The People's Art: Selections from the Empire State Plaza Art Collection
"Smoker" by Philip Guston is one of the works in the exhibit.
Opening this weekend at the State Museum: The People's Art: Selections from the Empire State Plaza Art Collection.
The exhibit features 20 works from the ESP's extensive modern art collection, including works by artists such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, David Smith, and Alexander Calder. Blurbage:
The Empire State Plaza Art Collection has been heralded as one of the greatest collections of modern American art in any single public site. Beginning in 1965, following a procedure he established decades earlier during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, Governor Nelson Rockefeller assembled a commission of art experts to select the works for the Plaza and personally signed off on each acquisition. Funds for the art purchases were allocated as a percentage of the construction cost of each building on the Plaza.
The exhibit will be on display until September of 2017.
By the way: If you stop by to see this exhibit, you might also want to take the short walk over the ESP concourse and see Magnetic Shift, a display of works by Phil Frost. It's at the Corning Tower Plaza and concourse levels. And opens October 31. It will be on display until next August.
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I still hate the architecture of the ESP because of its inhuman scale and overall stupidity, but the art of that era, especially the paintings, has grown on me over the last decade or so.
... said LB on Oct 24, 2016 at 10:04 AM | link