Westward Ho: Four days, four museums and a journey back to the future
This east-coast curator headed west this month, to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art to represent c2 at the opening of MetaModern.
The show looked strong and fresh in this second stop on the tour, thanks to curator Emily Stamey’s vision and the SMoCA installation team.
photo credit: Peter Bugg
photo credit: Peter Bugg
On Friday I made the rounds to the museums in the area. The plantings at the Phoenix Art Museum and the Arizona State University Museum were so exotic to this New Englander.
The stunning exterior of the newly opened Museum of the West, designed by Studio MA.
Just an hour north of Phoenix, at the end of dirt road, Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti carries on – back to the future, which was 1970, when all things seemed possible.
Other highpoints of the journey….
Soleri’s pedestrian bridge back in Scottsdale.
The SkySpace by James Turrell at SMoCA.
And the Valley Ho Hotel, designed in 1956 by Edward L. Varney, where Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood held their wedding reception the next year.
-judy
