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ART + SCI ENCE BY RYAN STEADMAN

GENERALLY, TOM SHANNON sees “invention” and “art” as entirely separate. Unlike many contemporary artists, who look skeptically at the divide between utility and fine art, Shannon embraces their opposition. “To the degree that something is functional, it is less ‘art.’ Because art is a mysterious activity,” he says. “I really distinguish between the two activities. But I can’t help myself as far as inventing, because I want to improve things.”

TOM SHANNON Pi Phi Parallel (2012) ARTDESK 01 TOM SHANNON Parallel Universe (2012) (2009)

SHANNON’S CAREER WAS launched at a young age, telephone, despite being ground-breaking for the after a sculpture he made at nineteen was included 1970s, was never fabricated on any scale. Nor was in the 1968 show The Machine as Seen at the End of Air Genie: Video Airship, a flying, interactive robot that the Mechanical Age, at the Museum of Modern Art would have functioned as teacher, documentarian, in New York. He received his MFA from the Art boom box, and DJ, among other roles. Institute of Chicago, where he studied under Fortunately, Shannon has had more luck creating luminaries like Stan Brakhage, before moving his engaging—and often interactive—artworks. to New York in 1971. Since then, his sculptures, For his most recent commission, Finity, he will paintings, and works on paper have been seen in construct spinning sculptures of the five “ancient esteemed exhibitions and institutions such as the polyhedrons,” also sometimes known as Platonic Venice Biennale, the Centre Pompidou, and the solids after the philosopher who was believed to Whitney Museum. have first identified them. The artwork, which will As part of his sprawling art practice, Shannon stand around twenty-five feet high at the front of tends to ideate about technology and feats of Kirkpatrick Center’s Science Museum Oklahoma, engineering. “Sometimes an idea occurs to me takes its name from the fact that these shapes are as a result of making art,” he says. Those ideas the only “regular” convex polyhedrons possible sometimes turn into processes and machines that in three-dimensional space, “regular” means each are later patented, as was the case with his tactile facet is of identical size and shape. They embody telephone and an early model of cathode-ray-tube finiteness, or a known and absolute restriction to color projector. what is possible. This constitutes fundamental It’s a process that also led to an idea for a knowledge about our universe. synchronous world clock. After he became intrigued In antiquity, these five shapes—the tetrahedron, with the ratio of the earth to the sun (a recurring cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron— theme in his work), Shannon realized he was on were paired with the five elements: fire, earth, air, his way to making a world clock, and “it went from water, and the cosmos. The elements were key to being an artwork to a design project,” he says. the development of geometry and mathematics, Shannon and collaborator Buckminster Fuller Shannon says, which are the disciplines that created a limited edition of twenty World Clocks in underlie all Western science. “It seemed like a very 1983, and the clock was patented in 1984. good symbol for the front of a science museum,” he But alas, many of Shannon’s inventions have adds. This commission, funded by the Kirkpatrick remained in the realm of ideation. His tactile Family Fund, should be completed shortly after the

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“ To the degree that something is

functional, it is less ‘art.’ Because

art is a mysterious activity.”

—TOM SHANNON

premiere of Shannon’s show, The Art of Tom Shannon: poetics of cosmology.” Other pieces include two Universe in the Mind | Mind in the Universe, which opens artworks from Shannon’s Rays series, which looks November 16, 2019, at the museum. at the proportions of the sun and earth and the Despite its size, the engineering for Finity won’t earth and moon, and Compass Array, a sculpture of be difficult, according to Shannon. The sculptures magnetic spheres that independently orient to the will be arranged vertically, sprouting from a earth and will fill the museum’s lobby. One wall subterranean cement block. They’ll also be tactile will be entirely dedicated to Shannon’s previous and interactive, allowing museum visitors to paintings, drawings, and sketches, some “fully touch and spin the polyhedrons, and see how they actualized, some not,” as Henderson puts it. But affect the other spheres. “I love when art has that with an intuitive artist and engineer like Shannon, engaging component, where you can participate,” sometimes the impossible is even more interesting says Julie Maguire, private curator to Christian than the fully realized. Keesee, president of the Kirkpatrick Family Fund. “With so much art, you aren’t allowed to touch it. You’re supposed to stand away from it.” Keesee and Maguire had followed Shannon’s work after stumbling upon an image of a Shannon sculpture eight years ago at the Château la Coste in Provence, France. Luckily, they were able to find this ideal commission for him. “His artwork fits perfectly into the mission of the smArt Space gallery,” says museum planning and design director Scott Henderson. The gallery focuses on “how the intrinsic relationship between art and science can expand upon what we know and can act as a medium for exploring and forming new information and ideas.” Art and invention will be thoroughly intertwined at Shannon’s exhibition, which will feature design TOM SHANNON works such as a revised iteration of his World Clock, Pi Phi Parallel (2012) as well as four or five new artworks exploring “the

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NecessitiesWHAT TO SEE, WHAT TO READ, AND WHAT’S HAPPENI NG WHERE

Brand New State Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center will open its new doors on March 13, 2020. The inaugural exhibition, Bright Golden Haze, explores perspectives on light and place. Works by artists Robert Montgomery, Teresita Fernandez, and Robert Irwin will take visitors on a tour of how light creates both a geographic and a conceptual sense of place. —MICKIE SMITH

ROBERT MONTGOMERY For more information about Oklahoma Contemporary Arts The Stars Pulled Down for Real (2015) Center in Oklahoma City oklahomacontemporary.org Photograph by Max Cleary

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in the building, visitors can discover other displacement in a whirl of abstraction. Joined installations by Philipsz, including some of her by her smaller works on paper, this mid-career earliest work, all transforming the galleries and survey shows how the Ethiopian-born American architecture through the resonance of sound. artist engages with equal energy in drawing, Through February 2, 2020. pulitzerarts.org painting, and printmaking. The art dates from the mid-1990s to the present, with the most SPEECHLESS: different by design recent meditating on news photographs of fires Dallas Museum of Art / Dallas, Texas and protests, all interpreted through Mehretu’s distinct abstraction. EXHIBITION Through May 17, 2020. lacma.org Visitors to this exhibition journey through a series of environments created by artists and designers who consulted with academic and medical specialists to engage the senses in a variety of experiences. A spherical sculpture by Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki responds to the presence of a listener’s ear with whispers recorded around the world; American sculptor Misha Kahn’s coral garden offers inflatable surfaces on which to sit and interact. American brothers and GREAT FORCE black male identity, as well as a new flag-based collaborators Steven and William Ladd worked Institute for Contemporary Art VCU / installation that responds to recent deaths by with community members to wind thousands Richmond, Virginia gun violence. Thomas scrutinizes the importance of textile scrolls that line a tactile room, and of art in raising collective consciousness of how Nigerian-American designer Ini Archibong’s EXHIBITION corporations commodify culture and how racial custom synthesizer is joined by elements like an Virginia Commonwealth University opened stereotypes are reinforced. Through January 12, obelisk and pool. Each encourages empathetic the Institute for Contemporary Art in 2018 2020. portlandartmuseum.org connection and rethinking communication with a focus on public engagement and social beyond speech. Through March 22, 2020. change through art. This group show of more ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS: Hi, how dma.org OFF THE WALL: American Art to Wear than twenty artists examines race in the are you, Gonzo? Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia, United States today and how art is crucial in Aspen Art Museum / Aspen, Colorado RENEWING THE AMERICAN SPIRIT: Pennsylvania the visibility of bias and inequality. Xaviera The Art of the Great Depression Simmons has an installation of furniture, EXHIBITION Oklahoma City Museum of Art / Oklahoma EXHIBITION images, and sculptural works that probe Abraham Cruzvillegas makes art that is meant City, Oklahoma In the 1960s, an artistic movement emerged American policy and oppression, while the to be touched. Inspired by the vernacular in which artists made work that was meant to luminous façade of the museum features a architecture of his childhood neighborhood EXHIBITION be worn. The rise of wearable art across three drawing by Tomashi Jackson that considers labor in Mexico City, he adheres to a concept of The Oklahoma City Museum of Art recently decades in the United States is investigated and erasure. To foster community dialogue, autoconstrucción, or “self-construction.” acquired a monumental mural by artist Gardner in this exhibition of more than 100 pieces, author Claudia Rankine is hosting the Racial This exhibition was co-organized by the Hale: The Triumph of Washington, which depicts ranging from Susanna Lewis’s Moth Cape Imaginary Institute in the museum’s Learning (1979), with its enveloping wings, to Sheila Lab with free readings and discussions. Through Perez’s Combat Vest (1985), with its protective January 5, 2020. icavcu.org adornment of toy soldiers. It highlights significant moments such as a group of GENERATIONS: A History of Black artists teaching each other how to crochet at Abstract Art Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute in the 1960s and the Baltimore Museum of Art / Baltimore, HAPPENINGS influence of feminist expression in fiber and Maryland NEW AND NOW IN ART & PERFORMANCE | BY ALLISON MEIER textiles, all contributing to what’s described as the Art to Wear movement. Many of the vibrant EXHIBITION pieces are from a promised gift by Julie Schafler For its stop in Baltimore, the touring show Contemporary Austin and the Aspen Art the first American president on horseback with Dale, who for more than forty years exhibited Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Museum, and both institutions sourced salvaged his soldiers, riding against a backdrop of a wearable art in her New York gallery. Collection is expanded with more than seventy and recycled material to build his sculptures, twentieth-century skyline. This mural has not Through May 17, 2020. philamuseum.org paintings. The broadened scope spotlights the each involving slight variations for the different been exhibited since 1932, and it joins paintings, contributions of black artists to abstraction museum sites. Throughout the run of the show, prints, photographs, and other works by artists PAT STEIR: Color Wheel from the 1940s to the present, foregrounding the works will be “activated” by a diverse group such as Acee Blue Eagle, Hans Hofmann, Grant Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / postwar pioneers such as Alma W. Thomas and of participants from Mexico City, including Wood, and Thomas Hart Benton in exploring Washington, D.C. Norman Lewis, plus major contemporary artists skaters rolling over ramps and choreographers the visual legacy of the Great Depression. Some like Mark Bradford, Martin Puryear, and Kevin interacting with the playful forms. Through pieces starkly portray the injustices of people EXHIBITION Beasley, to explore how this visual language can January 26, 2020. aspenartmuseum.org trying to survive a country’s decline; others rally Cascades of color on twenty-eight large-scale be a powerful personal and political statement. the national spirit against this adversity, like paintings span 400 linear feet of the Hirshhorn’s The exhibition follows a rehanging of the SUSAN PHILIPSZ: Seven Tears Hale’s patriotic mural. Through April 26, 2020. second floor in this site-specific exhibition by Baltimore Museum of Art’s galleries to celebrate Pulitzer Arts Foundation / St. Louis, Missouri okcmoa.com American artist Pat Steir, best known for her black achievement in art and precedes a 2020 Waterfall paintings, which she has created since concentration of its programming on women EXHIBITION JULIE MEHRETU the 1980s by pouring and brushing streaks of artists, all initiatives aimed at elevating artists When Scottish artist Susan Philipsz won the Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Los paint. The monumental works on view here are who have been underrepresented in museums. prestigious Turner Prize in 2010, she was the Angeles, California inspired by color wheels. They immerse viewers Through January 19, 2020. artbma.org first to receive the award for a sound installation. walking the circular gallery in an installation of Originally a sculptor, she uses sound to shape EXHIBITION shifting gradations. The gestural motifs on the HANK WILLIS THOMAS: All Things experiences that respond directly to a space. Fragments of architecture like columns and paintings, combined with this contemplative Being Equal… The Pulitzer Arts Foundation will debut a new city maps are layered with dashes of paint and experience, reflect Steir’s longtime interest Portland Art Museum / Portland, Oregon commissioned piece installed in the water court ink on Julie Mehretu’s large-scale paintings. in Zen Buddhist and Taoist thought and the of the Tadao Ando–designed museum, joining These pieces, imbued with the visual intensity expressive possibilities of abstraction. EXHIBITION its reflecting pools with a recording of Philipsz of a tornado, suggest history, landscape, and Through September 7, 2020. hirshhorn.si.edu From fiberglass arms of basketball players coated singing a seventeenth-century lament. Elsewhere in a glossy sheen of auto paint to quilts stitched from athletic jerseys and decommissioned prison uniforms, American artist Hank Willis Thomas draws on the imagery of popular culture to address race, gender, and identity. This survey of nearly 100 works includes early photographic series confronting commercial branding and

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or renovated structure on city property to be spent on art for the site. “There is a growing expectation to see works of art incorporated into the urban fabric, both public and private,” says Robbie Kienzle, liaison and program planner for the city’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. “The days of ‘Oklahoma City can’t afford pretty’ are long gone, and now residents and elected officials ask how much more art can be included in upcoming projects.” KLINT SCHOR Glacial Erratics (2019) In 2011, the arts commission These steel boulders are located at Crystal contracted local artists S-X-L Lake park in Oklahoma City. in collaboration with Butzer Architects and Urbanism to design the Skydance Bridge, which ACCORDING TO Americans for paintings or pencil sketches was recognized in 2012 by the the Arts, “public art humanizes in a portfolio but also colorful Americans for the Arts Public Art the built environment.” That murals that take up entire sides of Network as a top-fifty public art is why since Philadelphia first buildings, massive steel sculptures, project in America. Although it’s began its percent for art program even a bridge. perhaps the most recognizable public in 1959, municipalities across the In 1980, the city established offspring of 1% for Art, dozens of country have implemented city the Oklahoma City Arts others have been created, with ordinances to ensure public art is Commission, which gave the even more on the way. domain found in public spaces. municipality the ability to “The benefits of public art One Percent for Art in oklahoma city Sixty years later, Oklahoma commission art. By 2009, the [are] more than economic,” says City has its own collection, one growing demand for more public Kienzle. “The pride and social- that is growing in size and scale art led the city to pass 1% for connectedness these beautiful B y LUCAS DUNN and free to view for anyone who Art, requiring one percent of the and aspirational assets bring are is passing by. It’s not just framed construction cost for any new now seen as priceless.”

GIVING Civics CLASS

mounted, they felt compelled Philharmonic, and recently to rehabilitate historic homes to give back, giving time and established the Wiggin Family and vacant land to increase money to support numerous Concert Fund for new music. urban homeownership in three philanthropic organizations. Passionate about classical music, other neighborhoods. “The best “Our son asked us one time, Renate Wiggin is a past board way to think of our mission ‘Why do you give?’” says Charles president. is, we build neighborhoods,” Wiggin. “We said, ‘Because we “The Wiggins are such a she says. Renate Wiggin was believe in it.’ And I know it was valued and integral part of our instrumental in efforts to the right answer when he said, organization,” says Susan Webb, revitalize Oklahoma City’s ‘Okay, I get it.’” Oklahoma City Philharmonic historic Wilson Arts Integration Enthralled with the story director of marketing and public Elementary, a top-performing of Oklahoma City’s birth on relations. “All their ongoing school whose philosophy of April 22, 1889, Charles Wiggin arts-integration education has worked with historian Michael been nationally recognized. J. Hightower and Oklahoma Among their other Historical Society executive Chuck and Renate philanthropic interests, Charles director Dr. Bob Blackburn to Wiggin serves as presidential Charles and Renate Wiggin create the ’89er Trail, a series of have a deep-seated adviser on the board of

JOHN JERNIGAN JOHN twenty-eight markers that lead directors for the Rotary Club visitors on a historical tour of sense of service to the of Oklahoma City, and he is downtown Oklahoma City. The treasurer for the Oklahoma PHILANTHROPISTS AS NEWLYWEDS, Charles Wiggins established a fund at community. City Museum of Art’s board and Renate Wiggin came to the Oklahoma City Community of trustees. Renate Wiggin is a CHARLES AND Oklahoma City in 1978, when Foundation to finance the project. longtime member of both the Charles took a position managing The final two markers will be OCCF’s Margaret Annis Boys RENATE WIGGIN USE a commercial real-estate installed as current downtown support and engagement Trust and the Parks and Public development office. Renate construction clears, and a visitor’s ensure not only vibrant musical Space Initiative committee, THEIR PASSIONS FOR worked as a stockbroker. In 1981, center is planned. offerings this year, but fresh which awards grants for public they came to a crossroads, and “When anybody asks me new initiatives for many years beautification projects. HISTORY, MUSIC, AND they made their decision. “We had about the Land Run of 1889 and to come. We are deeply grateful “Although Chuck and Renate a choice. Renate quit her job, and its impact on Oklahoma City, I for the positive spirit of support Wiggin are not natives of GIVING TO SUPPORT then I quit my job, so there we direct them to Chuck. He is now they bring.” Oklahoma, they have embraced were, two people in the household the content specialist on the Renate Wiggin also co- the history and culture of OKLAHOMA CITY with no income,” he says. topic, a historian disguised as a founded Positively Paseo, a Oklahoma City with great Charles Wiggin started his businessman,” says Blackburn. nonprofit community-housing enthusiasm” says Nancy own local firm, drawing no “Chuck and Renate have a deep- development organization Anthony, OCCF president. income at first due to overhead seated sense of service to the that works to revive urban core “From the history of the Land expenses. Renate Wiggin worked community.” neighborhoods in Oklahoma Run to the celebration of great with him for ten years. They The Wiggins have been City. The organization began music, the Wiggins have helped raised their son, putting down longtime volunteers, board its work more than twenty the community learn and roots in Oklahoma City. As time members, and donors years ago in the Paseo Historic enjoy some of its unique and BY BRENDAN HOOVER went on and their successes supporting the Oklahoma City District and has since moved on interesting stories.”

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The BOOK REPORT

Rounding up the newly released and our new favorite art books | By ALANA SALISBURY | Photography by JOHN JERNIGAN

Man with a Blue Scarf: On William Morris’s Flowers Cult Artists: 50 Cutting- Cabinets of Curiosities Lee Krasner Sitting for a Portrait by Rowan Bain / $20 Edge Creatives You Need Patrick Mauriès / $35 Eleanor Nairne / $50 Lucian Freud This lush book presents more to Know For centuries humans have been Lee Krasner has been long-over- Martin Gayford / $17 than 100 of William Morris’ Ana Finel Honigman / $17 collecting shells, coins, rocks, looked as a painter. Overshad- It’s an honor to be asked to sit for illustrations. A major figure in This book is a wonderful and and various totems that we come owed by her husband, Jackson a portrait by Lucian Freud, argu- the Arts and Crafts movement in plain-spoken introduction to across in daily life. In the seven- Pollock, Krasner was a pioneer of ably one of the greatest artists the nineteenth century, Morris is major figures in modern and teenth century, collections were the abstract expressionist move- of the twentieth century. Martin best known for his intricate flower contemporary art. While the displayed in both ornate rooms ment of the 1940s. This beautiful- Gayford, author and art critic for pattern. Inspired by his garden definition of “cult artist” is up for and large suites. This book traces ly designed and richly informative the weekly news magazine The in Kent, Renaissance tapestries, debate, there is no denying that existing and storied collections book coincides with a major Spectator, chronicles the process and medieval manuscripts, his the fifty creative geniuses in Cult with detailed photos, drawings, retrospective at the Barbican Art of sitting for and with an artist for illustrations continue to influence Artists have left an indelible mark and essays. Gallery in London. a long period of time and then, of interior and textile designers. on the art world. course, the final result.

To the Max: Max Ludwig Bemelmans The World Exists to Stone 100 Sculptors of Weitzenhoffer’s Magical Quentin Blake and Laurie Be Put on a Postcard: William Hall / $50 Tomorrow Trip from Oklahoma to Britton-Newell / $30 Artists’ Postcards from Reflecting upon the most import- Kurt Beers / $60 New York and London— Ludwig Bemelmans is best known 1960 to Now ant and versatile building block After a jury of well-respected and Back as the creator and illustrator Jeremy Cooper / $30 of our modern world (literally!), art-world aficionados combed Tom Lindley / $35 of the popular children’s book Whether because of its ephem- Stone features more than 170 through entries from thousands A proud third-generation Oklaho- Madeline. Bemelmans was also eral nature, or the inexpensive buildings and monuments, from of artists responding to an open man (and Kirkpatrick Foundation a commercial illustrator and printing methods, postcards are a ancient structures to modern-day call, this book was compiled to trustee), Max Weitzenhoffer made cartoonist working steadily in the favorite medium for visual artists. icons, spanning the globe. This showcase the 100 most exciting an unconventional journey into 1940s and 1950s. This book, part This book reprints and revisits book is beautifully designed and up-and-coming sculptors from showbiz, eventually producing of a series highlighting notable postcards created by an array of thoroughly engaging for even the more than thirty countries and hits on Broadway and London’s illustrators, includes unpublished contemporary art luminaries such most novice admirer of architec- six continents. West End. This book follows Weit- sketches and photographs from as Yoko Ono, Guerilla Girls, and tural wonders. zenhoffer’s risks and rewards in the artist’s archives. David Shrigley. the worlds of theatre and art.

PHILOSOPHY

Solastalgia | (sōl a stăl’jə, nə-) n.

Distress caused by climate change that directly affects a person’s habitat. Solastalgia is exacerbated by sense of powerlessness over environmental changes, which may be brought on by natural occurrences, such as a volcanic eruption, or by man-made changes, such as deforestation. Environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht of Australia coined the term in 2005.

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Making Connections The number of visitors at an airport could make any museum curator jealous. And sometimes so can the art. Over the past couple decades, airports have increasingly added paintings, sculptures, and hanging installations to add a bit of wonder to the otherwise mundane act of catching a flight.

Jewel Changi Airport CHANGI, SINGAPORE | Frequently voted the world’s best airport, Changi recently upped the ante with a new $1.25 billion hub which has become a city attraction in itself. Designed by Safdie Architects—who’ve earned their reputation with grandiose, cutting-edge urban projects like the city’s tower-topping, boat-shaped SkyPark, seen in the film Crazy Rich Asians, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkanasas. Jewel is part mall, part entertainment center, part art installation. Its heart is a seven-story, free-standing waterfall surrounded by terraced gardens of more than 100,000 trees and shrubs. CHANGI AIRPORT GROUP AIRPORT CHANGI

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Espace Musées at Charles de Gaulle Airport Rijksmuseum Schiphol at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol PARIS, FRANCE | This walk-through gallery space opened in 2012 and has some impressive AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS | The first museum to open a branch in an airport, Holland’s popular partnerships for its twice-yearly exhibits; past collaborators include the Musée Rodin. Rijksmuseum has set up this tasteful satellite, which features ten Dutch works, most from Currently, it has paired with the Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac with paintings and the seventeenth century, including Rembrandt’s cheerful Laughing Young Man. (It was likely artifacts in a tribute to African, Oceanic, and Native American cultures. painted by a pupil but supposedly depicts the famed artist.) It is open twenty-four hours a day and free. Spend about five minutes admiring each piece, and you are an hour closer to your flight Located past security, it sits between Lounge 2 and 3.

Jaya He GVK New Museum at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport Vancouver International Airport MUMBAI, INDIA | Everywhere you look in the sprawling T2 international terminal are mind- VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA | Canada’s greatest airport is filled with breathtaking art from blowing details, color, sounds, magic—in the form of eleventh-century artifacts, Nagaland First Nations traditions of the region: giant cedar carved totems, and cobalt-blue glass poles totems, Bollywood prints, and eighteen-foot-tall dioramas pieced together by 1,200 representing rivers. Above the enormous aquarium, the Orca Chief and the Kelp Forest are nationwide artists during a six-year project. The goal, as the name “Jaya He” indicates, is etched from glass. Keep an eye out for the annual displays of local art students who’ve won delivering “Glory to Thee” for the airport’s fifty million annual visitors. Half-hour tours are scholarships from the airport’s ongoing YVR Art Foundation. available if you call ahead.

San Francisco International Airport Hamad International Airport SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA | Opened in 1980, the SFO Museum features twenty themed DOHA, QATAR | A meager desert village until the oil boom, Doha has built an airport that galleries that pepper the walkways and overlook escalators on either side of security. doubles as a museum featuring a couple dozen oversize sculptures and bronze-figure Most are rotating exhibits, such as Alejandro Durán’s Washed Up, which ponders the playgrounds that are impossible to miss. The heart of it all, set where the concourses effect of plastic on the environment (through December 5). Another choice is the Aviation meet, is the slumping Untitled (Lamp/Bear), a twenty-ton, twenty-three-foot-tall Museum & Library in the public-access area of the International Terminal, where there’s a bronze bear made by Urs Fischer. It’s sure to get a lot of attention during the 2022 1930s-style passenger lobby and dozens of exhibits. World Cup here.

Albuquerque International Sunport The TWA Hotel at John F. Kennedy Airport ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO | A car can be a canvas, according to Albuquerque’s Lowriders NEW YORK, NEW YORK | In the early 1960s, architect Eero Saarinen transformed New York’s and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. The exhibit celebrates Nuevomexicano then-named Idlewild Airport by adding the space-age, swooping design of the Trans World culture with an array of photos (with help from the New Mexico History Museum) and Airlines terminal. Now, after an eighteen-year hiatus—thankfully, no one had the heart to tear a 1964 Chevy Impala. The exhibit rotates every three months and joins the 113-piece it down—it has reopened as the TWA Hotel. You can party like it’s 1962 by having a drink in permanent art collection of Native American, Hispanic, and Southwestern works overseen the red-carpeted lounge, getting a room (a four-hour stay is $149), or peeking at old TWA by Max Baptiste, who has taken on the airport’s newly added role of art curator. uniforms assembled by the New York Historical Society.

By ROBERT REID

TOP ROW: Provided by Agence Artcurial Culture, Provided by Agence Artcurial Culture | SECOND ROW Paul Quayle / Alamy Stock Photo, Provided by Vancouver Airport Authority THIRD ROW Provided by SFO Museum, Benny Marty / Alamy Stock Photo | FOURTH ROW: Provided by Albuquerque International Sunport, TWA Hotel/David Mitchell ARTDESK 09 20 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART CENTERS

MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH DE YOUNG MUSEUM Fort Worth, Texas / 2002 (originally San Francisco, California / 2005 opened 1892) DIA:BEACON Located in San Francisco’s lush Golden MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Beacon, New York / 2003 (Dia Art Gate Park, the de Young Museum had various names and locations dating has exhibited fine arts since 1895. In ART DETROIT Foundation, 1974) Detroit, Michigan / 2006 back to the late-nineteenth century 2005, the institution reopened in a In 2003, the Dia Art Foundation opened Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is before opening in its Cultural District Herzog & de Meuron–designed facility Dia:Beacon in an abandoned box-printing located in a former auto dealership and space. Its Tadao Ando–designed building that considers art, architecture, and factory overlooking the Hudson River. The uses this 22,000-square-foot building to overlooks a vast reflecting pool; within, landscape in its structure, where shows 300,000-square-foot building has galleries experiment with a breadth of contemporary its galleries feature an impressive regularly highlight leading contemporary dedicated to the work of individual artists, creativity, from visual art and literature to permanent collection of modern and artists and the legacy of modern art. such as large-scale installations by Dan Flavin, music and performance. Its grounds include contemporary work, with exhibitions, Richard Serra, and Michael Heizer, as well the late artist Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead, films, and performances highlighting as exhibitions that reflect the foundation’s a replica of his childhood home that hosts historical figures and cutting-edge artists. mission of preserving art projects. community programming.

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Miller Institute for SCAD Museum of Art Aldrich Contemporary Art Institute of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Savannah, Georgia / 2002 Museum Boston Boston, Massachusetts / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / 2000 Part of the Savannah College of Ridgefield, Connecticut / 2004 2006 (originally opened in 1936) Art and Design, the SCAD Museum Originally opened as the Regina Founded in 1964, the Aldrich is the Founded in 1936 as a sister institution of Art engages students and the Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie only contemporary art museum in to New York’s Museum of Modern local community in acclaimed Mellon University, the Miller Institute Connecticut. Originally constructed in Art, the Institute of Contemporary contemporary art from around the for Contemporary Art re-branded in 1783 on Main Street in Ridgefield. The Art, Boston, reopened in a building world. It’s housed in a nineteenth- 2018 to broaden its focus beyond new Aldridge, a 17,000 square-foot designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro century railway depot which was traditional gallery exhibitions. Its facility designed by Charles Mark Hay, in 2006. Dramatically situated on revitalized in 2011, with a luminous innovative programming highlights opened in 2004. the Boston waterfront, the museum glass tower acting as a beacon for emerging talent on campus as features solo shows on emerging and well as national and international visitors to its galleries. established contemporary artists. contemporary artists. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Madison, Wisconsin / 2006 Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (originally opened in 1901) Charlotte, North Carolina / 2010 Reborn as the Madison Museum of With its terra-cotta exterior and four- Contemporary Art when it opened in story atrium, the Bechtler Museum of its new facility, designed by architect Modern Art, designed by architect Mario Cesar Pelli in 2006—it includes a Botta, is among the most distinctive Contemporary Art Museum St. rooftop sculpture garden as well as places in downtown Charlotte. The Louis St. Louis, Missouri / 2003 galleries for its permanent collection Bechtler’s collection concentrates Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is and rotating contemporary art on the leading modern artists of the a non-collecting institution focused on exhibitions highlighting established mid-twentieth century, with rotating new work from contemporary artists and emerging artists with an emphasis exhibitions chronicling the history and engaging with local and global issues. on Wisconsin. legacy of postwar expression. The CAM dates back to 1980 and in 2003 moved into its monumental PHOTO CREDIT PHOTO concrete and steel building designed by architect Brad Cloepfil. Station Museum of Mesa Arts Center Nerman Museum of August Wilson African American Contemporary Art Nasher Sculpture Center Mesa, Arizona / 2005 Contemporary Art Cultural Center Houston, Texas / 2001 Dallas, Texas / 2003 The sprawling Mesa Arts Center Overland Park, Kansas / 2007 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / 2009 Station Museum of Contemporary Art Nasher Sculpture Center, nestled includes four theaters and five art Visitors to the Nerman Museum Presenting both performance and visual art, is privately funded by Ann and Jim among the skyscrapers in the galleries along with studio spaces and of Contemporary Art enter the August Wilson celebrates the cultural Harithas, the latter serving as director Arts District of downtown Dallas, indoor and outdoor gathering areas. beneath thousands of LED lights contributions of black Americans locally, of the Contemporary Arts Museum is among the world’s foremost The community-oriented institution in an installation by Leo Villareal nationally, and globally. Its innovative Houston and the Corcoran Gallery of institutions dedicated to modern and was modeled after the colors and embedded in the modernist building, facility, named for the playwright who Art in Washington, D.C. The museum contemporary sculpture. Its radiant geology of the desert, and its designed by Kyu Sung Woo. The examined African American life in the specializes in challenging exhibitions Renzo Piano–designed building and landscaped pedestrian promenade— institution is part of Johnson County twentieth century, gracefully combines a that reflect the cultural diversity of garden host trailblazing exhibitions Shadow Walk—invites visitors day and Community College and brings theater, galleries, a studio, a music cafe, Houston, with recent shows tackling and a strong permanent collection. night to experience the complex. contemporary art into the everyday and other interdisciplinary event spaces. global capitalism, imperialism, and activities of the campus through its marginalization. Lois & Richard Rosenthal Nasher Museum of Art exhibitions and permanent collection. Center for Contemporary Art Durham, North Carolina/ 2005 Pulitzer Arts Foundation Cincinnati, Ohio / 2003 (originally (originally opened in 1969) New Museum St. Louis, Missouri / 2001 opened 1939) Light filters into the Nasher Museum New York, New York / 2007 of Art at Duke University through Designed by Japanese architect Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts (originally opened in 1977) the 13,000-square-foot glass-and- Tadao Ando as his first public Center was founded in 1939 as the Founded in 1977, the New Museum steel roof of its 2005 building, building in the United States, the Modern Art Society. It is one of the debuted its blocky tower on New designed by architect Rafael Viñoly Pulitzer Arts Foundation, founded first modern art institutions in the York’s Bowery in 2007, with for the institution that dates back to by philanthropists Emily Rauh country. In 2003, the CAC relocated seven stories of exhibition and 1969. Five pavilions circle a central Pulitzer and Joesph Pulitzer Jr., is to the Lois & Richard Rosenthal programming space. Committed to courtyard showcasing its exhibitions a harmonious structure featuring Center for Contemporary Art, showcasing new art and new ideas, and collections, with a concentration elements of light and water lined with designed by architect Zaha Hadid the boundary-pushing institution on elevating artists who have been concrete forms. Both contemporary to host the non-collecting center’s recently announced plans for a second historically underrepresented in and historic art are exhibited with timely exhibitions, performances, building, to be completed by Rem

mainstream institutions. CREDIT PHOTO this space. and programs. Koolhaas’s architecture firm, OMA.

TOP ROW: Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI at Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University, Photograph by David Wharton, Provided by Dia:Beacon, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Provided by Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Provided by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Photograph by Ed Lederman, Provided by Tippet Rise Art Center, Photograph by Iwan Baan BELOW, FROM LEFT: Photograph by Robert Pettus, Photograph by Chuck Choi, Provided by Mana Contemporary, Photograph by Mike Kelly, Rendering by Skyline Ink, Photograph by Dror Baldinger

10 ARTDESK FALL  20 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART CENTERS BY ALLISON MEIER

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART THE SHED New York, New York / 2015 (originally New York, New York/ 2019 opened 1930) A flexible art hub in the new Hudson When the Metropolitan Museum of Art declined Yards development in Manhattan, the artist and art patron Gertrude Vanderbilt TIPPET RISE ART CENTER Shed is an inventive building with a Fishtail, Montana / 2016 Whitney’s donation of her American art moving shell that can telescope out Colossal sculptures by artists like collection, she founded the Whitney Museum from the main structure to create Alexander Calder and Mark di Suvero dot of American Art in 1930, now the preeminent an expanded programming venue. the 12,000-acre working ranch which institution on modern and contemporary Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the Tippet Rise Art Center, founded by expression in the United States. In 2015, it the multipurpose art center embraces philanthropists and artists Cathy and reopened in a new building designed by architect a range of contemporary expression, Peter Halstead, calls home. The cinematic CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM Renzo Piano, offering panoramic vistas of New including performance, visual art, music, Montana landscape hosts classical OF AMERICAN ART York City from a series of outdoor spaces and, and interdisciplinary happenings. concerts and large-scale contemporary Bentonville, Arkansas / 2011 within, organizing exhibitions and programs on sculptures in this unparalleled Founded by Alice Walton, Crystal emerging and established American artists. outdoor space. Bridges Museum of American Art opened with an encyclopedic approach to the history of American art; in recent years it has experimented with embedding contemporary art in its nineteenth-century galleries and investigating themes like migration, superheroes in culture, and the precariousness of the natural world. Its main building has a series of “bridging” pavilions around two ponds, with surrounding forest trails guiding visitors to permanent structures by Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller.

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Pioneer Works Aspen Art Museum Center for Maine Glenstone Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Brooklyn, New York / 2012 Aspen, Colorado / 2014 (originally Contemporary Art Potomac, Maryland / 2018 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / 2020 (originally Founded by artist Dustin Yellin in a opened in 1979) Rockland, Maine / 2016 (originally (originally opened in 2006) opened 1989) three-story warehouse on the Brooklyn Founded in 1979, the Aspen Art opened in 1952) In 2018, the Glenstone Museum Founded as City Arts Center in 1989 by Christian waterfront, Pioneer Works has a Museum reopened in 2014 in a new Founded in 1952, the Center for Maine opened its major expansion Keesee and then-director of Kirkpatrick Foundation unique perspective on contemporary building designed by architect Shigeru Contemporary Art reopened in 2016 designed by architect Thomas Phifer Marilyn Myers, the institution provides quality, creativity that traverses art and Ban with an elegant woven wood in a new light-filled space designed to spotlight a major collection of affordable, arts programming and education. In March science. It joins studios and a towering screen on its exterior and a roof-deck by architect Toshiko Mori. Initially twentieth- and twenty-first-century 2020, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center will move gallery space with a technology lab, sculpture garden with views of the established to support and exhibit art. Founded by Mitchell and Emily into its new home near downtown. With expanded virtual-environment lab, garden, surrounding mountains. The AAM is work by artists with connections to Rales in 2006, Glenstone is a unified gallery and educational opportunities, the center will and press, with science talks and dedicated to exhibitions and programs Maine, it now hosts national and setting of art, architecture, and foster a creative connectedness that only exists by compelling exhibitions on its diverse that engage leading national and international artists in noteworthy landscape, with a water court, a bringing culture, artists, and communities together. calendar of programming. international contemporary artists in shows and educational programming. patio set at a forest’s edge, and other thought-provoking dialogues with the connections with nature encouraging Museum of Contemporary Art local community. a meditative experience with art. Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio / 2012 Institute for Contemporary (originally opened in 1968) Art at Virginia Commonwealth The Museum of Contemporary Art University Cleveland reopened in a mirrored six- Richmond, Virginia / 2018 sided building designed by architect The Institute for Contemporary Art at Farshid Moussavi. The non-collecting Virginia Commonwealth University, institution is the only facility in has a striking presence, with the glass the area exclusively dedicated to panes of its intersecting volumes contemporary art and has an active glowing at night. The non-collecting education program complementing its institution stages thoughtful rotating exhibitions. exhibitions, performances, films, and other programs, inspiring the campus community and engaging with The Eli and Edythe Broad Art national and international artists. Museum East Lansing, Michigan / 2012 Architect Zaha Hadid designed the Eli The Broad Marciano Art Foundation Ruby City and Edythe Broad Art Museum which Los Angeles, California / 2015 Los Angeles, California/ 2017 San Antonio, Texas / 2019 has a façade of pleated stainless The Broad’s white lattice-like structure, Lodged in a former Masonic temple, In 2007, arts patron Linda Pace had a steel and glass. It is a modernist designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the Marciano Art Foundation was dream of a Ruby City that would be a statement on the Michigan State is a bold presence in Downtown Los established to share the contemporary home to her collection. She shared a University campus. The contemporary Angeles, with a strong vision echoed in art collection of Guess co-founders sketch with architect Sir David Adjaye, art museum supported by donors Eli Eli and Edythe Broad’s art collection. Maurice and Paul Marciano. The who realized her vision in a downtown and Edythe Broad acts as a teaching Alongside selections from this major massive gallery spaces host rotating San Antonio contemporary art center. institution and a creative center for holding of postwar art are exhibitions exhibitions that feature large-scale Built from rose-hued concrete, it hosts the region. and events highlighting influential installations as well as performances, rotating exhibitions as well as pieces from contemporary artists. screenings, and talks showcasing how Pace’s collection of more than 900 works. art impacts lives.

Mana Contemporary Pérez Art Museum Miami Institute of Contemporary Jersey City, New Jersey / 2011 Miami, Florida / 2013 (originally Art, Miami Miami, Florida/ 2017 Mana Contemporary was founded by opened in 1984) (originally opened in 1996) businessman Moishe Mana in 2011 to Established in 1984, the Pérez Art Established in 1996, ICA Miami explore the creative process through Museum Miami reopened in 2013 in reopened in its new home in Miami’s contemporary art, with campuses in a new waterfront space designed by Design District in 2017. Designed by Jersey City, Chicago, and Miami. Its Herzog and de Meuron. The museum Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos, main facility, in Jersey City, is a former has initiated large-scale public art its cubic building is pocked with tobacco warehouse that incorporates installations, including Christo and triangular perforations, with its studios, galleries, and performance Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands, experimental structure serving as spaces in one hub fostering and hosts a permanent collection a gateway to equally ambitious collaboration and experimentation. and stimulating exhibitions on major contemporary arts programming that contemporary artists. advances local, emerging, and under- recognized artists.

TOP ROW: Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI at Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University, Photograph by David Wharton, Provided by Dia:Beacon, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Provided by Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Provided by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Photograph by Ed Lederman, Provided by Tippet Rise Art Center, Photograph by Iwan Baan BELOW, FROM LEFT: Photograph by Robert Pettus, Photograph by Chuck Choi, Provided by Mana Contemporary, Photograph by Mike Kelly, Rendering by Skyline Ink, Photograph by Dror Baldinger

ARTDESK 11 ANDY WARHOL Endangered Species: Bighorn Ram (1983)

12 ARTDESK THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH; FOUNDING COLLECTION, CONTRIBUTION THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS THE FOR FOUNDATION WARHOL ANDY THE CONTRIBUTION COLLECTION, FOUNDING PITTSBURGH; MUSEUM, WARHOL ANDY THE FALL 

WARHOL-MANIA The patron saint of contemporary art, Andy Warhol (1928– 1987) remains as relevant as ever. His work is traveling the country, and his influence looms far and wide.

ARTDESK 13 GONE WEST ANDY WARHOL, one of the most iconic artists of the twentieth century, needs little introduction. His vivid screen prints of consumer products and celebrities have become so omnipresent and his style so influential that his name and philosophy might as well be shorthand for the entire Pop Art movement. What is unknown to many, however, was Warhol’s intense fascination with the American West, its history, and the larger- than-life folk heroes who pioneered and inhabited it. The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum will host Warhol and the West from January 31 through May 10, 2020. The exhibit contains the artist’s Cowboys & Indians portfolio, one of his last major projects before his death in 1987, with portraits that include iconic Western figures Geronimo, John Wayne, and Annie Oakley. According to the exhibition’s curator, Michael Grauer, visitors can explore “thirty-three artworks by Warhol . . . and more than 140 items in the exhibit,” including related personal items and pieces from Warhol’s own collection of Western art. —LUCAS DUNN

ON TOUR | Warhol Exhibitions

WARHOL AND THE WEST | Through December 31, 2019 Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia WARHOL AND THE WEST | January 31–May 10, 2020 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma THE CHELSEA GIRLS EXPLODED | Through March 22, 2020 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania WARHOL AND THE AMIGA | Ongoing The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ANDY WARHOL: REVELATION | Through February 16, 2020 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ANDY WARHOL—FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN | Through January 26, 2020 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois PHOTO REVOLUTION: ANDY WARHOL TO CINDY SHERMAN | Through February 16, 2020 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts ANDY WARHOL: SHADOWS | Through 2020 Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York POP POWER FROM WARHOL TO KOONS | Through March 8, 2020 Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia ANDY WARHOL: REVELATION | April 3–August 21, 2020 Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky POP POWER FROM WARHOL TO KOONS | June 6–September 13, 2020 Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

ANDY WARHOL Cowboys and Indians: Annie Oakley (1986) THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH; FOUNDING COLLECTION, CONTRIBUTION THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS THE FOR FOUNDATION WARHOL ANDY THE CONTRIBUTION COLLECTION, FOUNDING PITTSBURGH; MUSEUM, WARHOL ANDY THE FALL 

THE MAN FROM OKLAHOMA Harold Stevenson was on the Pop Art periphery

Oklahoman Dr. Dian Jordan is working to give the late Stevenson a push into the spotlight. Stevenson, a University of Oklahoma art- school dropout, moved to New York in 1947, the same year Andy Warhol did. Jordan says they became fast friends, and Stevenson even influenced Warhol’s work. In 1964, Warhol produced a film about Stevenson, titled Harold. Jordan says Stevenson leaned into his roots upon arriving in the city, and became known as “the man from Oklahoma,” as he broke into the Harold Stevenson in his studio in 1964. art scene. Jordan has located paintings of his that n 1963 the Guggenheim refused to show landed in the homes of McCurtain County what would later become one of its most residents and other locals for an upcoming popular acquired artworks. The New exhibition in his hometown of Idabel. In addition Adam (1962), a sprawling male nude, is to the portraits Stevenson painted of his Ipainted across nine linen panels making up a neighbors, the Smithsonian and the Oklahoma nearly forty-foot-long work. This intimate and City Museum of Art will be lending to the show controversial piece by artist Harold Stevenson Stevenson works they’ve acquired—important was considered for an early Pop Art exhibition pieces that Jordan says speak to the artist’s with the likes of Andy Warhol, Robert legacy. “[Stevenson’s] story is incredible,” Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, but was Jordan says. “I want the locals to know they have rejected for fear of being too distracting from something, that someone they know is part of the rest of the show. It’s moments like these the national treasures of art.” The exhibition is that pushed Stevenson’s work to the periphery set to open March 10, 2020, at the Museum of of Pop Art’s rise, but scholar and fellow the Red River. —KELLY ROGERS

MEMOIR FACTORY FRIENDS

suit, Campbells soup-can T-shirt, cane) and his partner, John Gilman (Interview– cover shirt).” My script for Andy and Edie Sedgwick entitled The Death of Lupe Velez (Lupe, it was ultimately called) was shot in color and has become one of Warhol’s most popular films. As for The Bed, after its premiere as a split-screen black-and-white collaboration between me and Andy at Jonas Mekas’ Film-Makers’ Cinemateque, the film went into one of Andy’s vaults and was only recently unearthed for purposes of study, scanning, and digitization by the Museum of Modern Art, the Warhol Museum in John Gilman, James Warhola, and Pittsburgh, and the Whitney. Robert Heide at the Whitney in 2018 My collection of plays, Robert Heide 25 Plays (Fast Books, 2017), contains the play version of The Bed and the film script of rom fifteen minutes to fifteen months, The Death of Lupe Velez as well as a new play, FAndy Warhol finally received his I Shop: Andy Warhol about Andy’s well- due in the museum world.The most known mania for collecting Americana. comprehensive Warhol art retrospective The preview party at the Whitney ever assembled, Andy Warhol—From A to on November 6, 2018, was also a flurry B and Back Again opened at the Whitney of press and famous Factory superstar Museum of American Art in November Warholites, including Bibbe Hansen 2019 and then moved to the San Francisco (daughter of Pop artist Al Hansen), Mary Museum of Modern Art through Woronov, Penelope Palmer (youngest of September 2019. Donna De Salvo, former the Screen Test stars and daughter of Vogue chief curator at the Whitney and curator cover model Ivy Nicholson), Interview of From A to B and Back Again, later told me, editor and Vanity Fair writer Bob Colacello, “I’m going to repeat the show in Chicago Andy’s nephew artist James Warhola, and with a team of curators, but the core will Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik, whose be the same. Our hardworking teams will book on Warhol will be published in 2020. re-create the Warhol exhibit a third time Not at the preview, of course, were at the Art Institute of Chicago [through those who have passed away, many of January 2020].” whom were my friends and are greatly For me, the latest hurrah began on missed, including Ultra Violet, Billy August 9, 2018, when the Whitney staged Name, Taylor Mead, Lou Reed, and a big birthday party for Andy’s nintieth Ingrid Superstar. The first fifty years of (his actual birthday is August 6, 1945, the the twentieth century are given to Pablo same date the US dropped the atom bomb Picasso, and the second half and possibly on Hiroshima). Claire Henry, assistant this ongoing century belong to Andy curator at the Whitney who is writing Warhol. —ROBERT HEIDE the catalogue raisonné of Andy Warhol’s films, invited me. We were working together for some time, discussing the making of Warhol’s 1965 film, The Bed, which I had written. At the party, De Salvo introduced me to a reporter from the New Yorker who was writing a piece for Talk of the Town. Suddenly, a few weeks later, I had my own fifteen minutes of fame in the legendary magazine: “Upstairs, De Salvo encountered Robert Heide and Donna de Salvo the playwright Robert Heide (seersucker

ARTDESK 15 TAP MASTER AYODELE CASEL—internationally acclaimed tap artist and educator born the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where in the Bronx and raised in Puerto Rico—is riding especially high this year. lucky students will draw from her scholarship of tap’s cultural roots while In September, New York’s Joyce Theater presented her world premiere she researches and readies her next narrative work. Dance writer EVA collaboration with four-time Grammy-winning Afro-Latin jazz artist Arturo YAA ASANTEWAA recently caught up with Casel to learn more about her O’Farrill. Casel was named the 2019–2020 Frances B. Cashin fellow at inspiration (including Gregory Hines) and the new future of tap.

EVA YAA ASANTEWAA: I've been a fan of went to Payless Shoe Source to buy knew none of them. As the list went other person. There were classes with your wonderful musicianship as a dancer, myself some tap shoes—even though on, I realized that this thing that I was flamencos, too. It was great because and also your activism and advocacy for the they don't sell tap shoes. I wanted so drawn to was really connected to the spirit and the energy of the place art. How did you get your start in tap? them to look like Ginger Rogers' shoes a rich and sophisticated history that was filled with discipline and people AYODELE CASEL: When I was nine, I in Follow the Fleet. So I got something African‑American people were at the reaching for something. moved to Puerto Rico to live with that sort of looked like it, and I had forefront of. For me as a black and I miss that so much because there my grandparents, and I didn't speak taps put on, and I entered my first Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx who, were no auditions. Nobody was saying, Spanish at all. I remember being there tap class and it was so great. About a like, idolized Ginger Rogers, I knew Oh, you can’t tap here, or There’s yoga and feeling really at a loss and isolated year into that, I had a mutual friend of and felt that there was no way that I underneath you so you can’t dance here because I couldn't express myself. Baakari Wilder who was, like, Oh, you would ever be seen as that. after a certain time. There were just no Of course, children learn language two should meet because he taps and limitations. You went there to really quickly, and I was fine a few months you clearly love tap dancing. EY: Fazil's was significant in the dance. I miss that for sure. after that. I lived there for six years, development of tap, specifically in New York Percussive artists have been and when I came back to New York, EY: Yeah! City, for many artists. marginalized from these dance I had been out of practice with my AC: Baakari said let’s meet at Fazil’s AC: Fazil's was this magical studio spaces, and it's a crime. We are literally English, so I remembered going into and then we’ll jam. I get there, and on Forty-Seventh Street and Eighth cutting off the cord to an art form as high school as a sophomore and also I hear Baakari warming up and I Avenue that you could describe as a it relates to other people seeing and feeling like, Oh, gosh, am I saying the remember looking up from tying my little dark and a little rickety. But it was experiencing our work. It’s important right word? Is this the right definition? shoe laces, like, Oh, my God, wait a incredible because it was a space where to educate people on why it’s Shortly after that, I saw Fred Astaire minute. This is not what I have been percussive dancers were able to go in important to have, for example, wood and Ginger Rogers for the very first doing at all. It changed everything for and really work out. They could go in floors—because [marley board] hurts time, and I was completely enchanted me from that moment on because I there for, I think it was $8 an hour, like, our hips, because of the integrity of the by them. I was so intrigued by how learned tap dancing is not a series of something super-economical. sound. All of these reasons should be they were moving their feet and the steps. Tap dancing is expression, it's You'd wait for your turn to get into heard and it’s important. sound. I tried to teach myself how to communication, and it comes from that room, and people would come do it by watching them, to varying this legacy of incredible dancers. I out of there sweating, and then you EY: Tell us about teachers who were degrees of success. Then as an acting remember him saying, Do you know would just go in and do your own meaningful to you and perhaps mentors major in NYU, I had the opportunity Gregory Hines? Do you know the Nicholas workout. And everywhere in those whose sense of not just technique, not just to take my very first tap class as a Brothers? Do you know Savion Glover? Do three or four floors were soloists and the dance, but how to build a career, how to movement course. I was so excited! I you know Jimmy Slyde? and of course I people gathering to work with one sustain a career, may have influenced you.

16 ARTDESK FALL  PATRICK RANDAK PATRICK

AC: Gregory Hines became one of my enter Bring in Da Noise, it's enchanting and magical. And time, it’s a real blessing for us to be dear mentors. Whenever he’d come Bring in Da Funk because it’s also a highly sophisticated able to enjoy these moments. I used to to New York, he’d call me and we’d go at the time there weren’t form requiring a lot of feel guilty because I felt like I’ve had dance. I think of him every day. I am many people who could commitment, a lot of a great career and it’s been fun. I used so grateful to have had him around really do that work. Nobody discipline, and to do to feel bad thinking that we don't have because he, to me, was the epitome of was really understanding it well, it requires a any footage of Louise Madison, that generosity and love. For me specifi‑ improvisation and musicality, lot of talent. There's we only have one clip of Lois Bright— cally, championing our development and the technique of the work this energy that has who was brilliant—that we have one and our growth even though at the that Savion [Glover] was doing. transferred from King small clip of Juanita Pitts, who was time, I mean, I had been dancing for, And so Ted was tasked with train‑ Rastus Brown to John equally talented, and you could see like, maybe three or four years, but I ing young promising men. He saw Bubbles to Bill Robinson to that in thirty seconds. I can't change could just see and feel his support and me hanging around that studio on Baby Laurence. There’s no way that, but what I can do is bring them his love. I am so thankful to him! He Lafayette across from the Public anybody can become a truly with me everywhere I go. That's why I was such a giant of a celebrity who, as Theater, and I showed up enough excellent tap dancer without always speak their names. an artist, really took the time to invest times that he was, like, Okay, you delving into its connection to jazz in young people. It was a really forma‑ can come in, and he allowed me to be music. EY: Lastly, tell me about your fellowship at tive experience and not only did he do a part of it. Harvard University. it for us personally, but he did it for the Ted held us to a standard. We would EY: Absolutely. What are you looking at and AC: I have been named a Radcliffe entire art form. I think a large part of work on technique. We worked getting excited about in the tap field today? fellow for the 2019‑2020 academic who I am as an artist is because of him, on combinations. We worked on What's new and exciting and interesting? season. This is the first time for me, and I would say his influence on me is improvisation, performance, history. AC: Finally, women are being as an artist, to be able to focus for ten more about how he was as a person. We watched footage. He gave us so presented consistently in these months time. To be paid to work on much guidance, and we were sweaty institutions. It can't be overstated. your work is a special luxury that EY: Plus he was an all‑around performer. and tired and we loved it, you know. When I think about the Jeni Le Gons, I've never been afforded. I’m very AC: He was masterful. His light was the Lois Brights, the Louise Madisons, much looking forward to it. I plan on very bright. Ted Levy was another EY: Is there something about tap that you the Juanita Pitts, all of those women using every resource I possibly can at one of my mentors. In the 1990s, he wish more people were aware of or could who didn't get the same opportunity Harvard while I'm there and delving was running what we called Funk appreciate more? that we have gotten because of racial into writing another theatrical work. U—Funk University. It was a training AC: It's serious business, it's fun, and discrimination, because of gender I'm probably the first tap dancer to be ground for young men of color to it's entertaining. It's exciting, and inequality, because of politics at the given that honor, and I'm so thrilled.

ARTDESK 17 It’s easy to get lost in the marble halls and presidential portraits that have defined the architectural and artistic aesthetic of the nation’s

capital. But dig a little deeper, and it becomes clear that a steady spring of contemporary perspectives flows throughout the District.

CULTURAL CAPITAL WASHINGTON, D.C.

Dan Graham’s For Gordon Bunshaft(2007), a reference to the Hirshhorn’s architect, anchors the museum’s Sculpture Garden with a triangular structure of wood, mirror, steel, and stone.

Alicja Kwade’s WeltenLinie (2018) is one of two perception-shifting, large-scale installations on view in Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions, which runs through February 2020 at the Hirshhorn.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 7TH STREET SW AND INDEPENDENCE AVE SW

DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT Gordon almost immediately was art that both virtual and terrestrial realms. Bunshaft and opened in 1974, the evokes a heightened awareness These artists seem to be looking for Hirshhorn Museum’s drum-shaped of bodily sensation through a a way to reintegrate body and mind home is situated perfectly between poetic conflation of the natural without yearning for the past but the US Capitol and the Washington and the man-made,” says assistant rather by embracing the palimpsest Monument. curator Betsy Johnson of how the of the present moment.” Also part of the Hirshhorn’s exhibition took shape. “On some Artist and architect Hiroshi ambitious fall lineup is Feel the Sun level, many of the artists on view Sugimoto has been tapped to in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions. The in Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent lead the upcoming renovation of thoughtful debut of more than two Acquisitions seem to be exploring the museum’s Sculpture Garden. dozen works from the Hirshhorn where and how the romantic Spanning works from August collection aims to shine a light on sublime still exists today. We Rodin to Yayoi Kusama, the the interconnectedness between regularly experience a separation of garden is one of D.C.’s tucked- Words and photographs by the world and ourselves through body and mind today that is the by- away gems. It’s small, but it begs artists’ global perspectives. “One product of the frenetic pace of life the visitor to put down a picnic CAROLINE WERTZ such thread that became visible and our simultaneous existence in blanket and stay awhile.

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The Phillips Collection 1600 21ST STREET NW

WELL WORTH THE trip away from the Mall is the Phillips Collection, in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. Boasting the title America’s First Museum of Modern Art, the Phillips comprises a maze of intimate galleries in the 1897 home of founder Duncan Phillips and two modern additions to the complex. The meditative Wax Room, by Wolfgang Laib is a small space lined with 440 pounds of golden-hued beeswax and lit by a single uncovered bulb, is the Phillips’ first permanently installed artwork since the Rothko Room in 1960.

The abstract artworks by Per Kirkeby, Helen Frankenthaler, and Wassily Kandinsky on view in the stately Music Room at the Phillips.

D.C. Alley Museum N STREET NW AND 9TH STREET NW

HIDDEN WITHIN A city block in the southwest corner of the Shaw neighborhood, Blagden Alley is an H-shaped network of historic alleyways where brick walls and metal doors have become the canvases for local artists. Co-founded by Lisa Marie Thalhammer and Bill Warrell, the D.C. Alley Museum is funded by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities grant program.

The D.C. Alley Museum is comparatively new to the District’s arts scene, established in 2015, but it pays homage to a cultural movement in the area that took root much earlier. Pictured here is Let.Go (2017) by Rose Jaffe.

National Museum of Women in the Arts 1250 NEW YORK AVENUE NW

THE NEARBY NATIONAL Museum of Women in the Arts offers a femme-focused retreat at the center of a city famous for its monumental tributes to men. Through collections that showcase shared connections and experiences, NMWA aims to celebrate women artists—both historical and contemporary—and open up a dialogue on the gender disparities that have long plagued the art world.

Among the highlights at the NMWA: Amy Sherald, It Made Sense…Mostly In Her Mind (2011)

National Gallery of Art, East Building PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NW AND 4TH STREET NW

A QUICK WALK from the Hirshhorn across the Mall is the I. M. Pei–designed east wing of the National Gallery, home to an expansive collection of the museum’s modern and contemporary artworks. Visitors to the East Building’s atrium are welcomed by Alexander Calder’s hulking steel- and-aluminum mobile, continually changing shape overhead on the whims of air currents.

Don’t miss the towering Hahn/Cock (2013) by Katharina Fritsch on the roof terrace.

ARTDESK 19 ArtSocietySEEN + SCENE

Leo Manzari and A. J. Jagannath

Jonathan Batista and DaYoung Jung

GREEN BOX ARTS FESTIVAL 2019 Thinking Green As part of the 2019 Green Box Arts Festival guests were treated to multiple performances and workshops at several venues throughout Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. This year, artist Janet Echelman unveiled 1.8 Green Mountain Falls, a 150-foot-long floating form made of fishing nets. Patron party participants enjoyed a special performance of Dynamic Duets at Bear Crossing Studio, an outdoor stage surrounded by giant aspen trees. Jaclyn Walsh and Brandon Koepsell Green Mountain Falls, Colorado

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ART OF BRUNCH 2019 Over Easy In June, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center held its third annual Art of Brunch at Campbell Art Park in Oklahoma City. Surrounded by art installations and live music, guests enjoyed excellent fare and libations from some of Oklahoma City’s best brunch spots, including Stella Modern Italian Cuisine, the Pritchard, Hatch Early Mood Food, and the Jones Assembly. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina

Party-goers at the annual patron party at Green Box Arts Festival enjoyed performances from featured festival dancers. This year marked the eleventh year of installation art and performance in the Rocky Mountains.

LEFT: Amy Miller, Yasmin Ozumerzifon, Leal Zielińska, BELL JACLYN Janet Johnson, Larry Keigwin, and Nigel Campbell. Shawn Meyers and Becky Schroeder; Erin Hannan, R. Thayer Tutt Jr., Christian Keesee, Melani Tutt, Jeff Wooddell, and Laura Hines.

FROM TOP: The Art of Brunch at Campbell Art Park is a fundraiser to ensure that Oklahoma Contemporary remains free and open to the public. Sue Ann Arnall, Steve Agee, and Kendra Horn; Maghan Potter and Leah Hicks; April Haffner, Jeri Brooks and Heather Powell; Eli and Leslie Hellman; Eddie Walker, Lizette and Drew Williamson; all enjoyed live art-making with Short Order Poems and fashion illustrations from Leanne Regan Fitzpatrick on a

TOM KIMMELL PHOTOGRAPHY KIMMELL TOM warm June morning.

ARTDESK 21 FROM TOP: Rebecca Taylor and Louisa McCune during the ArtDesk Conversation; attendees enjoyed box lunch and a beautiful September day in downtown Oklahoma City; Meredith Downing, Cayla Lewis, Lauren Dow, and Jennifer Scanlan. Lisa Pitsiri, Amanda Bleakley, Michael Morgan, Alyce and Ron Page (seated); William Bird- Melton and Gina Foxhoven. Jerod Shadid, Robbie Kienzle, Ariana Hall, and Randy Marks. The Musical Swings were a hit with the young and the young at heart.

ARTDESK CONVERSATION Swing High The Musical Swings, an interactive public art installation created by the Montreal- based art collective Daily tous les jours, was on display in downtown Oklahoma City from September 20 through October 13, 2019. The swings were installed in Bicentennial Park as a part of the fiftieth anniversary of theOklahoma City Community Foundation, founded by John Kirkpatrick and now led by Nancy Anthony. ArtDesk’s editor in chief Louisa McCune hosted an ArtDesk Conversation with Rebecca Taylor, who is Daily tous les jours’ product and environment designer, about the piece, which allows visitors to work independently or together

to create music. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma WILLIAMS SHEVAUN FOR COALE CHANDLER

ABOVE LEFT: Edwina Sandys, Larry Keigwin, Tiffany Sweet, Jeremiah Davis, Jon Sweet, and Jeanette Elliott The National Council Meeting ABOVE RIGHT: Guests also included writer John Gilman, executive director Eddie Walker, Robb Report editor Jim Cholakis, poet Emily Raabe, filmmaker Donors and supporters from Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s National Council celebrated in Paul Devlin, Kirkpatrick Foundation executive director Louisa McCune, US New York for the second year, this time at New York's exclusive Soho House. The gathering coincided Weekly's Brian Kennedy, Oklahoma Contemporary board secretary Kim Bruno, with a national press breakfast announcing the grand opening of Oklahoma Contemporary’s new and founder Christian Keesee. Among those not pictured, actor Matt Dillon, building in March 2020. New York, New York musician Lee Ranaldo, writer Robert Heide, and attorney Ryan E. Long.

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DENISE DUONG is a Vietnamese American By the Numbers artist and muralist from Oklahoma City. Her After six years in print and eighteen issues in the archive, ArtDesk has narrative works on canvas are created with acrylic paint, paper, watercolor, and ink. The explored contemporary arts, performance, and thought from a variety of allegory in her works are narrated through the characters. When Duong is not in her Oklahoma perspectives, from local to global. City studio painting, you can find her somewhere in the world drawing or water coloring, painting on walls indoor and out. 244 ARTISTS 63 WRITERS 43 ARCHITECTS 206 PHOTOGRAPHERS 551 EXHIBITIONS 2 PHILOSOPHERS 56 DANCERS 12 ANIMALS 18 ART DESKS 279 HAPPENINGS 21 NOTABLE QUOTES Dogs EVA YAA ASANTEWAA is the curatorial director Ed Ruscha 16 COCKTAILS 16 CITY GUIDES Cats for Gibney Dance, a performance space and a Claes Oldenburg Old Fashioned Kansas City Elephants center for activism. Yaa Asantewaa is also a Jenny Holzer Pimm’s Cup Austin Bees writer and community educator. Since 1976, she Joe Andoe Scotch and Soda Bentonville Tigers has written about dance for publications such as Michael Govan Cosmopolitan Telluride Chickens Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, Gay City News, Marc Maron Cider Mule Jackson Hole Cows Time Out New York, and the Dance Enthusiast. Rand Elliott Moscow Mule Houston Donkeys She launched her widely read blog on the arts, Flavin Judd Manhattan Marfa Sheep InfiniteBody, in 2007. Yoko Ono Arnold Palmer Portland, OR Falcons Russell Harper Paloma Guadalajara Deer Abbi Jacobson White Russian Des Moines Fish TWYLA THARP founded her dance company, Jane Chu Milk Punch New Orleans 62 ARTSOCIETY EVENTS Twyla Tharp Dance, in 1965. By combining different Wayne Coyne Bee’s Knees Oklahoma City 134 BOOKS REVIEWED forms of movement—such as jazz, ballet, boxing, and Jim Henson French 75 New York 8 PAPER STOCKS inventions of her own making—Tharp’s work expands Matt Dillon Greyhound Tulsa 10 TYPEFACES the boundaries of ballet and modern dance. She Mat Hoffman Bloody Bull Aspen 50 STATES ON THE has choreographed more than 160 works. She has Twyla Tharp The Pink Lady Washington D.C. MAILING LIST received one Tony Award, two Emmy Awards, nineteen honorary doctorates, the Vietnam Veterans of America President’s Award, the 2004 National Medal of the Arts, the 2008 Jerome Robbins Prize, and a 2008 Kennedy Center Honor.

In June 2019, ArtDesk conducted a reader-response survey of eleven questions to more than 35,000 recipients. This list comprised subscribers to The Oklahoman and Oklahoma Contemporary patrons who receive ArtDesk. Here, we’re sharing with our readers some of the results. A few complained that the magazine size made it hard to hold, read, and keep, and it had to be folded to fit in the newspaper or mailbox. As one respondent put it: “Sure, it allows larger representations of the art, but it’s ungainly to hold and handle.” The second-most-common complaint is a misunderstanding that they are being charged for it. In fact, ArtDesk is a free publication. Publisher...... Christian Keesee Editor in Chief...... Louisa McCune Dance Editor...... Larry Keigwin WHAT ARE SOME WORDS THAT YOU WOULD USE TO DESCRIBE ARTDESK MAGAZINE? ManagIng Editor...... Alana Salisbury Art Director...... Steven Walker BIG CREATIVE INSPIRING Research Editor...... Mickie Smith BEAUTIFUL EDUCATIONAL INTERESTING DESI GN, EDI TORI A L , COLORFUL INFORMATIVE VISUALLY APPEALING AND CI RCULATI ON ASSI STANCE CONTEMPORARY INNOVATIVE WELL-DONE Christopher Lee, Kathy McCord, Jim Cholakis, Jerry Wagner, Kelly Rogers, and Meaghan Hunt

ARTDESK TYPOGRAPHY Austin | Novel Pro | UNIT OT

READER RESPONSE KIRKPATRICK FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHRISTIAN KEESEE, Chairman “Opens readers up to other styles, events, and “I sit on the floor with my coffee and slowly subjects they might not encounter on a regular basis.” read and turn the pages—making notes on ROBERT CLEMENTS, ELIZABETH FARABEE, my phone about a show that might be in my DAVID GRIFFIN, REBECCA McCUBBIN, “I can read about people, places, and ideas that travel schedule.” MARK ROBERTSON, GEORGE RECORDS, I probably would not read otherwise. I love the GLENNA TANENBAUM, MAX WEITZENHOFFER, back-of-the-book feature on artistic people and “I like hearing about regional and local art updates and ELIZABETH EICKMAN (ADVISOR) their work space/desk.” while tying it into the greater American art world.” LOUISA McCUNE, Executive Director “The apparent connection it makes between “It’s a brave stab at upping the art game in what’s going on in OKC with goings-on in NYC and Oklahoma City without mentioning the words other large metropolitan cities.” Chihuly or cowboy.” THE INSIDE FRONT COVER AND INSIDE BACK COVER ARE BY OKLAHOMA CITY ARTIST DENISE DUONG. deniseduongart.com

This issue of ArtDesk is dedicated to the memory of Nancy Records.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER Kirkpatrick Foundation—founded by John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick in 1955—is an Oklahoma City philanthropy supporting arts, culture, education, animal well-being, environmental conservation, and historic preservation.

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ArtDesk is a quarterly publication. Electronic documents can be sent to [email protected]. Kirkpatrick Foundation, ArtDesk, and its assignees will not be responsible for unsolicited material sent to ArtDesk. Please note: ArtDesk is published by the Kirkpatrick Foundation; no donations to Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center or Green Box Arts are used in the creation of this magazine. Copyright 2019. All rights reserved. Visit us at readartdesk.com and @readartdesk. Please be kind to animals and support local art.

ARTDESK 23 AT WORK | The art desk of a leading artist, architect, author, or performer in the contemporary arts

PHOTOGRAPH BY TWYLA THARP, OCTOBER 2019

OFF THE WALL

These days my “desk” is the wall. Because I have both a book with Simon & Schuster

and also a ballet with American Ballet Theatre due to deliver in late October, my

usual desk area is now somewhat bare. However, what remains is the wall where I

did most of my thinking for the new ballet. I often like a ghost shot of myself in my

photos, particularly for a ballet called A Gathering of Ghosts.

—TWYLA THARP

24 ARTDESK “The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.” — ANDY WARHOL OPENS ART IN MARCH A NEW 2020 LIGHT

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