Visit The Aldrich This Summer and Enter the Katonah Museum Free
July 1, 2006Beginning on July 1 and continuing through September 3, visitors to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will receive a pass for free admission to the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, New York, and vice versa. This reciprocal offer aims to encourage attendance and to raise awareness of the exceptional exhibitions and programs at each institution this summer.
On view at The Aldrich is a major exhibition of recent work by renowned German painter Anselm Kiefer. During the Kiefer exhibition The Aldrich has arranged for free round-trip bus service from the Katonah Metro North train station, which is an easy walk from the Katonah Museum, on Saturdays and Sundays.
Other exhibitions at The Aldrich this summer include Land Mine, featuring the work of Laleh Khorramian, Wangechi Mutu, and Michael Zansky. These three artists are united by their use of landscape as a vehicle for addressing war, politics, and human suffering. Placed outside the Museum is Drawing Rocks, an interactive installation of stone sculptures by Emil Lukas, which invites children to do crayon rubbings. Until August 6 visitors can see Homecoming, an exhibition conceived to champion the work of three artists, Sarah Bostwick, Damian Loeb, and Doug Wada, who grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and return to both a town and an institution which played a formative role in their lives. Also on view until August 6 is Tom Burckhardt's FULL STOP, a full-scale replica of an artist's studio made entirely of cardboard and black paint.
This is a great opportunity for people familiar with The Aldrich to experience the Katonah Museum of Art. There, the notion of virtual travel is explored in two companion exhibitions this summer. Andromeda Hotel: The Art of Joseph Cornell takes viewers on a magical journey into the fantastic worlds Joseph Cornell assembled in 45 collages, objects, chests, and cabinets created between the 1930s and 1960s. Case Studies: Art in a Valise explores a diverse group of suitcase-based works created by artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Beuys to Tony Oursler and Erika Wanenmacher. Additionally, Michael Steiner's sculpture will grace the Museum's Sculpture Garden and Diane Tuft's installation Internal Reflection, an abstract environment of ice-like structures, is in the Pryor Gallery. Original drawings from the book The Train of States, by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Peter Sis, are on view in the Children's Learning Center.
