Gallery Talk: / Charles Ray and Michael Fried on David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy Thurs, Jan 5, 2012, 7 pm

Gallery Talk:
Charles Ray and Michael Fried on David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy

Thurs, Jan 5, 2012
7 pm

A steel sculpture of angular shapes.
A steel sculpture of angular shapes.

David Smith, Blue Construction, 1938. Sheet steel with baked-enamel finish, 36 1/4 x 28 1/2 x 30 in. (92.1 x 72.4 x 76.2 cm). The Estate of David Smith; courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. © The Estate of David Smith/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Photograph courtesy The Estate of David Smith

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Art Historian Michael Fried joins contemporary sculptor Charles Ray for a special walk through of David Smith: Cubes and AnarchyFried and Ray, whose work has been featured in four Whitney biennials, will consider modernist abstract sculpture and its lasting influence on contemporary art.

$8 general admission; $6 senior citizens and students; free for members.


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