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Happy Hanukkah

Seze — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:38:00 +0000

Artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans talk about their stained glass window in the Museum at Eldridge Street. Their new design is the culminating piece of the 20-plus-year restoration of this national historic landmark, an 1887 synagogue. Smith and Gans’s design features a celestial motif – illuminated stars in a swirling pattern that evokes the Big Bang.
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Stained-glass window by artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans
in the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue
Courtesy Museum at Eldridge Street

When can I move into my ice castle?

Seze — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:18:04 +0000

People visit an ice sculpture for the 25th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival at a park in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province December 23, 2008. The 25th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival will kicked off on January 5, 2009. Picture taken December 23, 2008. (REUTERS/Sheng Li)

A castle constructed of ice prior for the 25th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival at a park in Harbin, China on December 23, 2008. (REUTERS/Sheng Li)

Tara Donovan at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Seze — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:51:35 +0000

I went to Boston for the Brainwaves three day music festival. On Saturday I took a break from the dark theater of warm sounds and went on an excursion to the newly built Institute of Contemporary Art. The ICA is a gorgeous temple of light, a perfect place to look at art. The architecture truly rivals the art. Plus they have the best museum elevator I ever rode on. I was delighted to see that they had a very extensive show of Tara Donovan’s sculptures. Donovan makes beautiful futuristic structures out of very common materials. I was only able to take a few photos in the museum.

Be sure to look at the rest of her work on the Ace Gallery site.

ICA interior photo by Seze Devres

Close up of Tara Donovan’s sculpture by Seze Devres

Close up of Tara Donovan’s sculpture by Seze Devres

ICA Boston site

Skylight Geometry

Seze — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:12:05 +0000

Perelman Building skylights at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
photo by Seze

Olafur Eliasson at the Museum of Modern Art.

Seze — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:26:41 +0000

I really wish I had been able to see Olafur Eliasson Take your time @ SFMOMA in San Francisco. He is one of my absolute favorite artists and I can’t wait to see his show in NY.

Like abstract painting, Mr. Eliasson’s art can be slow to reveal itself. In an installation called “Beauty” a rainbow emerges from a curtain of mist and vanishes. Maybe you see it; maybe you don’t. The illumination in an empty “white” room at P.S. 1 changes color all but imperceptibly as you watch: from white, to faint gray, to pale pollen beige, to lavender, one dissolving into the next like shifts in weather or the readings of a mood ring.

Art Review | Olafur Eliasson

Stand Still; A Spectacle Will Happen
By HOLLAND COTTER
New York Times Published: April 18, 2008