FALL/WINTER 2014 MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN views Board of Trustees Lewis Kruger letter from the director 2 Chairman Jerome A. Chazen Chairman Emeritus current and upcoming exhibitions 4 Barbara Tober Chairman Emerita Edwin B. Hathaway Co-Treasurer new acquisitions 6 Fred Kleisner Co-Treasurer Michele Cohen Dear Friends, Secretary nyc makers: 10 Glenn Adamson THE MAD BIENNIAL What a year it has been at MAD. We have inaugurated a new biennial, celebrated and Nanette L. Laitman Director augmented our permanent collection and installed a new public artwork. Several new key staff Diego Arria an interview with benjamin fredrickson 12 members have joined our ranks. And through it all, we have welcomed a growing audience— Dror Benshetrit Marian C. Burke children and families, artists and collectors, tourists and New Yorkers—to 2 Columbus Circle. Cecily M. Carson Simona Chazen artslife 14 It seems a good time to reflect on the position of this Museum in the larger cultural landscape Charles S. Cohen of New York City, and beyond. The first edition of our biennial,NYC Makers, has been an Mike De Paola Eric Dobkin opportunity for us to host creative practitioners from across the five boroughs. Featuring 100 new territories: 16 Marcia Docter LABORATORIES FOR DESIGN, CRAFT AND ART IN LATIN AMERICA makers working in every conceivable trade and discipline, the show is an adventure for the C. Virginia Fields Carolee Friedlander Museum and for visitors alike. I hope that you have had a chance to visit the biennial already— Seth Glickenhaus and if not, that you will have a chance to see it before it closes on October 12, 2014. Sandra B. Grotta an interview with tom joyce 20 Edwin B. Hathaway Our next major show, New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America, is Lisa Herbert Michael Jesselson membership 22 even more ambitious. Featuring 77 creative practitioners from 10 cities, the exhibition continues Ann Kaplan our Museum’s celebration of skilled and inventive entrepreneurship. The objects you will encounter Nanette L. Laitman in this show, by turns arresting, beautiful, and challenging, speak to the inventiveness of Latin Eric J. Lee the store at MAD 23 Jeffrey Manocherian America today. They also show how design can be considered from a social and an ethical Robert Lee Morris perspective. Urban centers in Latin America are on the rise, affording many opportunities for Kambiz Shahbazi MAD happenings 24 Barbara Karp Shuster younger makers. But these cities (like cities anywhere) also contend with difficult factors: pollution, Klara Silverstein poverty and unpredictability. In New Territories we show how designers, artisans and artists are Angela Sun board news 26 addressing these issues, in ways that we here in New York City might well find inspiring. Ellen Taubman William S. Taubman And just last month, we also opened an exhibition that is particularly dear to my heart: a Miles Young MAD supporters and members 26 celebration of our founder, Mrs. Aileen Osborn Webb. One of the great visionaries of the Honorary twentieth century, Webb was a passionate and intelligent advocate for makers. She founded Kay Bucksbaum remembrances 30 many institutions over her long career, including the American Craft Council. In this exhibition—in Suzanne G. Elson Jane Korman which we ask, What Would Mrs. Webb Do?—we tell her story through some of the great objects Jack Lenor Larsen from our collection, and also suggest ways that we are carrying her legacy forward in the Jeanne Levitt special events 31 Nancy Marks twenty-first century. Aviva Robinson With exhibitions like these, not to mention the ongoing activities of our Education team (Artist Alfred R. Shands, IIII Studios, the Project Space, family days, film programs, workshops and more), there are so many Ex-Officio reasons to visit the Museum this autumn. We hope to see you here at 2 Columbus Circle—a hub Honorable Gale A. Brewer for New York City’s creative community. Glenn Adamson Nanette L. Laitman Director Museum of Arts and Design [ ON VIEW ] [ UPCOMING ] IL TA C Y HAEL KOR C richard estes: MI AN CRAFT COUN by nyc makers C PAINTING NeW YoRK CITY ERI PHOTO THE MAD BIENNIAL Am March–September 2015 OF Y Spanning from the mid-1960s to the present day, Richard Estes: ; COURTES bb Painting New York City surveys the work of this quintessential New York artist and pioneer of the Photorealist movement. It PAUL WE by july 1–october 12, 2014 combines for the first time a range of Estes’ works, art-making PHOTO tools and source materials to provide deeper insight into the artist’s creative process. JEROME AND SIMONA CHAZEN BUILDING Richard Estes 2 COLUMBUS CIRCLE, NYC MADMUSEUM.ORG Bridal Accessories, 1975 ERS Oil on canvas, 34 x 48 in. (91.44 x 121.92 cm) M E D Courtesy of a private collection C U L by Support for Richard Estes: Painting New York City is provided by the Wyeth Foundation for nyc makers: what would maryland to murano: American Art; the Robert Lehman Foundation; and Susan and David Rockefeller. The MAD BIENNIAL mrs. webb do? NecKPIeceS AND ScULPTURES PHOTO through October 12, 2014 BY JOYce J. Scott A FoUNdeR’S VISION through March 15, 2015 As MAD’s inaugural biennial, NYC Makers through February 8, 2015 examines the culture of making thriving Bringing together Scott’s neckpieces and blown ralph pucci Celebrating the enduring legacy of MAD’s throughout the five boroughs through the glass sculptures for the first time,Maryland to April–September 2015 founder Aileen Osborn Webb, this exhibition work of 100 artists, designers and artisans Murano examines Scott’s prolific career, defined highlights Webb’s advocacy and dedication Ralph Pucci will be the first museum exhibition of the work of and underscores the importance of craft in by her ever-evolving techniques, continued to skilled makers across America and features mannequin designer Ralph Pucci, whose innovative designs reflect contemporary life. exploration of provocative narratives and demographic and cultural trends and transform commercial objects drawn largely from the Museum’s commitment to her craft. Support for NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial is provided by permanent collection. armatures into agents of change in our attitudes to the body, to Autodesk; AlixPartners; Jack and Shirley Silver; Zabar’s; Buddha (Fire & Water), 2013, Joyce J. Scott fashion and to individual identity. Tiffany & Co.; Dan Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser; Support for What Mrs. Webb Do? A Founder’s Vision Hand-blown Murano glass processes with beads, wire, thread Goldman Sonnenfeldt Foundation; Siegelson, New York; is provided by Barbara Nitchie Fuldner, Barbara G. Courtesy of Goya Contemporary Ken Spitzbard; and Jill Bokor and Sanford Smith. In-kind Fleischman and Martha J. Fleischman. Additional support support for the exhibition has generously been provided by is made possible in part through the Collectors Circle, one Maryland to Murano: Neckpieces and Sculptures by Joyce J. Scott Maharam. Additional thanks to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, of the Museum’s upper-level support groups. is made possible through the generous support of The Robert the official airline of MAD. W. Deutsch Foundation; Christopher K. Ho; the Rotasa Foundation; Constance R. Caplan, Mark Caplan, Cathy OF THEARTIST Caplan, and Jonathan Caplan; and Marcia and Alan Docter. Y PHOTO COURTES [ UPCOMING ] new territories: LAboRAtoRIES FOR DESIGN, CRAFT AND ART wendell castle remastered IN LATIN AMERICA Opens September 2015 November 4, 2014–April 6, 2015 Wendell Castle Remastered will be the first museum exhibition to Featuring more than 75 designers, artists, craftspersons and collectives, New Territories examine the digitally crafted works by this internationally will survey the innovative, cross-disciplinary collaborations and new directions in creative acclaimed figure of the art furniture movement.L inking past and production that have been occurring throughout Latin America since 2000. The present through continuing innovation and responding to his own exhibition focuses on work emanating from a number of key cities that serve as cultural groundbreaking stack-laminated wood works from the 1960s, hubs for some of the most pertinent new ideas about art, design and craft. Castle will create an entirely new body of furniture that reveals the Organized by Lowery Stokes Sims, MAD’s William and Mildred Lasdon Chief increased degree of complexity and scale made possible by Curator, and Adriana Kertzer, Curatorial Assistant and Project Manager, New computer-mediated technologies. Territories is part of the Museum’s Global Makers Initiative—a series of exhibitions, AD Wendell Castle, Table-Chair-Stool, 1968, Afromosia, African hardwoods OF M Y launched in 2010 with The Global Africa Project, that highlights creation from parts Gift of the Johnson Wax Company, through the American Craft Council, 1977 of the world often under-represented in traditional museum settings. Support for Wendell Castle Remastered is provided by Susan Steinhauser and Dan Greenberg. PHOTOCOURTES Studio Swine & Andrea Bandoni Cactus Standing Lamp, from the São Paulo Collection, 2012 Pine, recycled materials, LED lighting, brass fittings, Courtesy of Coletivo Amor de Madre Major support for New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America is provided by the Ford Foundation and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. Additional support is provided by Karen and INE Sw OF THEARTIST Charles Phillips, Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, The Venezuelan American Endowment Y for the Arts, the Consulate General of Brazil in New York, The Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Family TUDIO S Foundation, the Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, the Consulate General of Argentina in New York, The by Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, and Ch.ACO, Contemporary Art Fair of Chile. Support for the PHOTO COURTES exhibition website is provided by Phillips. PHOTO 4 museum of arts and design MADMUSEUM.ORG VIEWS FALL/WINTER 2014 5 [ NEW ACQUISITIONS/COLLECTIONS ] 1 2 1 Todd Pavlisko OF THEARTST Untitled, Richard Pryor, 2011 Y OURTES Retail tag fasteners, canvas C NEW PHOTOJASON BY MANDELA 120 x 96 in.