CCMHT August Events
John Pawson: Lecture and Book SigningWhen:August 21, 2010 at 8pmWhere:Wellfleet Public Library, Tickets $10The famed British minimalist architect will discuss his projects, past and future, and sign copies of his current publication John Pawson, Works, Phaidon Press. CCMHT is pleased to welcome him as an artist in residence in the Kugel/Gips house.See John Pawson's work at http://www.johnpawson.com/Tickets available from cyndi@ccmht.org
2010 Modern House Tour: SOLD OUTWhen:August 22, 2010 at 11amWhere:Castle Hill Center for the ArtsIf you have tickets, please meet at Castle Hill's Truro Main Building at 11am for a short lecture and carpooling.*See below for September Bike Tour.
Modern House Film NightWhen:Tuesday, August 24, 2010 from 7 - 10pmWhere:Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Tickets $8a still from Spectral Houses by Malachai Connolly.
An Interview with Marcel BreuerThe premiere presentation of a recently discovered film made by Howard Wise at his Breuer designed home in Welllfeet.
Ericka Beckman and Tara Merenda Nelson: A Collection of Short FilmsBeckman (whose work recently appeared in the Pictures Generationshow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Nelson were 2010 artists-in-residence at the newly restored Kugel/Gips House.
Spectral Houses: A Film by Malachi ConnolyA documentary examining the interplay between the Outer Cape's modern houses, their owners, the community, the National Park and the landscape. Edited by Emily Rosdeitcher. Cinematographer, Octavio Warnock Graham.A panel discussion with the filmmakers will follow. Please contact the CCMHT at 508.349.7616 or cyndi@ccmht.org.
Gathering: Art about Architecture When:On view through August 29, 2010Where:Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM)John Hejduk — Serge Chermayeff — John M. Johansen — Angela Dufresne — Peter Hutchinson — Michelle WeinburgSerge Ivan Chermayeff, Colorscape #11, 1979oil on canvas, 49.75 x 37.5" Estate of the Artist Curator Bailey Bob Bailey has drawn together compelling works that explore the intersections between art and architecture. Gathering presents artworks by three esteemed architects and architectural pieces by three contemporary artists. The resulting exhibition yields a thought-provoking crossroads, where creative formats intermingle and boundaries bend.
Gyorgy Kepes, PaintingsWhen:On view through August 21, 2010Where:Castle Hill Center for the Arts. Gallery hours 10am – 4pm, Monday – Friday. Admission is free. Kepes' vivid, symbolic paintings are passed down like talismans, often found in the homes of movers and shakers from the modern era. The rarely viewed works in Paintings are on loan from the Kepes family.Gyorgy Kepes, Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist emigrated to the U.S. in 1937. He taught design at the New Bauhaus in Chicago and in 1967 founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, where he taught until his retirement in 1974. Kepes was an intimate friend and collaborator to Bauhaus veteran Laslo Moholy-Nagy, as well as architects Serge Chermayeff and Marcel Breuer. Breuer designed Kepes a house, identical to his own, in Wellfleet in 1948, where his family still lives.
Also........Modern House Bike TourSeptember 26, Tour starts at 2pm, Tickets $40This bicycle tour of modern houses in the National Seashore will include an illustrated lecture and bucolic ride to view four houses, concluding at the Hatch Cottage with a beach party. Tickets available from cyndi@ccmht.orgThese events are sponsored in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.
