Who would design the outdoor home of those future bronze statues? When would MSeum’s invisible architecture finally become visible?
And then a thrilling gust of wind from the Rockies was felt in New York’s Catskill Mountains, when another great Unknown joined the MSeum team. With pleasure and pride, MSeum is delighted to announce that Lea Sisson is MSeum’s new Madame Architect.
A lifelong Coloradoan, Sisson is a spiritual daughter of the immortal Frank Lloyd Wright: a maestra at harmonizing the built and natural environments to create sublime symphonies of space.
More than just a trusty provider of cinematherapy, Turner Classic Movies is also an easily accessible chronicle of art history. Exhibit A: the day I passed by the TV and noticed a dapper gentleman, circa 1950s, speaking from his office at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—a Technicolor talking head, surrounded by framed artworks. He was Dore Schary, then head of MGM, and the family portraits behind him—of his three young children—were all created by Mrs. Schary, the artist Miriam Svet. Grabbing my iPhone, I pinch-zoomed the paintings; one depicts the entire Schary family, with the coverall clad artist standing by her easel, a latter-day Velazquez posed within her composition. (The coveralls, I later learned from her daughter, were made for Svet by the MGM costume department.)
