#primary structures

[grupaok]

Curator Kynaston McShine at the opening of his exhibition Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York City, 1966

[thejewishmuseum]

The Jewish Museum is saddened to learn about the passing of Kynaston McShine. He was a visionary curator, and on the staff of the Jewish Museum from 1965–1967 as Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and from 1967–1968 as Acting Director. Kynaston McShine organized many exhibitions including one-person shows of Gene Davis, Robert Irwin, Yves Klein, and Richard Smith, in addition to Large Scale American Paintings, Recent Italian Painting and Sculpture, and Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, for which he will long be remembered. McShine is pictured here (center) at the opening of Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum, April 27, 1966.

[gagosiangallery]

Closing soon: Primary Structures at MMK2, Frankfurt am Main

AUGUST 7, 2017

"Primary Structures. Masterworks of Minimal Art" at MMK2 Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany ends this Sunday, August 13.

The Minimal art current emerged in the US in the early 1960s, its exponents striving in their works for objectiveness, logic, and industrial production without artistic signature. The exhibition investigates the international impact of the influential Minimal art movement from the ’60s to the present. This show includes works by Richard Artschwager, Walter De Maria, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, and Richard Serra. Click on the link in our bio for visitor information. __________ Image: Walter De Maria, Cage, 1965 © 2017 The Estate of Walter De Maria.

[thejewishmuseum]

Opening tomorrow, Masterpieces and Curiosities: Elaine Lustig Cohen features over 30 works by the late pioneering graphic designer and artist. From 1962 to 1967, she helped shape the Jewish Museum’s institutional identity by directing the design of printed ephemera and catalogues, including the historic exhibition Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors from 1966.

[alisondevito]

Primary Structures exhibit at the Jewish Museum

New York, NY

1966

[thejewishmuseum]

Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica was born on this day in 1937. Spatial Relief was on view in our 2014 exhibition Other Primary Structures which reexamined the historic 1966 Jewish Museum exhibition Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors from a global point of view. 

[lostprofile]

MINIMALISM 5: TONY SMITH

It was a dark night and there were no lights or shoulder markers, lines, railings or anything at all except the dark pavement moving through the landscape of the flats, rimmed by hills in the distance, but punctuated by stacks, towers, fumes and colored lights. This drive was a revealing experience. The road and much of the landscape was artificial, and yet it couldn't be called a work of art. On the other hand, it did something for me that art has never done. At first I didn't know what it was, but its effect was to liberate me from many of the views I had about art. It seemed that there was a reality there which had not had any expression in art.

-- Tony Smith on illegally driving on an unfinished, unlit, unmarked segment of the New Jersey Turnpike, c. 1957, unopened to the public at the time.