Martin Puryear’s sculptures, which were exhibited in a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 2007, represent a striking departure from the overly ironic, content-driven, late mannerist oeuvre one has come to expect from an art-world luminary.
In a career spanning more than half a century, Milton Glaser has been responsible for some of the most memorable logos, labels, posters, and magazine illustrations of modern times. Some have become classics: the I love NY logo; the design of New York magazine—Glaser co-founded the publication in 1968 and was design director until 1977; the redesign of Paris Match; and the Bob Dylan poster with the silhouette and swirling brilliantly colored hair (the image was inspired by a Marcel Duchamp cut-out and Islamic painting).
“Sentimentoh, OK, U.S.A.,” the title of a poem by Sean Sullivan, is a place of unsettled memory, stalled time, and dreamlike spectacle, a ghost town where pianos go unplayed, faith resides in a numbers game, and “all the things you hold most dear weigh almost nothing.”