students from Ridgewood High school in New Jersey came to MAD and visited Open Studios for a while. I demonstrated how to build a small car using a template that I devised. The students applauded when I completed the car in about three minutes.
Before the opening of the exhibition, while working on the catalogue and press, our main challenge was to convey how small these works really are. The scale of the works in real life is nearly unbelievable. Well, NEARLY.
We just got a whole bunch of these killer-cool posters in for Risk + Reward, our upcoming performancance series, designed by Ryan Waller and Vance Wellenstein. Read on to hear more about this project, and their new studio venture Other Means.
Just in time for the new academic year, Joseph Cavalieri gives a shout-out to a major resource center for artists: Penland School of Crafts.
We’re hard at work on a re-design, dearest readers! Thank you for your patience with this interruption in content. We’ll be back soon with a new look and new artists!
yours truly,
Molly
It’s Eve, one of the new education interns here at MAD. Just wanted to introduce myself, as I am going to be posting some comments and thoughts over the next few months. I am a recent graduate with a Bachelor’s in Sociology, but have always been heavily interested in art education, essentially in the potential power of art to educate, provoke, and inspire.
There’s a pair of great articles in the Wall Street Journal this morning on the Museum. The first is by the renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable (who reviewed the original Edward Durrell Stone building at 2 Columbus Circle when it was first opened in 1964 in an article that forever branded that structure as the ‘lollipop building’ ), and the second a review of our exhibitions by Dominique Browning. (more…)
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