The Phillips collection and The East Building of the National Gallery got most of my attention during a four day visit to Washington D.C. Some of my favorite artists including Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko were well represented. The Dwan Gallery show at the National Gallery was particularly satisfying. The little Jake Berthot (below) was at the Phillips.
Laib, Wolfgang, Wax Room: Wohin bist Du gegangen – wohin gehst Du? (Where have you gone – where are you going?), 2013, Beeswax, light bulb (Phillips Collection)
I had a great trip to Washington, D.C. in early December, 2016. The East Building of the National Gallery of Art is reopened and the new tower that houses the Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman paintings is impressive. Other artists and shows on view that captured my attention include, Anselm Kiefer and his lead airplane, Robert Motherwell, Alfred Jensen, Mel Bochner, Cy Twombly and Barbara Kruger. The Dwan Gallery show was a great opportunity to see the Spiral Jetty drawings of Robert Smithson along with the giant wall mounted photographs. Isamu Naguchi was at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and I was able to see one of my favorite sculptures of his: Sky Mirror. Jake Berthot was at the Phillips along with Arlene Shechet's Intersections: From Here On Now and Whitfield Lovell's The Kin Series and Related Works.