Esoteric Survey

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 Hammer museum Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school located in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It opened in 1933 and was owned by the faculty. Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Buckminister Fuller, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, and Xanti Schawinsky is just a partial list of the faculty. Ruth Asawa, Kenneth Noland, John Chamberlain, Cy Twombly, and Robert Rauschenberg were all associated with the school. BMC closed in 1957. Source:  Western Regional Archives, States Archives of North Carolina Josef Albers painting and a desk he designed for the college Anni Albers Josef Albers Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller Source: State Archives of North Carolina Emerson Woelffer Ilya Bolotowsky Robert Rauschenberg Ingeborg Svarc Lauterstein and  Rauschenberg at BMC. I bet at lot of good times were had there.  Source:  S...

In 1971, Donald Judd rented a house in Marfa. Over the next two decades he would become a major force in this small Texas town.  Judd-related buildings dominate the center of town and land holdings by the Judd and Chinati foundations are in the hundred of thousand of acres. It's incredible how the vision of Judd and the investment by a few non-profit foundations have created a thriving economy based on art. It's difficult to i magine what Marfa would be like without Judd. Judd bought the Marfa bank in 1989. It became his Architecture Studio. Architecture Studio Building, Ground Floor Source: Donald Judd A Good Chaire is a Good Chair , Ikon Gallery Artillery Shed, Chinati Foundation In 1979, with assistance from the Dia Art Foundation , Judd bought 3 40 arc res of land , which included an abandoned Army base. The buildings ha ve been transformed into art spaces which now house permanent installations by Judd  and one of his best friends...

Isamu Noguchi, Coronos , Bronze OMG! John Mclaughlin with Claes Oldenburg pool balls in the foreground   Donald Judd "I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does." — Donald Judd   Donald Judd   Donald Judd Lorser Feitelson  This is from 1936. Amazing. John Mason Edward Kienholz “We didn’t talk the art out. We talked about where we were going to get six dollars so we could buy gas  for a car  to go to the Valley and get drunk… I don’t know that I’ve ever talked to Bob Irwin about art in my life.” —Ed Kienholz Richard Diebenkorn That electrical outlet pisses me off. Yayoi Kusama Way before the LV handbags John Chamberlain "Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction." — John Chamberlain Willem de Kooning vs.  Franz Kline   That De Kooning once...