Leon Golub.IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929. It is privately supported. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was its first director. Operating at first in rented galleries, the museum specialized in loan shows of contemporary European and American art. A start toward its permanent collection was made with the Lillie P. Bliss bequest, which included nine Cézannes and the Daumier Washerwoman. Leon Golub's first European retrospective to date, curated by Jon Bird, will sample enough work from the '50s ("Bug" and "Sphinx sphinx (sfĭngks), mythical beast of ancient Egypt, frequently symbolizing the pharaoh as an incarnation of the sun god Ra. The sphinx was represented in sculpture usually in a recumbent position with the head of a man and the body of a lion, although some were constructed with rams' heads and others with hawks' heads." paintings), the '60s ("Gigantomachy" and "Napalm napalm (nā`päm), incendiary material developed during World War II by Harvard scientists cooperating with the U.S. army and used in bombs and flame throwers. Napalm is based on a mixture of gasoline, sometimes mixed with other petroleum fuels, and a thickening agent." paintings), the '705 (political portraits, the forty-foot Vietnam II), and the '80s ("Mercenaries," "Interrogations") to trace the story of his aesthetic and political dissents. The focus, though, will be the '90s art, which is both more fluid and aleatory aleatory adj. uncertain; usually applied to insurance contracts in which payment is dependent on the occurrence of a contingent event, such as injury to the insured person in an accident or fire damage to his insured building. than the earlier work and shows a less confrontational and reportorial artist attuned to a larger, almost mythic terrain of human misery. The results may smack of King Lear on the blasted heath, but, says Golub, "I'm trying to be sardonic." July 5-Oct. 19; South London Gallery, Nov. 3-Dec. 17; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, Jan. 19-Apr. 15, 2001. |
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