Permanent Installation
Frank Gehry
Thomas Houseago
Six additional acres have been added to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The expansion features twenty-six new works including Frank Gehry’s Bear With Us (2014) and Thomas Houseago’s Striding Figure (Rome I) (2013).
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Left: Frank Gehry, Bear With Us, 2014 © Frank Gehry. Right: Thomas Houseago, Striding Figure (Rome I), 2013 © Thomas Houseago. Photos: Roman Alokhin
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Honor
Frank Gehry
Los Angeles Philharmonic 2023–24
The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s twentieth-anniversary season at the Walt Disney Concert Hall will honor Frank Gehry, who designed the iconic venue. Planned celebrations include a gala and performance in October, a collaborative staging of Wagner’s Das Rheingold in January, and additional exhibits and commissions to be announced.
Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Artwork © Frank Gehry. Photo: Adam Latham, courtesy Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Public Installation
Frank Gehry
Wishful Thinking
February 19–March 20, 2022
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
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Frank Gehry’s immersive installation Wishful Thinking (2021) is installed in BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, following its debut at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, last year. Based on a scene from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the work depicts the Mad Hatter’s tea party as a group of ten surreal figures, twice life-size. Fashioned from brilliantly painted metal, Gehry’s abstracted interpretations of Lewis Carroll’s characters surround an internally lit table, the glowing heart of the scene. Three overlapping woven steel “tapestries” of trees evoke the episode’s forest setting, while a mirror on the opposite wall implicates the viewer. The crumpled surfaces of Wishful Thinking’s figures establish a new visual connection with some of Gehry’s best-known designs. The installation is free and open to the public.
Frank Gehry, Wishful Thinking, 2021, installation view, Gagosian, Beverly Hills © Frank O. Gehry. Photo: Joshua White
Design
Frank Gehry
The Tower
Designed by Frank Gehry, The Tower, a twisting building covered with 11,000 stainless-steel panels, that serves as the centerpiece for Luma Arles, is set to open on June 26, 2021. Dedicated to providing artists with opportunities to experiment in the production and presentation of new work, the campus encompasses six historic, large-scale industrial buildings for installations, exhibitions, and artists’ residencies. The Luma Foundation was established by Maja Hoffmann in Switzerland in 2004 and focuses on the direct relations between art, culture, human rights, environmental topics, education, and research.
Frank Gehry’s The Tower, Luma Arles, France. Artwork © Frank Gehry. Photo: Adrian Deweerdt
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