April 30, 2007
Frank Stella gets the Met rooftop for the summer
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday will open its 10,000-square-foot roof garden for the season, this year featuring the massive sculptures of New York-based abstract artist Frank Stella.
The centerpiece of "Frank Stella on the Roof" is the public debut of the large-scale "China Pavilion (in progress,)" a carbon-fiber structure fabricated for the museum's rooftop. There are other sculptures there, including two more oversized pieces -- "adjoeman" (which mean "showing off" or "decorative" in Balinese) and "memantra" (which means the "verbal form of mantra, a prayer or incantation") -- both made of some of the same stuff used to build stealth bombers, stainless steel and carbon fiber.
 The "adjoeman" sculpture is set on a round track and includes a sail, which will allow it to move with the breeze.
In addition to the rooftop exhibit, there is a complementary one-room indoor exhibition, "Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture," which is dominated by "The Ship," another building-in-progress work, this one made of fiberglass and carbon fiber. The room is rounded out by his paintings, architecture models for unrealized projects and other sculptures big and small.
The rooftop exhibit will be open, weather permitting, through October 28. (Sandwiches and beverages -- including beer and wine -- are served on the roof.) The indoor Stella exhibition is on display only through July 29.
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April 30, 2007 02:36 PM in Architecture, Drinkology, Museums, Sightsology, Upper East Side
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