Rad Ron Arad?
I managed to see the Ron Arad exhibit at MoMA recently. The show was quite a production – clear evidence of the status that star designers can rise to in the MoMA pantheon. The organizers must have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the installation. It was a large mobius-strip like structure made of stainless-steel boxes, each one individually shaped and fitted into a curvy grid. The whole thing must have been 70 or 80 feet long and maybe 15 feet tall. Chairs and othe
Installation Saga
Last week, I opened my first solo exhibit of new work in eight years. That’s too long for a working artist. I’ve been busy with other things – I did manage to write half a book and help put together a major traveling retrospective, after all. I also lost two important gallery affiliations (Cummins and Drutt) about 2003. So this new show at Snyderman Gallery is a big deal. Rick Snyderman took a risk when he offered me his street-level gallery. It’s a big space: 13 foot ceiling