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Last Modified 05/12/2008 11:56:07 AM EDT | |  NEWS AND NOTES
 Summer Lectures Move to the Fireplace Project
Thanks to the kind cooperation of Edsel Williams, director of the Fireplace Project, the summer lecture series will be held in his handsome contemporary art gallery, which is diagonally across the street from the Pollock-Krasner House at 851 Springs-Fireplace Road. This will take pressure off the historic site, where parking space and seating capacity are more limited, and allow us to introduce our audience to one of Springs’ most dynamic cultural attractions. Please see the program calendar for lecture details, and join us at the Fireplace Project on Sunday evenings at 5 p.m. |
 New Cell Phone Audio Tour
Can’t get along without your cell phone? Hate to turn it off when you come to the museum? Well, if you take our new cell phone audio tour, you won’t have to silence it during open hours on Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons from 1 to 5 p.m. in June, July and August. Developed for us by OnCell Audio®, the 35-minute tour is similar to the narration on the MP3 player that has been available for some time. With the cell phone tour, however, you can follow your own itinerary rather than a prescribed route. Both audio tours are free with museum admission. |
 “Poetry of Vision” Conference
The annual Pollock-Krasner / Stony Brook conference, “The Poetry of Vision: James Johnson Sweeney and the Twilight of Modernism,” supported by a generous grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, was held at Stony Brook Manhattan on April 25. Organized by Ciarán Bennett, the 2007 Pollock-Krasner / Stony Brook Research Fellow, the conference was the first scholarly appraisal of the influence of the critic, curator and museum director James Johnson Sweeney (1900-1986), an early enthusiast of Jackson Pollock’s work. Speakers addressed Sweeney’s family background, his brief but important tenure at the Museum of Modern Art, his years as director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and his involvement in the Rosc (poetry of vision) exhibitions of modern art in Dublin, Ireland. We hope that this initial effort will stimulate additional research into Sweeney’s role in the 20th century art world. |
 Woman’s Art Journal Special Krasner Issue
The fall/winter 2007 issue of the Woman’s Art Journal, edited by Joan Marter and Margaret Barlow, contains five essays on Lee Krasner, based on papers delivered at last year’s Pollock-Krasner / Stony Brook conference, “The Art and Life of Lee Krasner: Recollections, Cultural Context and New Perspectives,” organized by Gail Levin. Topics include Krasner’s relationship to Jewish culture, her study with Hans Hofmann, and her involvement with postmodernism. Copies are available for sale in the Museum Store. |
Krasner Mosaic Murals Restored
In 1958, Lee Krasner was commissioned by Uris Buildings Corporation to create two large mosaic murals for an office building at 2 Broadway in Manhattan. Working with her nephew, Ronald Stein, Krasner developed lively abstract designs based on paper collages. The mural on the Broadway façade is 12 ½ feet tall and 86 feet long—almost 1,100 square feet. For the Broad Street entrance, Krasner designed a 15 by 15 foot square mosaic. Both murals are made of Venetian glass. Instead of cutting the glass into conventional tesserae, it was smashed into large irregular pieces in order, as Krasner put it, “to break through the rigidity” of the mosaic tradition and “bring it into today.” The murals were installed in 1959.
Over the years since then, some of the glass had worked loose, and structural cracks had developed in some areas. Last fall the murals were restored by Israel Berger & Associates, Inc., under the auspices of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, one of the building’s principal tenants. We are grateful to the building’s manager, Gerald J. Iacouzzi, and John Tobin of the management company, Colliers ARB, to Russell Newbold of Israel Berger, and to Lester Burg of the MTA for involving us in all stages of the project. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation underwrote the plaques identifying Lee Krasner as the author of these beautiful and impressive murals. |
 Italian Theater Company Performs Pollock Play
Laminarie, an experimental theater company based in Bologna, Italy, will bring their original theater work, “Jackson Pollock: on the other hand,” to New York City in May. The group’s co-founders, Febo Del Zozzo and Bruna Gambarelli, visited the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in 2006 to do research for the production. They will discuss their concepts at the Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, on May 28 at 6 p.m. Admission is free. For further information, telephone the institute at 212 879 4242. Laminarie will perform “Jackson Pollock: on the other hand” on May 30 at 8 p.m. in the Ida K. Lang Recital Hall at Hunter College. Tickets are $15. Please call the box office, 212-772-4448 for tickets and further information. |
 ArtHamptons Benefit on July 11
On Friday, July 11, from noon to 6 p.m., the VIP tent at ArtHamptons—an international art fair on the grounds of the Bridge Hampton Historical Society—will host a reception and silent auction for the benefit of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. Highlighted by a 1974 Lee Krasner screen print, the auction also features works by several of her friends and colleagues. Helen A. Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and author of Hamptons Bohemia, will host a book-signing. The proceeds from that day’s admissions to ArtHamptons will be donated to the Pollock-Krasner House, and visitors to the VIP tent will receive complementary admission to the museum. The event is sponsored by Hamptons Magazine, Plum TV and WLIU 88.3 FM. For more information, visit the ArtHamptons Web site, http://arthamptons.com/special_events.php |
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