This Miyok wheatpasting is left over from earlier last winter. Still holding on, it’s on Wythe Avenue in Wiliamsburg. ‘Dr. Mario’ by Miyok, Williamsburg. Photo by Kelsey Savage.
NEW YORK – Based on the Korean word for bad medicine, Miyok leaves his disgruntled pill wheatpastes all over New York City and Brooklyn. But does his guerrilla advertising for his skateboard-style clothing line, Miyok Madness, qualify as street art? Aren’t graffiti tags a form of independent branding as elaborate as any corporate logo?
The best guerrilla marketing feels authentic, as does Miyok’s use of grumpy medication mixed with Nintendo Dr. Mario. Like great street art, his wheatpastes take you by surprise, are easily associated as part of his individual presence, and make a lasting impression on the cheap.
Because the pastings shown here have been up since at least February, they easily qualify as lasting and their use of iconic, old-school imagery definitely fits the Williamsburg audience for his urban T-shirts and fashion.
The most effective use of Miyok’s art is that not every piece is labeled with his name or website—he just makes sure his pieces are so recognizable that he can advertise without marring the piece with text. Of course, guerrilla marketing only works with consistency so I’ll be on the lookout for more “bad medicine” in the boroughs and the city.
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This Miyok wheatpasting is left over from earlier last winter. Still holding on, it’s on Wythe Avenue in Wiliamsburg. ‘Dr. Mario’ by Miyok, Williamsburg. Photo by Kelsey Savage.Miyok picks a busy location for his street art/guerrilla marketing effort. ‘Dr. Mario’ by Miyok, Williamsburg. Photo by Kelsey Savage.Miyok’s disgruntled pill salutes faces off with McCarren Park in Williamsburg. ‘Dedicated to Staying Medicated’ by Miyok. Photo by Kelsey Savage.
New England Queen Anne bonnet top maple highboy, circa 1760, 81 1/2 inches high. Image courtesy Pook & Pook Inc.
DOWINGTOWN, Pa. – Pook & Pook Inc. will host a two-day Decorative Arts Sale on Wednesday, May 23, and Thursday, May 24, beginning at 10 a.m. EDT both days. The sale will showcase four large estates and collections including Russel and Eleanor Gohn and Virginia Whitely Thornton of York, Pa., Charlene Sussel of Garrett Park, Md., and Tremayne Selig of Philadelphia.
LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.
The Gohn estate, lots 1-663, will be sold on the first day of the auction. A wide array of objects from furniture and accessories to porcelain and silver, will be available to prospective buyers.
The first lot, an attractive miniature Pennsylvania walnut blanket chest is estimated at $1,000-$2,000. Several tall case clocks are included: a York County example by Peter Schutz (est. $1,500-$2,500), two Chippendale walnut examples and Federal pine clock. Pennsylvania corner cupboards, Dutch cupboards and wall cupboards are offered. A Lancaster County sulphur inlaid walnut blanket chest dated 1776 is sure to attract bidders.
A six-piece Redlich & Co. sterling silver tea service (est. $4,000-$7,000) is one of many lots of sterling silver table objects. A pair of Continental 800 silver platters with hunting scenes are unusual (est. $2,000-$4,000).
Eleanor Gohn’s large collection of gold jewelry includes many Victorian chains, charm bracelets, cameos and diamond rings. An 18K yellow gold moveable pin of a blooming flower with an emerald cluster center and diamond tipped petals is an outstanding piece.
Chinese porcelains are noteworthy, encompassing blue and white garniture vases, Canton platters, Famille Rose butterfly plates, celadon pieces, armorials, cloisonné vases, Famille Rose punch bowl and plaques to name a few.
Thursday will begin with items from the estate of Virginia Whitely Thornton. This section of the Thornton estate will focus mainly on porcelain and silver. A set of 12 Capo di Monte plates with relief putti decoration, a Minton dinner service, Herend Rothschild bird pattern plates, Coalport Cairo dinner service, royal Doulton Chatham dinner service and Limoges pieces are examples.
Chinese pottery and porcelain add to the group. The sale will continue with the collection of Charlene Sussel. The emphasis here will be on art glass including Steuben, Libbey, Erickson, Baccarat, Aristide Colotte Nancy and Orrefors. A Steuben green jade glass vase with alabaster handles is 10 inches high and carries an estimate of $500-$1,000. An acid-cut Rosaline to alabaster vase is another fine piece. Other items include a massive peachblow lily vase (23 1/2 inches high), a green ruffle glass epergne, a Tiffany Faville glass bottle with heart and vine decoration, a Tiffany vase numbered N590 and a Stevens & Williams silveria and green thread vase.
The sale will end with the estate of Tremayne Selig of Philadelphia. A fine New England Federal mahogany sideboard is the first lot. With a D-shaped top and bellflower inlays, it is a good looking piece. Ten Federal mahogany dining chairs, 19th century, have arched crest rails and carved splats with a sheaf of wheat pattern (est. $1,500-$2,500). Other notable furniture pieces include a Philadelphia Chippendale mahogany secretary desk (est. $3,000-$4,000), a New England Queen Anne tiger maple tall chest (est. $2,000-$3,000), a Massachusetts Hepplewhite mahogany card table with extensive inlay (est. $2,000-$3,000) and a New England Queen Anne bonnet top maple highboy ($4,000-$5,000).
A P.J. Mene bronze of a highlander with a fox and hound is an interesting piece (est. $3,000-$4,000) as well as an Antoine Barye bronze of a tiger attacking an antelope (est. $1,000-$2,000). The Fairfield Porter oil on canvas titled White Lilacs will appeal to many. Two pair of floral still lifes by Jane Peterson are tempting as well as an oil on canvas courtyard scene attributed to Violet Oakley labeled Violet Oakley Garden of Cogslea Small Figure of Mrs. Oakley. Cogslea was the artist’s home in Philadelphia.
A significant sterling silver flatware service by Statesbury, retailed by Cartier, is offered. Each piece has an 18K gold monogram (est. $12,000-$18,000). Other appealing items include a set of four Marc Chagal engravings, a Milton Avery drypoint, an early canvaswork pastoral landscape, a large giltwood convex mirror and a New York portrait of five children in an interior.
For additional information on this sale, go to www.pookandpook.com or call 610-269-4040.
New England Queen Anne bonnet top maple highboy, circa 1760, 81 1/2 inches high. Image courtesy Pook & Pook Inc.
Attributed to Violet Oakley (American, 1874-1961), oil on canvas courtyard scene, labeled verso ‘Violet Oakley Garden of Cogslea Small figure of Mrs. Oakley,’ 30 x 25 inches. Image courtesy Pook & Pook Inc.
Tiffany Favrile glass bottle vase with heart and vine decoration, signed and numbered ‘4071J,’ 6 inches high. Image courtesy Pook & Pook Inc.
New England Federal mahogany sideboard, circa 1790, with a D shaped top, bellflower inlays and square tapering legs. Image courtesy Pook & Pook Inc.
Philadelphia Chippendale mahogany secretary desk, circa 1765. Image courtesy Pook & Pook Inc.
Chinese export porcelain Famille Rose punch bowl, 19th century, 15 1/2 inches diameter. Image courtesy Pook & Pook Inc.
Pair of Continental 800 silver platters, late 19th century, with hunting scenes in high relief, 103 troy ounces. Image courtesy Pook & Pook Inc.
Norbert Goeneutte (French, 1854-1894), ‘Jeune Femme au Petit Chien Noir,’ oil on canvas, 29 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches. Estimate: $10,000-$15,000. Image courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries. NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans Auction Galleries Inc. will conduct their Major Estates Auction, taking place Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 20. LiveAuctionieers.com will provide Internet live bidding for this sale of over 1,400 lots from a variety of private collections and estates.
The first session begins at 10 a.m. CDT on Saturday and includes lots 1-813. The Sunday session starts at 11 a.m. CDT and includes lots 814-1444. Guests are welcome to preview daily from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in advance of the auction, and a late evening preview party will be held on Thursday, May 17, 5:30-8 p.m.
The exhibition staff at New Orleans Auction has created wonderful room settings once again. Entering the first vignette is like stepping into a time capsule. It is interesting to note that most everything in that setting, from the monumental mantel mirrors to the American Rococo Revival etagere, came from an uptown New Orleans mansion, which had been left untouched for nearly a century and a half. Remarkably, most of these items can be seen in an early black and white vintage photograph discovered by one of the descendants.
Other interesting vignettes include mid-century modern décor, carved rosewood furnishings from the Victorian era, warm country French settings, and fancy ormolu mounted French furnishings.
Notable highlights include:
An important American Federal inlaid mahogany Pembroke table, attributed to William Whitehead, New York, active 1792-1799.
Exceptional collections of carved ivory
One of the earliest surviving paintings by Jean Joseph Vaudechamp, (French, 1790-1866, active New Orleans 1831-1839).
An important mid-19th century American Gothic Revival oak hall chair – identical to those at Stanton Hall Plantation in Natchez, Miss.
An interesting forged, fabricated and twisted steel, glass-top table by Albert Paley (American, b. 1944).
A superb, rare Chinese hanging Yunjin brocade cushion cover, 17th/18th century.
A rare Chinese woven and embroidered lady’s imperial dragon robe, Ch’i-fu, 18th century.
Norbert Goeneutte, (French, 1854-1894), oil on canvas, Jeune au Petit Chien Noir.
Carolina Herrera black velvet and sequined matt satin cocktail dress
Dale Chihuly, (American, b. 1941), large blown glass Macchia bowl.
Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer, (American/Louisiana, 1912-1997), large mixed media on canvas.
There is also a large assortment of fine furniture, silver, jewelry, vintage couture and designer accessories, and more.
For more information regarding this major estate auction and New Orleans Auction Galleries Inc. or to view a complete catalog listing, visit www.neworleansauction.com.
For more information on New Orleans Auction Galleries Inc. visit www.neworleansauction.com, call 504-566-1849 or visit the Gallery at 801 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 71030.
Norbert Goeneutte (French, 1854-1894), ‘Jeune Femme au Petit Chien Noir,’ oil on canvas, 29 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches. Estimate: $10,000-$15,000. Image courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries.
Rare Chinese hanging Yunjin brocade cushion cover, 17th/18th century. Image courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries.
Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941), glass Macchia bowl, signed in engraved script: ‘Chihuly 1986.’ Image courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries.
Jean Joseph Vaudechamp (French, 1790-1866, active New Orleans 1831-39), ‘Portrait of a Man and Woman, Presumably Baroness Louise Deconchy Receiving Word of Her Husband’s Death in Battle,’ oil on canvas, signed and dated 1823. Estimate: $20,000-$40,000. Image courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries.
Important American Federal inlaid mahogany Pembroke table, attributed to William Whitehead, New York, active 1792-1799. Estimate: $15,000-$25,000. Image courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries.
Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer (American/Louisiana, 1912-1997), ‘Synthesis,’ mixed media on canvas, signed and dated ‘1983 Kohlmeyer,’ 38 x 65 inches. Image courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries.
Actor William Shatner (left) and his wife Elizabeth were in Louisville on Tuesday to unveil a bronze sculpture that he donated to the Frazier History Museum. The sculpture, by Kentucky artist Douwe Blumberg (right), depicts a samurai warrior on horseback. The sculpture is a copy of one that Shatner owns. Image courtesy Frazier History Museum.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Samurai were as artistic and philosophical as they were dangerous. The epic tale of the one of the greatest warrior cultures in history, and how it shaped an entire nation, is the theme of an extraordinary new exhibition that opened May 12 at the Frazier History Museum.
The beauty, artistry and richness of this ancient culture are explored through “Samurai,” a 3,800-square-foot exhibition that immerses visitors in the mysterious, and often misunderstood, world of this vanished Japanese noble class.
Produced by the Frazier History Museum in partnership with the Kokusai Tosogu Kai (KTK), “Samurai” presents a once in a lifetime opportunity to see some of the world’s finest artifacts relating to the legacy left by this great warrior culture, including over 200 objects—from armor and swords to rare textiles, artwork and religious items. Shown exclusively at the Frazier, this original exhibition will feature national treasure-level artifacts from collections in Japan and around the world.
Visitors will see a diverse collection of artifacts spanning 1,500 years—including kimonos, wood block prints, theater masks, religious items and tea ceremony objects—from a culture that’s often portrayed in movies and TV, but that few people truly understand.
Centuries-old armor made of iron, silk and gilded metal showcase how the samurai used their artistry to convey ferocity and instill fear. Personal items, such as painted scrolls and screens, reveal a more intimate side of samurai culture and help expose the role of women in samurai society.
In addition to authentic historical objects, “Samurai” explores the real stories behind the iconic samurai, ninjas and geisha that are so prevalently portrayed in pop culture.
On top of amassing one of the most impressive collections of samurai-related objects ever on display in the U.S., most of which has never been seen by the public, the Frazier Museum’s “Samurai” is significant because it’s a rare introduction to a driving force of Japanese history.
“What we think of as Japanese culture today is actually very much driven by what was the samurai way of life,” said Frazier Museum director Madeleine Burnside. “Samurai values influenced fashion, theater, architecture and all aspects of Japanese culture, helping form the very foundation of the Japanese society that we know today.”
“Samurai,” which is included in regular museum admission, runs through Sept. 30.
Visit www.FrazierMuseum.org or call (502) 753-5663 for details.
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Actor William Shatner (left) and his wife Elizabeth were in Louisville on Tuesday to unveil a bronze sculpture that he donated to the Frazier History Museum. The sculpture, by Kentucky artist Douwe Blumberg (right), depicts a samurai warrior on horseback. The sculpture is a copy of one that Shatner owns. Image courtesy Fazier History Museum.
View of Hong Kong from Victoria Peak. Image by chensiyuan. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
HONG KONG (AFP) – The glittering Hong Kong International Art Fair opened Thursday, featuring works by artists from Picasso to Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei and cementing the city’s status as a global art hub.
More than 260 galleries from 38 countries, representing an even split from the West and the East, have booked space at the four-day event known as Art HK, now in its fifth edition.
“The transformation here culturally has been pretty significant,” art collector and fair board member Richard Chang told reporters ahead of the opening, referring to Hong Kong’s emergence as a center of the Asian art world.
“It’s testament to what is happening in this region and it’s very exciting.”
A record 63,511 visitors attended Art HK last year, and organizers expect a bigger crowd in 2012. The prestigious Frieze New York fair earlier this month attracted a reported 45,000 visitors.
A Wednesday night preview drew thousands of VIPs who had first pick of works including Ai’s Cong, a chilling installation about child deaths in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, a Sherrie Levine cast bronze called Dada, and a fresh-off-the-easel 2012 portrait in oil of Lady Gaga by Yan Pei-Ming.
Director Magnus Renfrew said there had been a marked increase in interest from Western dealers.
“The art market tends to follow the money and the greatest source of wealth at the moment is in Asia,” he said.
Traditionally known as a center of banking and finance, Hong Kong has become a hub of all things luxury—from fine wine to fashion and, increasingly, art—thanks to the explosion of personal wealth among mainland Chinese.
Western gallery owners are rushing to open franchises in the former British colony, despite some of the most expensive rents in the world.
Gagosian, White Cube, Acquavella, Simon Lee and Pearl Lam are just some of the recent arrivals. The government is also weighing in, with a massive art and culture district being developed on the harbor in Kowloon.
“If you look at the caliber of some of the exhibitions this year, it’s a top-tier fair now,” London-based Australian gallery owner Simon Lee told AFP.
He said his “boutique-type offering” was more about making contacts and introducing his gallery to the Asian market than selling art to collectors.
“I can’t hope to just come over here, plonk a few things on a booth and think it’s all going to happen. It’s sort of condescending to think it will all happen without doing the ground work,” he said.
Asian private museum owners, such as Indonesian tobacco baron Oei Hong Djin, whose OHD Museum is a de facto national gallery, were also well represented as they hunted additions for their collections.
“We do not have a national museum and the government is not taking steps in the direction, so we as private collectors have to take over that role,” he said, referring to his homeland of 240 million people.
Asia’s art boom has caught the eye of the world’s biggest art fair franchise, Art Basel, which bought a controlling stake in Art HK a year ago.
The Hong Kong fair’s 2013 edition will be held under the Art Basel banner.
Meanwhile a new art fair devoted to “affordable” contemporary art will be held in Hong Kong next year, confirming the city’s new status as a hot ticket on the art scene.
The fair is being put together by Affordable Art China, a company that has organized a similar event in Beijing since 2006 and is opening a new franchise in Shanghai later this year.
Chief executive Tom Pattinson said the new fair offered a chance for smaller galleries and emerging artists to showcase their work in the booming art market of Hong Kong, now third only to New York and London in terms of art auctions.
“The success of the events in mainland China has demonstrated the demand for accessible contemporary fine art in the region and Hong Kong is now a major focus for us as we launch our first event in this territory,” he said.
He said the value of the “affordable art” market—pieces priced at less than $5,000—in China was estimated at $1.1 billion a year, and was doubling annually.
Renfrew said the new fair was not a threat to Art HK, which is held at the city’s vast harborside convention center, as the two events catered to “very different audiences”.
“There are now more billionaires in Asia than there are in Europe, so it’s a very exciting time for the art market here,” he said.
“It takes time to build an audience in Asia but the galleries are increasingly seeing that they have to diversify their audience and put in that investment and time.”
Art fairs and auctions around the world have seen giddy bidding despite, or perhaps because of, the turmoil in the eurozone and on the world’s stock markets, as investors look for other places to park their money.
At Sotheby’s impressionist and modern sale in New York earlier this month, the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch’s The Scream went for $119.9 million, the most ever paid for any art work at public auction.
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View of Hong Kong from Victoria Peak. Image by chensiyuan. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
The Mark Twain boyhood home has been preserved in Hannibal, Mo., a stone’s throw from the Mississippi River. Image by Andrew Balet. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) – The northeast Missouri town of Hannibal is celebrating the centennial of the dedication of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home.
The famed author and humorist was born in nearby Florida, Mo., but grew up in Hannibal. The Quincy Herald-Whig reports that his boyhood home was about to be demolished when a wealthy benefactor stepped in to save it, then presented it to the city in a formal dedication on May 12, 1912.
A large gathering in Hannibal on Tuesday marked the anniversary.
Today, the small two-story house a few blocks from the Mississippi River is among several buildings that are part of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum.
Twain was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Mo., in 1835. His family moved to Hannibal when he was a small boy. He would eventually use the unique people from the town as the basis for characters in some of his most famous works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi.
After the family moved away from the home in 1853 it became rental property, then a restaurant, and eventually fell into disrepair. It was slated for demolition in 1911, just months after Twain died in Connecticut.
A civic group tried to organize a campaign to raise money and save the home, but it failed. Fortunately, a wealthy resident, George Mahan, stepped forward and funded the restoration, then gave the house to the city.
“It was a very early preservation attempt that obviously has proven to be very, very successful,” Curator Henry Sweets said.
The museum was formally established in 1926. It now sits in a separate building about a block away from the home. Several other buildings on Hill Street are now part of the museum complex.
The Boyhood Home was completely restored in 1990 and 1991, with two rooms that had been removed from the rear of the house in the 1880s reconstructed as they would have stood.
Sweets estimated that more than 8.5 million people have visited the home since 1912.
“I think the main thing (I get) out of the centennial is the recognition of the foresightedness of George Mahan in saving and preserving the Boyhood Home,” Sweets said.
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Information from: The Quincy Herald-Whig, http://www.whig.com
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The Mark Twain boyhood home has been preserved in Hannibal, Mo., a stone’s throw from the Mississippi River. Image by Andrew Balet. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Official White House portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Architect Frank Gehry and his design team proposed changes Tuesday to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial planned for a site near the National Mall after hearing complaints from Ike’s family for months.
The family had said the design focuses too much on Eisenhower’s humble Kansas roots, rather than his accomplishments.
Members of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission held a public meeting to review changes and said they were nearing a resolution to seek final approval of Gehry’s concept.
Gehry has proposed a memorial park that would be framed with large metal tapestries showing a Kansas landscape to evoke Eisenhower’s boyhood home in Abilene, Kan. At the center of the park, Gehry is replacing large images in stone reliefs with statues standing about 9 feet tall, showing Ike as a World War II hero and as president.
In a letter to the commission Tuesday, Gehry explained the changes. He couldn’t attend because his firm designed the set for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s production of Don Giovanni, opening Friday.
“How do you represent a man of such towering achievement whose modesty was one of his core values?” Gehry wrote. “I have refined the design to incorporate this feedback, which I believe helps tell the story of Eisenhower with more dignity and more power.”
The statues would depict Gen. Eisenhower with the 101st Airborne Division of soldiers before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, in World War II.
Eisenhower as president would be depicted with his hand on a globe, inspired by a Yousuf Karsh photograph titled The Elder Statesman.
“After careful consideration, I believe that the sculptures bring the story to life in a more powerful and accessible way than the bas reliefs were able to do,” Gehry wrote, reversing his early rejection of statues.
Commission chairman Rocco Siciliano, who served in Eisenhower’s White House, told the commissioners that Gehry’s shift to statues represented a “very big, powerful change.”
Susan Eisenhower, the 34th president’s granddaughter, said her family had seen Gehry’s updated design and had time to ask questions, but she declined comment Tuesday. She said she would be consulting with her family.
Quotations from Eisenhower would serve as a backdrop for the statues, along with language spelling out his accomplishments as a war general and as a president who led eight years of peace and prosperity. The exact wording will be approved later, according to members of the commission.
A life-size sculpture of a young Eisenhower would remain at the center of the memorial, looking out at his future accomplishments, despite the family’s earlier objections. Gehry said it will be an inspiration for the thousands of children who will visit the site.
To develop final images for the tapestries, designers with Gehry’s firm said they had been photographing Kansas landscapes.
“Eisenhower was so proud to grow up in Kansas—leaving out this imagery would mean omitting an important part of his story,” Gehry wrote.
At a congressional hearing in March, one of Eisenhower’s granddaughters compared the metal tapestries to the fences of a concentration camp in the Holocaust.
Later, Gehry revealed he had family members who died in the Holocaust. The tapestries are one part of the design he seems determined to protect.
The memorial commission was to vote at a later date. All the members who were present, though, voiced approval.
The 12-year-old memorial effort will rely on private fundraising and money from Congress. Organizers hope to complete it by 2015 at a cost of about $142 million since the effort began.
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, who has served on the commission for years, said he and others have tried to resolve differences over the design and are “very close” to moving forward.
“From the beginning, I have supported this design because it brings Kansas to the National Mall,” Roberts said. “By Ike’s own words before over 200,000 people when he came back after the war … ‘The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.’”
Milton Grenfell, an architect and board member of a group called the National Civic Art Society that promotes traditional architecture, said none of Gehry’s changes satisfied critics. Having 9-foot-tall statues with nothing to frame them will look like “zombies,” and the tapestries are a “tangled mess of steel” that won’t last forever, he said.
“Our big problem with it is it does not strive for beauty,” Grenfell said.
Louis Galambos, a Johns Hopkins University historian who edited and published Eisenhower’s papers over 25 years, said every memorial provokes debate. Still, he said Gehry’s design captures the heartland, Eisenhower the man and a sense of his values.
“That’s what Gehry’s accomplishment is,” he said. “He has jumped ahead of the other memorials or away from them. He has broken new ground with this.”
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Official White House portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Slip-decorated, lead-glazed earthenware bowl, attributed to New Market, Va., circa 1815-1830. From the shop of Christian and Jacob Adam or Andrew and John Coffman.
MOUNT CRAWFORD, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Inc. is conducting its second annual Virginia Decorative Arts Seminar on Saturday, June 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The all-day event is focused on regional Virginia earthenware and will be held at the JSE & Associates auction gallery located at 2177 Green Valley Lane. The deadline to register is June 8.
The exciting, one-day colloquium features five expert guest speakers who will present lectures related to this year’s topic, “Earthenware of the Old Dominion: Important New Research and Discoveries.” Speakers include:
Johanna M. Brown, Curator of Moravian Decorative Arts and Director of Collections, Old Salem Museum and Gardens.
Jeffrey S. Evans, president of Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Inc.
Brenda Hornsby Heindl, independent scholar and potter.
J. Roderick “Roddy” Moore, director of the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum at Ferrum College.
Kurt C. Russ, independent scholar and former director of Washington and Lee University’s anthropology laboratory.
Scott H. Suter, associate professor of English and American Studies at Bridgewater College.
The event will be preceded by an informal tailgate sale in the JSE & Associates parking lot beginning at 8:30 a.m. The tailgate sale is available only to attendees of the seminar; participants in the tailgate sale should bring their own tables.
The cost per person for the seminar is $75 (with lunch) or $65 (without lunch).
Visit the Education>Classes/Seminars page at www.jeffreysevans.com for links to the printable registration form, speaker bios, program schedule, directions and information about last year’s seminar. For information and/or to arrange your registration for the seminar, call 540-434-3939 and press 0 for the office or email info@jeffreysevans.com.
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Slip-decorated, lead-glazed earthenware bowl, attributed to New Market, Va., circa 1815-1830. From the shop of Christian and Jacob Adam or Andrew and John Coffman.
