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...

The  Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego   is looking a little disheveled these days. There's a trash bag in the middle of one of the galleries A piece of cardboard is leaning against the wall Seriously, an ashtray? A cardboard box on a pedestal... The box is actually by Robert Rauschenberg and it's part of MCASD's Lifelike  exhibition in La Jolla.  The group exhibition explores work  from the 1960s to present day  based on everyday objects and occurrences. It's a really good one. The hallway installation above is by Peter Fischli & David Weiss  The trash bag marble sculpture is by Jud Nelson. The cardboard laying against the wall is a Ugo Rondinone still life in bronze. The ashtray is by Ruben Nusz. Vija Celmins, 1967 Evan Penny, 2005 Jonathan Seliger, Giant Milk Carton Sell By date of June, 13 2010 = Obviously spoiled. Edward Kienholz, 1971 That...