Douglas C. McGILL
4 articles
NEW MIDTOWN BRANCH FOR WHITNEY
By Douglas C. McGILL
The lobby of a new corporate skyscraper in midtown will soon become the home for a Whitney Museum of American Art branch, making it the latest and largest addition to an extensive collaboration between a major art museum and the corporate world. The skyscraper - a 54-story, $200 million structure designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes - is the new headquarters of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, at Seventh Avenue between 51st and 52d Streets. Adjoining the skyscraper's lobby will be two galleries, to open Feb. 13, in which the Whitney will present temporary exhibitions of painting and sculpture. The new galleries will join three other branches in corporate lobbies that the Whitney will operate by this spring.
New York Times • Arts • page 21 • 972 words
ART PEOPLE
By Douglas C. McGILL
IN a Quonset hut studio in upstate New York, Bob Schuler has spent the last five years sculpting and painting a series of granite blocks. The blocks, about a foot and a half square, are carved and painted with images, phrases and thoughts that make up an autobiography-fantasy. When he is finished, Mr. Schuler plans to drop them in the ocean at 100 mile intervals around the world. His hope is that they will settle deep in the mud floor and eventually become permanently encased in sedimentary rock.
New York Times • Arts • page 27 • 1,117 words