#Chinati Foundation

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Donald Judd, 100 untitled works in mill aluminum, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, 1982-86.

#art #art installation #Donald Judd #100 untitled works in mill aluminum #Chinati Foundation #Marfa #Texas #USA #1980s

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#dan flavin #Chinati Foundation #Marfa #Texas

[escolhidos-escritos]

O Estúdio Nordeste em La Mansana de Chinati/The Block, de Donald Judd. foto de Martien Mulder.

#donald judd #judd #judd foundation #chinati #the block #room #minimalism #minimal art

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#Dan Flavin #The Chinati Foundation #fluorescent #lights #art #concept artist #minimalist

[rrresearch]

Solange Knowles

b. 4 June 1986 — Houston, Texas

Notable Works:

In Past Pupils & Smiles (2019/2022)

When I Get Home (2019)

Album

Witness (2019)

Metatronia (Metatron’s Cube) (2018)

A Seat at the Table (2016)

Album

Further Reading:

Blackplanet Dossier | Solange

Wepresent | “When I Get Home”

Harper’s Bazaar | “Solange Knowles: Reflections on Stillness, Joy, and the Year That Changed Everything”

The Face | “Grace Wales Bonner in conversation with Solange”

See Also:

Saint Heron

Rothko Chapel

Carlotta Guerrero

Chinati Foundation

Grace Wales Bonner

#solange #performance #music #film #bipoc artists #dance #architecture #photography #interdisciplinary #installation #black artists

[mybeingthere]

Monika Grzymala makes installations using masking tape. Utterly beautiful. 

"Monika Grzymala is a Polish-born artist (1970) who’s lived in Germany for many years, primarily in Hamburg and now Berlin. She makes installations that might be described as a kind of three-dimensional drawing, and her signature material is tape, tape of all colors and kinds: packing, masking, adhesive, upholstery, etc.

Grzymala studied art at several universities in Germany. During her time in school, she mostly made sculpture. When a professor suggested that her interest seemed to be in the relationship between objects, not in the objects themselves, the nature of her work changed. She stopped making sculpture and focused on drawing, exploring the basics of line and mark. 

Eventually, to borrow Paul Klee’s phrase, Grzymala’s line went out for a walk–her drawings moved off the page and into space. She started using tape to draw in–draw on–a room. Walls, floors, ceilings, and the space between them became her canvas or page.” (The Chinati Foundation).

[ryansholin]

One of the songs I’m working on is (currently) about a formational road trip I took from a small town in New Mexico, back home to New York in 2001.

A friend (with a car) and I had been somewhat irrationally working on a student film that was never completed but is directly responsible for at least two marriages, one divorce, and several children, at last count.

Our stop in Marfa, and the related drives across the West Texas desert to Big Bend — these still feel like the highlights of the trip as I look back, whether or not they make it into the final verses of the song.

Marfa seems almost “popular” now, but maybe it already was a thing among the NYC art set if we knew about it. I was more interest in picking up a kitschy “Marfa Lights” t-shirt (they’re probably a train) than seeing Contemporary Art which at that age I still generally sniffed at, despite a summer class trip to the Whitney Biennial.

But Judd’s concrete boxes left an impression, as did Dan Flavin’s fluorescent lights. I still love an unexpected juxtaposition.

#dan flavin #Marfa #marfa lights #literally Marfa lights #I probably have the old t-shirt in a box somewhere #it had red ringers and never really fit me #road trip #contemporary art #installation #Texas

[jonathanferraragallery]

JERED SPRECHER received his MFA from The University of Iowa. He has had solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York; Gallery 16, San Francisco; Stephen Zevitas Gallery, Boston; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles; and the Knoxville Museum of Art. His work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Hunter Museum, and Espai d’art Contemporani de Castelló. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Bailey Opportunity Grant, and a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. He has also received artist-in-residence awards from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, the Chinati Foundation, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He is a Professor in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee. He lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee.

#jered sprecher #oil #oil on paper #oil on canvas #contemporary art #jonathan ferrara gallery #floral art #jfg artist

[eucyon]

have you been to any museums & if so which is your favorite? do you paint?

museums are one of my favorite places to go especially when traveling. art, science, history etc… all are great. my favorites I’ve been to are probably the smithsonian museum of natural history and the chinati foundation.

as for painting, not really. i do watercolor sometimes but mostly I just sketch if anything

#ipse dixit #anon

[webionaire]

Phyllida Barlow (1944–2023)

The image and the pictorial are my enemies. They are what I always want to escape,” she told Artforum’s Sherman Sam in 2011. “I want the work to change depending on where it is viewed from so its image and pictorial identity are constantly dissolved.”

Caitlin Murray to Lead Chinati Foundation

Murray was named the next executive director of the Chinati Foundation, the Marfa, Texas

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Marfa, TX

March 2023 

EAT 🌯 | The Sentinel | Cochineal | Par Llevar | Convenience West 

NATURE 🏜️| Big Bend National Park | Chinati Hot Springs | McDonald Observatory 

ART 🎨 | Judd Foundation | Chinati Foundation | Ballroom Marfa | Prada Marfa

#travel

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#dan flavin #Chinati Foundation #Marfa #Texas

[reportwire]

Chinati Foundation Finds Its Next Director Close to Home

The Chinati Foundation, the small but influential art museum in Texas founded by the artist Donald Judd, announced on Friday that it had found its next leader. Caitlin Murray, the director of archives and programs at the separate Judd Foundation, will head the organization. When Chinati’s last director stepped down last July after nearly a decade, its trustees began an international search for a…

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Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX

2022

#travel

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BTS’s RM Has Sent K-Pop Fans Flooding to Art Museums Thanks to His Instagram

When Korean pop superstars BTS visited the White House in May to talk about the recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes, over 300,000 people watched the briefing live – compared to a more typical 16,000. The pop group, which announced in June that it is going on a temporary break, is known for having that effect – it’s become known colloquially as “the BTS bump.”

A few days earlier, the group’s leader RM used his clout to draw attention to a more niche institution – the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – and its exhibit on the Canadian-American painter Phillip Guston.

As he has for dozens of museums and galleries, the 27-year-old Korean musician posted about his visit to his 35.6 million followers on Instagram, sending his eager fanbase rushing to visit, learn more, and post on social media. That’s just what happens when one of the world’s biggest pop stars becomes passionate about a new hobby.

“As an art enthusiast and a collector who loves art, I read and study a lot hoping to grow special insights and better discerning eyes … ” RM, who began visiting museums regularly in 2018, told ARTnews via email.

“I’m not good at multitasking, but I’m a person who digs deep once I get interested. Right now, I’m into art.”

RM’s deep appreciation of art is well known in South Korea. After he lent a sculpture by artist Kwon Jin Kyu to the Seoul Museum of Art earlier this year, SeMA’s curator said the exhibition became one of its most attended. When he was photographed last summer reading a book on Korean artists that had been out-of-print for decades, it suddenly became a bestseller.

For many in South Korea’s art scene, RM’s influence cannot be overstated.

“There are a lot of art exhibitions being held these days and they can be divided into two broad categories,” Yang Jeong-mu, a Western Art History professor at Korean National University of the Arts told Korean radio station SBS Power FM in December. “The ones RM went to and the ones RM didn’t go to.”

But while BTS – and by extension, RM – has become one of the most famous acts in the world, knowledge in the United States of RM’s affinity for fine art remains mostly limited to the K-pop group’s diehard fans.

The American art world appears to be catching on quickly, though. 

In early December last year, RM went on a road trip through the US, which he documented on an Instagram account launched shortly before the trip. While RM posted photos from concerts, his favorite reading material, selfies, or daily life, his most common subject was art – and specifically the various exhibitions he attended. 

Instagram, RM said, has become “a place where I can casually share my taste and life off stage that people could relate to.” And, as RM has become more passionate about art, his “spectrum of favorite artworks or artists is getting wider,” he said. 

That means more exhibitions to visit.

On that December trip, RM posted from numerous museums and galleries including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Menil Collection and the Rothko Chapel in Houston, the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, and Skarstedt Gallery in New York City.

When Texas’ Kimbell Art Museum and Blanton Museum got wind that RM was in the state, they each publicly courted him on Twitter to come visit. A few months earlier, RM gave a speech at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when the South Korean government donated a contemporary lacquerware piece to their collection.

While RM’s visits are typically unannounced, arts institutions have noted receiving a surge in social media activity after the BTS member posts. The Chinati Foundation’s post thanking RM for visiting generated 92,000 likes – their other posts typically receive between 200 and 1,500 likes. A post from a month prior to RM’s visit featuring Korean artist Yun Hyong-Keun’s works has over 6,000 likes and is flooded with comments mentioning RM and BTS.

Meanwhile, the National Gallery of Art’s tweet resharing his visit has the most engagement of any tweet for their account at nearly 12,000 retweets and 40,000 likes. The National Gallery translated that attention into a bigger following. In the 24 hours after RM’s post – which didn’t even tag the institution – the National Gallery acquired nearly three times the number of followers it would on an average day, according to Anabeth Guthrie, the National Gallery’s chief of communications.

“We were heartened to see how many people shared that they were now inspired to visit,” Guthrie told ARTnews.

Harder to quantify is whether RM’s posts resulted in more visitors, whether from BTS fans – also known as ARMYs – or otherwise. A number of the galleries and museums said they had no way of substantiating a bump in attendance due to RM because they don’t collect that kind of granular data.

A few of the larger museums, like The Getty in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, reported not seeing any appreciable difference. And, in some cases, like RM’s visit to Skarstedt to see KAWS, the exhibit was already sold out when he attended on one of its final days.

When ARMY Stops By – #Namjooning

Common amongst ARMYs is the phenomenon dubbed “Namjooning,” after the artist’s legal name, Kim Namjun, where fans will post photos of themselves taking part in RM’s hobbies, like hiking, bike riding, caring for plants, and appreciating the sky.

Appreciating art has become a common method of #Namjooning. The Rothko Chapel told ARTnews of numerous visitors telling staff RM inspired their visit. The Broad in Los Angeles and The Menil Collection mentioned seeing visitors cluster in areas where RM posed for his Instagram posts, like outside Menil’s Cy Twombly Gallery. Similarly, at the National Gallery of Art, fans have taken to recreating RM’s photo outside the museum’s 6th Street entrance; Guthrie said that she has seen fans share photos of the musician’s favorite works.

Meanwhile, the Getty has become a popular pilgrimage site for ARMYs. Fans spoken to by ARTnews almost all mentioned seeing other ARMYs during their visit.

Virgie Felix, a 44-year-old ICU nurse from Atlanta, told ARTnews she visited The Broad and The Getty museums on a visit to Los Angeles after seeing RM post about the institutions. 

“We were able to see and experience art that we may not have thought about going to see,” she said, while discussing the effects of RM’s love of art, via Twitter. “There were so many ARMYs at both of them as well!” 

Several fans said that they were inspired to go to museums locally, while others are making plans to visit the same institutions as RM, especially those that are difficult to reach. 

Inspired by RM, Brooklyn-based UX designer Amber Muck, 30, is now planning to visit the Rothko Chapel this fall. 

“Because life is too short to not see the art that you love,” she said.

Others, like 28-year-old immigration attorney Abyan Gurase, New York, have gone not only to museums RM has frequented, like the Met, but to keep an eye on his favorite artists and view their exhibitions when they can. For example, she recently visited the Brooklyn Museum to see an exhibit on the street artist KAWS, one of RM’s favorite artists.

RM’s Growing Reputation as an Art Aficionado

As RM spends more time at US art institutions, arts professionals have begun to recognize him as someone with a complex understanding of art.

After RM’s visit to the Chinati Foundation, director Jenny Moore described the K-Pop star to ARTnews as a “noted art collector” and “particularly passionate” about Korean painter Yun Hyong-keun and American minimalist artist Donald Judd. Chinati, which was founded by Judd and contains many of his works in its permanent collection, featured both artists recently in a special exhibit.

“We spent several hours touring the permanent installations and special exhibitions and particularly appreciated [RM] sharing with us his perceptions of the work and his deep knowledge of both Judd and Yun,” Moore said. 

Will Davison, the Communication and Visitor Engagement Manager for the Rothko Chapel, provided RM with a personal tour. He came away similarly impressed.

“I was enamored with his depth of knowledge and appreciation for the artistry of Mark Rothko,” Davison told ARTnews, noting that RM has visited Rothko’s work all over the world. “It was a pleasure to be in his presence and just to get a bird’s eye view of his understanding of this work.”

Davison isn’t alone in his assessment. Guthrie, of the National Gallery, loved that the songwriter shared some of his favorite works.

“He chose some of our hidden gems—like a case of oil sketches by Georges Seurat,” she said.

When RM discusses this particular passion, he often talks about art as if it were a refuge.

“Visual art is a different field and because I can purely enjoy them without any strings attached, the feeling becomes more vivid,” he said. 

RM continued, “The visual experience feels more complete. I’m often moved by the fact that I can see and feel the real textures or physical existence of the work from the time when the artists were alive.”

But now that RM has found a new way to share his personal discovery of art, he is looking for more ways to make art accessible to newbies.

“Some day, I would like to create a public space related to art which, I think, would not be in the form of a gallery or a museum,” he said.

Source: ARTnews

#2022 #bts #rm #artnews #namjooning

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Untitled Within

The courtyard of sculptor Robert Irwin’s large-scale “untitled (dawn to dusk)” on the grounds of the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas.

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#Architecture #Black and White #Clouds #Marfa #Sculptures #Texas #Trees