Mao as Marilyn, Louis Kahn, Strange Plastic Garden: Chelsea Art
"Interior, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece" (1951), by Louis I. Kahn, is part of the late architect's exhibition "Building a View" at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York. Source: Lori Bookstein Fine Art via Bloomberg
"The White Church, No. 2, Rockport, Massachusetts" (1930-36) by Louis I. Kahn. Source: Lori Bookstein Fine Art via Bloomberg
"Mountain Road No. 1, Woodstock, New York"
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"Mountain Road No. 1, Woodstock, New York" (1931) by Louis I. Kahn.
"Mountain Road No. 1, Woodstock, New York" (1931) by Louis I. Kahn. Source: Lori Bookstein Fine Art via Bloomberg
"Ai God is Catching Ghost"
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"Ai God is Catching Ghost" (2011) by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. The digital print on canvas is part of "The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages" exhibition at Postmasters Gallery.
"Ai God is Catching Ghost" (2011) by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. The digital print on canvas is part of "The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages" exhibition at Postmasters Gallery. Source: Postmasters Gallery via Bloomberg
"After Maorilyn Maoroe...
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"After Maorilyn Maoroe got biatchslaped by flying hotdogs in Mahler Gobi desert, Grass Mud Horse invites her for a beer pong game" (2011) by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. The digital print on canvas is part of "The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages" exhibition at Postmasters Gallery.
"After Maorilyn Maoroe got biatchslaped by flying hotdogs in Mahler Gobi desert, Grass Mud Horse invites her for a beer pong game" (2011) by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. The digital print on canvas is part of "The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages" exhibition at Postmasters Gallery. Source: Postmasters Gallery via Bloomberg
"Clinic FARMACY"
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The vertical garden installation "Clinic FARMACY," by Natalie Jeremijenko, on the facade of Postmasters Gallery in New York. The work utilizes Tyvek bags instead of flower pots.
The vertical garden installation "Clinic FARMACY," by Natalie Jeremijenko, on the facade of Postmasters Gallery in New York. The work utilizes Tyvek bags instead of flower pots. Source: Postmasters Gallery via Bloomberg
It’s too late to get yourself a new house designed by Louis I. Kahn, but how about a drawing?
About 60 are on view at Lori Bookstein Fine Art. There are mountain ridges, fishing huts on the Amalfi Coast, New England churches and Egyptian granite quarries. Executed with a sure hand, the works examine how man-made structures interact with space and nature.
The early pieces are influenced by Kahn’s Beaux Arts training. A 1927 pencil drawing of a castle tower in England is so perfectly detailed it looks like a black-and-white photograph. Later works get more abstract. “Cliff Road, No. 3, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada” conveys the space with only a handful of lines.
The best may be several terrific pastels from the year Kahn spent as a resident at the American Academy in Rome.
“Louis I. Kahn: Building a View” is up through July 7. Prices range from $8,000 to $125,000. 138 Tenth Ave.; +1-212- 750-0949; http://www.loribooksteinfineart.co.
Tyvek Garden
The facade of the Postmasters Gallery half a block north is adorned with rows of white plastic bags. Each has a central slash within a red X with fresh grass or leaves emerging from some of the openings.
The unusual garden is by Natalie Jeremijenko, who uses Tyvek bags instead of flower pots. The installation is part of her ongoing Farmacy project designed to improve environmental health and produce food.
Soil-filled plastic containers cost $300. They are displayed in a shopping cart at the gallery entrance. The harvest will be sold at the Union Square Greenmarket throughout the summer.
Mao in Drag
Inside, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is depicted as a six-armed Buddhist deity, brandishing an iPhone, a Twitter bird and a calligraphy brush.
The collage is part of “The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages,” a brash exhibition by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung who criticizes China’s censorship by ridiculing its leaders.
Mao, for instance, wears Marilyn Monroe’s platinum wig and the low-cut white dress she wore in “The Seven Year Itch” (the original garment fetched $4.6 million at a California auction last week). The hybrid stands atop a Campbell Soup can next to a furry white mammal. Surrounded by smiling babies, red lanterns, floating hot dogs and bamboo trees, it’s a hodgepodge of familiar Western and Eastern symbols.
Works come in editions of five, each is $8,888. (“Eight is a lucky Chinese number,” said Magdalena Sawon, the gallery owner.) The show runs through July 9 at 459 W. 19th St.; +1-212- 727-3323; http://www.postmastersart.com
(Katya Kazakina is a reporter for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own.)
To contact the reporter of this story: Katya Kazakina in New York at kkazakina@bloomberg.net.
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