Records of the Department of Public Information. Circular relief with Medusa head at center Library division & collection with this item: LIBRARY DIVISION The Miriam and Ira D. The exhibition and its associated Artist-in-Residence program are made possible by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund.īrooklyn Museum Archives. It features a central conical or.A10.00 to A20.
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The project, twenty-seventh in a series of Grand Lobby projects, was organized by Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, with the assistance of Laura Deer Moore, curatorial intern funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. This exotic oddball is part of the group of succulents native to South Africa referred to as medusoid euphorbias. QUICK IDENTIFICATION Wiry stems A few short, narrow leaves Long awns that emerge from the seed head and point outward and upward Bright yellow-green color. Perseus set out with the aid of the gods, who provided him with. These pieces led him to performance work and later to the large-scale installations that currently occupy most of his time. A dishonorable king demanded that he bring him an impossible gift: the head of Medusa. Soon, however, he switched to art and began making sculptural pieces demanding human interaction. Upon returning to the United States, he attended Pomona College and later chose to study architecture at the University of California at Irvine. The miniature freight cars of the trains are filled with earth, rocks, and gravel, and, along with the twisting and winding tracks, reminds one of the snakes encircling Medusa’s head.īorn in Boston in 1946, Burden spent his teens mostly in Europe, where his father worked as an engineer for the Rockefeller Foundation.
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The dark, scarred, expressively articulated surface of the work is full of woundlike grooves and encircled by seemingly endless railroad tracks and toy trains.
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The title refers to the Greek myth of the serpent-haired Gorgon Medusa, at whose sight mortals were turned to stone. An enormous spheroid fourteen feet in diameter and weighing over five tons, the work will be suspended from the ceiling of the Grand Lobby, located on the first floor. On average, a medusa head on 1stDibs sells for 750, while they’re typically 125 on the low end and 35,108 for the highest priced versions of this item. 330.Ĭhris Burden, one of America’s most influential installation artists, will present his latest monumental project, Medusa’s Head, at The Brooklyn Museum June 28 to September 1, 1991. Please RSVP to Sally Williams or Michelle Menendez in the Public Information office, 71, ext. The mythological figure of Medusa with her mass of hair. Special motorcoach service will be available to the Museum from Manhattan, leaving at 6:00 p.m. Sicilian Artistic Ceramics Medusa Head made of ceramic and hand decorated by Sicilian artisans. Find top songs and albums by Medusa Head including Ferragamo, Bailandome (feat.
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PRESS PREVIEW: Thursday, June 27, 1991, 6:00 -9:00 p.m. Listen to music by Medusa Head on Apple Music.