sculptor Anish Kapoor</a>. Consisting of two sixteen-foot lengths of polished steel that are gently curved to create a continuous convex and concave wall, the work recalls the exploration of form that <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Perspectives--Anish-Kapoor/"/Artist/Anish-Kapoor/DE9963723A168503">Kapoor most famously presented in "Cloud Gate" in Chicago`s Millennium Park. At a height of seven feet and with highly reflective surfaces, "S-Curve" engages viewers in a powerful physical and visual experience within the Sackler Gallery. Known for his sublime approach to pure form, space, and materials since the early 1980s, Kapoor continues to examine spatial perception and the immateriality of the object through this work." />
Perspectives: Anish Kapoor
Nov 22, 2008 - Jul 19, 2009
The "Perspectives" series of contemporary Asian art resumes with "S-Curve" (2006) by internationally renowned Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor. Consisting of two sixteen-foot lengths of polished steel that are gently curved to create a continuous convex and concave wall, the work recalls the exploration of form that Kapoor most famously presented in "Cloud Gate" in Chicago`s Millennium Park. At a height of seven feet and with highly reflective surfaces, "S-Curve" engages viewers in a powerful physical and visual experience within the Sackler Gallery. Known for his sublime approach to pure form, space, and materials since the early 1980s, Kapoor continues to examine spatial perception and the immateriality of the object through this work.
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The "Perspectives" series of contemporary Asian art resumes with "S-Curve" (2006) by internationally renowned Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor. Consisting of two sixteen-foot lengths of polished steel that are gently curved to create a continuous convex and concave wall, the work recalls the exploration of form that Kapoor most famously presented in "Cloud Gate" in Chicago`s Millennium Park. At a height of seven feet and with highly reflective surfaces, "S-Curve" engages viewers in a powerful physical and visual experience within the Sackler Gallery. Known for his sublime approach to pure form, space, and materials since the early 1980s, Kapoor continues to examine spatial perception and the immateriality of the object through this work.
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10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
1050 Independence Avenue SW National Mall - Washington D.C., DC, USA 20024
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Mazloomi. Mazloomi, who holds a doctorate in aerospace engineering, is a prolific artist, curator, and scholar. In 1981, she founded the African American Quilt Guild of Los Angeles, and then, in 1985, she founded the Women of Color Quilters Network, fulfilling the desire of isolated makers to connect and continue Black textile traditions.</p><p><br></p>" />
Clare Arni</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Perspectives--Anish-Kapoor/"/Artist/Vivek-Vilasini/D3DED5F888005E3E">Vivek Vilasini</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Perspectives--Anish-Kapoor/"/Artist/Ram-Rahman/A92E9689FAFBB985">Ram Rahman</a>, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Perspectives--Anish-Kapoor/"/Artist/Naveen-Kishore/9CEF9401536808B5">Naveen Kishore</a> focus on the performing body to confront notions of gender and cultural identity through photography, a medium that has played a complicated role in India since the nineteenth century. <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Perspectives--Anish-Kapoor/"/Artist/Jitish-Kallat/15B51C0600874D2B">Jitish Kallat</a> and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Perspectives--Anish-Kapoor/"/Artist/Rashid-Rana/44B8A174FB73ED77">Rashid Rana</a> manipulate photographic images to simultaneously assert and dissolve the portrait in jarring compositions that hover between reflections on the public being and the disquiet of the inner self.</p><p>Master print <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Perspectives--Anish-Kapoor/"/Artist/Krishna-Reddy/BEE65B56B623D3A1">artists Krishna Reddy</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Perspectives--Anish-Kapoor/"/Artist/Chitra-Ganesh/CD31565511AE5CFC">Chitra Ganesh</a>, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Perspectives--Anish-Kapoor/"/Artist/Jyoti-Bhatt/730E1BD39E47C7F5">Jyoti Bhatt</a> experiment with provocatively carved lines and vivid colors unique to printmaking. Fragmenting, morphing, and multiplying the figure, these artists incorporate various processes to explore representations of power, place, and sexuality in today’s world.</p><p><br></p>" />
artist James McNeill Whistler</a> (1834–1903) for the London home of British businessman Frederick Leyland, the room has a dramatic and complex origin story that works in the Freer Gallery of Art collection help reveal. Situated next to the Peacock Room, Ruffled Feathers offers visitors a chance to explore this room’s tangled history and the personal and global forces that shaped it through paintings, works on paper, and decorative art.</p><p>Situating audiences in London during the room’s formation between 1874 and 1876, Ruffled Feathers offers a unique opportunity to see intimate and formal portraits Whistler created of the Leyland family, chronicling the personal relationships that flourished and fractured over the course of the room’s creation. Additional paintings and examples of design from Leyland’s home help audiences understand how Whistler incorporated motifs sourced from Asia throughout his designs and rethought his own approach to art and art-making. Whistler’s relationships—with his patron, with the art market, and with the world at large—offer visitors multiple ways to consider one of Washington, DC’s, most iconic spaces and to more fully immerse themselves in Whistler’s most complete artistic interior.</p><p><br></p>" />
