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Welcome back to Wall Power’s Inner Circle. I’m Marion
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The Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, is a small but influential institution with a proud distinction as one of the first museums of contemporary art in the United States. It was founded in 1964 by fashion designer turned art collector Lawrence Aldrich. Instead of creating a private institution, Aldrich sold his personal collection to fund a non-collecting museum that focused on “providing first significant opportunities to
emerging or under-recognized artists,” as director Cybele Maylone put it. This month, the museum inaugurated its decennial: a survey of artists who live and work in the state that is meant to recur every 10 years. In tonight’s issue, I asked Maylone how the idea came together.
Up top, artist Alma Allen is, again, accusing a publicist of interfering with his Venice Biennale exhibition. And the Independent releases some numbers from its most recent fair as
it prepares to debut at the Breuer Building in September.
Also mentioned in this issue: Michael Joo, Amy Smith-Stewart, Lucy Lippard, Karla Knight, Jasper Johns, Titus Kaphar, Kristy Hughes, Raphael Soyer, Ethel Schwabacher, Al Held, Rosalyn Drexler, Lorraine O’Grady,
Elaine de Kooning, and many more.
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The Independent’s May results: The folks from the Independent have released some figures from their May fair on Manhattan’s Pier 36. Of the 73 participating galleries, 56 reported sales of 265 works totaling $3.5 million. The majority of those sales were made to...
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The director of Ridgefield’s overachieving contemporary art museum is turning her
institution’s gaze to Connecticut artists, making a case for the Constitution State as something more than the land of finance bros and old WASPs.
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Cybele Maylone, the executive director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, acknowledges that a show focused on her state’s artists might be a tough sell. “Some people may hear the idea of an exhibition of art-making in Connecticut and immediately want to fall asleep,” Maylone told me. But that’s exactly what her museum now plans to do at least once a decade, and they’re kicking off this decennial project with I Am What Is Around Me—the first iteration of the concept, named for a line by Connecticut poet Wallace
Stevens.
It helps, Maylone said, that her chief curator brought “a real excitement about the possibility of discovery that a show like this could possess, and a deep connection to who we are as an institution.” And even if Connecticut is underrated as an art community compared to, say, Maine or Long Island, it has great natural beauty that’s drawn generations of artists, including the earliest impressionists. It also boasts a strong infrastructure to nurture and promote them—not
just the Aldrich itself, but...
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