The Brant Foundation exterior, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Image courtesy of The Brant Foundation
Private museums are a “part of our American art culture,” said Jeffrey Deitch, the former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and now a dealer, calling their recent burst of growth [in 2015] “one of the most exciting developments in the international art world.” A limited number of people, however, get the opportunity to see the art in private museums. The Brant Art Study Center (in Greenwich, Connecticut) and the Glenstone (in Potomac, Maryland), for example, are only open only a few days a week to small groups, and visits must be arranged in advance.
We recently stumbled upon the website World Art Foundations, touting as “the platform for art foundations worldwide”. A google map, list of websites, and editorial to highlight current foundation exhibitions and projects serve to inspire and is a perfect planning tool around travel. Enjoy videos and interviews with directors of Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, the Terra Foundation, the Graham Foundation and more.
Olafur Eliasson: Works from the Boros Collection (1994 – 2015) at the Langen Foundation
Image courtesy of Art School Vets
The Langen collection also features ZERO artists, perfectly housed in Ando’s minimal and linear museum structure.
Image of the Langen Foundation courtesy of Architect Boy
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates its first anniversary in its new home “with a wide-ranging series of exhibitions, tours, and events that reflect how it is a place where people, art, and ideas make history”. Small Axe is Urs Fischer‘s first exhibition in Russia includes more than 20 hand-painted bronze sculptures made exclusively for the show.
Now through August 21, 2016.
Urs Fischer, 2014. Aluminum panel, aramid honeycomb, two-component polyurethane adhesive, two-component epoxy primer, galvanized steel rivet nuts, acrylic primer, gesso, acrylic ink, acrylic silkscreen medium, acrylic paint. © Urs Fischer.
Image courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York. Photo: Mats Nordman. via Garage MCA