi.
60 minutes. (1987)

william anastasi.
untitled (11.13.01 wynn kramarsky 14:50). 2001

jean dubuffet.
soul of the underground. vence, december. 1959

andy warhol.

empire. 1964 day

andy warhol.
empire. 1964 evening

robert rauschenberg.
untitled (asheville citizen). c. 1952

the metropolitan:

petrus christus.
portrait of a carthusian. 1446

hans membling.
tommaso di folco portinari (1428–1501). 1470

the frick collection:

johannes vermeer.
mistress and maid. 1665-1670

giovanni bellini.
st. francis in the desert. 1480

the morgan library:

hans memling.
kneeling female donor with st. anne & young man at prayer with st. william of maleval. 1470

and the man about town:

the chrysler building. 1930 william van alen (thinking of warhol)

seagrams building, 1957 mies van der rohe

central park

paul rudolph house beekman place

the east village in the rain