Coming Soon to the Museum's Great Hall
[nggallery id=”53566″ template=galleryview] The Architect’s Newspaper has news about a temporary installation by Situ Studio that’s landing in the Brooklyn Museum’s Great Hall: “The work will transform the hall’s 16 classical columns with nearly 2,200 yards of Sunbrella Canvas-Natural fabric, which is to be folded and stretched over suspended bent-steel tubing and plywood rings with…
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The Architect’s Newspaper has news about a temporary installation by Situ Studio that’s landing in the Brooklyn Museum’s Great Hall: “The work will transform the hall’s 16 classical columns with nearly 2,200 yards of Sunbrella Canvas-Natural fabric, which is to be folded and stretched over suspended bent-steel tubing and plywood rings with diameters ranging from 5 to 20 feet. Beneath the fabric shapes, Situ will install benches and tables fabricated with LG Hausys HI-MACS solid surfacing, creating the rounded benches with a controlled heat process called thermoforming.” The museum notes that the “project will be the first installation in the Ennead Architects–designed renovation of the Great Hall, which was built in the early twentieth century as a part of the original McKim, Mead & White architecture.”
reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio [ArchPaper]
Exhibition Description [Brooklyn Museum]
they have other periods to cover if they want a larger audience audience i hate late warhol (recent show) but loved the 19th century french show from their collection about a year ago i am afraid photography brings in people, million dollar armoires not so much
Yes, the American collection is excellent; I was there on Sunday but very little of the Hudson River school was displayed. It’s depressing (oh God I feel a rant coming on but too busy today….).
“Minard, they exhibit what they can in their american collection upstairs.”
I know, I’m a member of the museum. But what they have on display now is a tiny fraction of what they own and what they used to display.
Minard, they exhibit what they can in their american collection upstairs. They have a great deal more to cover than the 19th century. SITU is a really creative group working in 20 Jay in dumbo, great folks.
Havens
donatella, the tragedy is that the Brooklyn Museum really does have a fantastic collection of high-fallutin’ old art. You would never know it.
Their collections of American Impressionist art and Hudson River School are stunning. At least they lend them to other institutions on traveling shows. The important collection of historic American furniture and decorative arts has disappeared. Who knows what they have done with it?
By Minard Lafever on February 15, 2011 11:53 AM
I think it is a brilliant stroke on the part of the Museum’s officers to hide all the art and instead present wrapped tablelamps to the public because we in Brooklyn don’t go in for that high-fallutin’ old art stuff.
Ahhhh, Minard. How true. I am curious to see this, but I agree that the museum has a big philosophical problem. They ignore their collection and their community outreach has a “special education” feel to it.
Overblown art, poor man’s Christo.
I think it is a brilliant stroke on the part of the Museum’s officers to hide all the art and instead present wrapped tablelamps to the public because we in Brooklyn don’t go in for that high-fallutin’ old art stuff.
It’s amusing that they are touting thermoforming when it’s the same process used in practically every cheap, low end, laminate kitchen cabinet out there. I like the rendering though. I’ll probably go to see this.