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views fall 2009 02 Letter from the Director welcome Dear Friends, Board of Trustees BARBARA TOBER Chairman LEwis KRuger This month, we celebrate the first birthday of the Museum of Arts President JEROME A. CHAZEN and Design’s (MAD’s) new home at 2 Columbus Circle. Chairman Emeritus JACK ViViNETTO Treasurer In our inaugural year, we’ve welcomed nearly 400,000 visitors Stanley s. ArkiN to the new MAD. We have presented ten exhibitions, exploring AmbassAdor subjects as diverse as ceramics, radiators, fused glass, furniture as diEgO E. ArriA KAy BucksbauM sculpture, and contemporary jewelry. Second Lives, our inaugural CeciLy Carson TZiLi Charney exhibition, celebrated not just the rebirth of 2 Columbus Circle, simona Chazen Holly Hotchner Michele Cohen but the creativity of dozens of contemporary makers in our field. Nanette L. Laitman Director Dan Dailey ERiC DobkiN Our Open Studios have welcomed thirty artists, many of whom are MarciA Docter completing their residencies next month, and tens of thousands LisA OrangE ELson C. ViRgiNiA Fields of visitors who have questioned, probed, and delighted them; our Carolee FRiEdlander KRis Fuchs education center has served as a classroom for more than 10,000 Seth Glickenhaus Sandra B. Grotta children from schools all over New York City. Our theater has Chris Hacker EdwiN B. HathawAy hosted events from the Indo-American Film Festival to Mix: New LiNdA E. Johnson Performance at MAD; our new event space has welcomed Sally Ann KAplan J. Jeffrey KAuffman Hansen, the Discovery Channel, and the TED Conference. And this Jane Korman Jeanne s. Levitt summer, we inaugurated a new film series, welcoming weekend Jeffrey Manocherian AViva RobiNson moviegoers to a series of French New Wave films presented in Barbara Karp Shuster Alan siEgel collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth siEgel Klara silversteiN Most exciting to each of us at MAD is the chance to bring the ever- william s. TAubman suzanne Tick changing world of contemporary arts and design to a whole new MAdeline WeinriB audience. One recent visitor told me that for her, “we’ve merged Honorary a museum with everyday life.” That’s exactly what we meant to suzanne g. ELson Jack Lenor Larsen do at 2 Columbus Circle—I’m proud that we’ve made that happen. Nancy Marks Alfred R. Shands, III If you haven’t experienced the new MAD yet, stop by. This fall, Ex-Officio we have three exciting new exhibitions to share with you, ranging Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg Honorable ChrisTine C. Quinn from explorations of the beauty of cut paper (Slash; see page 5) Honorable Scott M. StriNger to Read My Pins, showcasing the extraordinary brooch collection of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and exploring the communicative power of jewelry (see page 6) to a stunning installation by the Japanese conceptual design firm Nendo in our MADProjects Gallery. We will also present, for the first time, the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, an international award that celebrates emerging trends in art and design from artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. We’ll throw two parties—our first Paper Ball, celebrating our paper anniversary (see page 12), and our fifteenthVisionaries! (see page 12). The Store at MAD will continue to offer you glittering reasons to come in, explore, and support the Museum through your purchases. We’ll continue to engage our visitors in the process of making through our Open Studios, welcoming thirty new artists to our education floor. And we’ll celebrate the opening of the Museum’s new restaurant this Fall. We’re looking forward to the views from the ninth floor—and the inventive food that will accompany them. Finally, I’d like to thank the thousands of people who stopped our staff members in the elevators, the galleries, the art-filled staircases, the theater, and The Store at MAD to share your thoughts. We pride ourselves on being a user-friendly museum; your comments make a real difference to us, and we’re grateful for them. cover image: Oliver Herring As always, I hope to see you in and around the Museum often this fall. Alex, 2009 (detail) digital C-prints, museum board, foamcore, polystyrene 74 x 24 x 16 in. Warm regards, Courtesy of the artist and Max protecth gallery, New york Holly Hotchner photo: Eli ping weinberg Nanette L. Laitman Director museum of arts and design contents The Museum of Arts and Design, donors; and the Museum’s Collections in addition to major financial Committee. The restoration of Robert 02 assistance from its Board of Trustees, Arneson’s Alice House Wall was made welcome receives operating funds from many possible by a generous grant from dedicated supporters. Major support The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. for the Museum’s exhibitions, outreach 04 programs, and general operations is The Charles Bronfman International provided by public funds from the Curatorship Program, focusing on a year at a glance Institute of Museum and Library contemporary global developments Services, an independent federal in art, craft, and design, has been 05 agency that grows and sustains a generously funded by The Andrea “Nation of Learners;” Manhattan and Charles Bronfman Fund. upcoming exhibitions Borough President Scott M. Stringer; the National Endowment for the Important funds for the Museum’s 08 Arts; City Council Speaker Christine operations are provided by Acorn Hill C. Quinn, Councilmembers Gale A. Foundation, Inc.; Frances Alexander curatorial perspective Brewer and Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Foundation; Almax Mannequins and the New York City Council; Mayor & Display Items; Alice Marshall Michael R. Bloomberg, Commissioner Public Relations; The American 09 Kate D. Levin, and the New York City Express Company; The Arkin Family in the studio Department of Cultural Affairs; and Foundation; Bloomberg LP; Bonhams the New York State Council on the & Butterfields; The Brown Foundation; Arts, a State Agency. Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum 10 Family Foundation; Tzili Charney; The Museum’s educational programs Carnegie Corporation of New York; program highlights are supported by the Rose M. Badgeley The Carson Family Charitable Trust; Residuary Charitable Trust; The The Chazen Foundation; Michele and 11 J.M. Kaplan Fund; The New York Martin Cohen; Columbia Business Community Trust; the New York City School; Consolidated Edison Company inside mad Department of Cultural Affairs; the of New York, Inc; Despaña Foods; New York State Council on the Arts, Discovery En Español/SGA Consulting; 12 a State Agency; Manhattan Borough Dobkin Family Foundation; Marcia President Scott M. Stringer; and and Alan Docter; Lisa Orange Elson events The Seth Sprague Educational and and Harry Elson; The Estee Lauder Charitable Foundation. The ArtsLife Companies Inc.; Carolee Friedlander; program is generously supported by Kris Fuchs; The Glickenhaus Foundation; 13 Bonnie E. Eletz, Cathy A. Seligman Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Sandra and and The William & Mildred Lasdon Louis Grotta; Chris Hacker; The Irving travel Foundation. Ongoing support is Harris Foundation; Edwin B. Hathaway; provided by the William Randolph Tim Hotchner; The International Bar 14 Hearst Endowment Fund for Education Association; Lois U. and Dirk Jecklin; and Outreach. The Museum’s Thursday The Jewish National Fund; JPMorgan members evening Pay-What-You-Wish program Chase; Linda E. Johnson; The J.M. is underwritten by Newman’s Own Kaplan Fund; F.M. Kirby Foundation, 15 Foundation. Inc.; Fred Kleisner; The Jane and Leonard Korman Family Foundation; partners/supporters Current and upcoming exhibitions Laura and Lewis Kruger;The William are supported by Abraaj Capital; and Mildred Lasdon Foundation; The William Anderson; American Express; Levitt Foundation; Liz Claiborne, 20 The Angelica Berrie Foundation; Art Inc.; Louis Armstrong Education the store at mad Alliance for Contemporary Glass; Foundation; Jeffrey Manocherian; The Artists’ Legacy Foundation; Benjamin Ambrose Monell Foundation; Maharam Moore & Co.; Bullseye Glass Company; Textiles; Material ConneXion; Merrill David Charak II; The Craft Research Lynch & Co., Inc.; Nelson Air Device Fund, a Project of the Center for Craft, Corp.; Newman’s Own; New York Creativity and Design at the University City Department of Cultural Affairs; of North Carolina; Farrow & Ball; Susan Northwestern University, Kellogg Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg; The School of Management; Northern Greenwall Foundation; The Murray and Trust; Oldcastle Glass; The Peco Helen Gruber Fund; The Henry Luce Foundation; Pratt Institute; Maya Foundation, Inc.; The Karma Foundation; Romanoff; Risk Metrics Group; The Jack Kate’s Paperie; John Kelly; Stella A. and Aviva Robinson Family Support McTernan; Pauline and Lawrence J. Foundation; Barbara Karp Shuster; Mohr; The Mondriaan Foundation, Alan Siegel; The Ruth and Jerome Siegel Amsterdam; the National Endowment Foundation; Klara and Larry Silverstein; for the Arts; Netherlands Ministry of Steelcase, Inc.; SUITE NY; Sugar Foods Foreign Affairs and Consulate General Corporation; TED Conference LLC; of the Netherlands in New York; Suzanne Tick, Inc.; Swarovski, Inc.; Consulate General of Israel, New York; The Taubman Company; Tiffany & Co.; St. John Knits; Swarovski, Inc; Windgate Barbara and Donald Tober Foundation; Charitable Foundation; and the Madeline Weinrib; and many other Museum’s leadership support groups. generous private and anonymous donors. Acquisitions to the Museum’s permanent collection are made possible, in part, through the generosity of the Board MADviews is made possible through the of Trustees; private and anonymous generosity of the Liman Foundation. The Museum of Arts and design is made possible by a host of generous private and public donors, including Viola Frey Weeping Woman, 1990–1991 Ceramic, glaze 76 x 58 x 80 in. Collection of Norton Museum of Art, west palm Beach, Florida, purchase, the Rose L. Kraft Fund, 92.2 photo: © Artists’ Legacy Foundation/ Licensed by VAgA, New york, Ny 01 04 A YeAr At A GlAnce MAD’s First Anniversary 02 at 2 Columbus Circle Pho T Dear Museum Members, o: ALAN KLEIN This September we will celebrate our one year anniversary in our spectacular new home at 2 Columbus Circle.