Fisher Landau Center for Art

03/30/2023

Rest In Paradise

A jewelry heist in her Manhattan home spurred her to start one of America’s premier collections of contemporary art, shown for years in a converted factory in Queens.

05/20/2020

Susan Rothenberg passed away yesterday at the age of 75.
There are over 20 of her paintings and prints in the collection along with this editioned "Fish Sculpture" (1987) in collaboration with ULAE. The casting was made from a wax & sea shell maquette molded in aluminum powder infused epoxy resin, then mounted on a granite block.

04/29/2020

Very sad to hear that art historian, critic & curator Germano Celant has passed away due to complications from the coronavirus. He borrowed "City of Man" from the collection for the current retrospective of Richard Artschwager's artwork at MART & Guggenheim Bilbao citing it's "major contribution to the exhibition for it's historical relevance..."

04/17/2020

Artforum announced the passing of Markus Raetz this week at the age of 79:
https://www.artforum.com/news/markus-raetz-1941-2020-82756
His sculpture "Metamorphoses II" became part of the collection in 1993 & depicts both a rabbit and man with a hat depending on your viewpoint.

02/14/2020

Installation view at LX Gallery from "On the Turn: Selections from the collection of Emily Fisher Landau" featuring artwork by Mark Tansey, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Mapplethorpe, April Gornik, Robert Longo, Louise Bourgeois, Cy Twombly, Anna Mendieta, Alexander Calder & Nancy Dwyer.
https://www.lxartsnyc.com/exhibitions/

02/07/2020

Installation views from "Richard Artschwager" at MART Rovereto in Italy curated by Germano Celant. "City of Man", 1981 from the collection is featured (artwork on the left):
http://www.mart.trento.it/artschwager-en
The exhibition will travel to the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum opening on February 28th.

01/30/2020

Two artworks from the Collection were recently featured at Fergus McCaffrey's presentation of "Jasper Johns: Usuyuki" in his Tokyo gallery space. The titles of the acrylic collage & silkscreen artworks translate to "light falling snow" and are exemplary of Johns' investigations into impermanence.

10/08/2019

03/22/2019

Francesco Clemente's "House of Cards" was included in his solo exhibition at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, featuring artworks from 1978-2018.

11/30/2018

"Because I love the language. Words have temperatures to me. When they reach a certain point and become hot words, then they appeal to me." Ed Ruscha from a 1985 interview with Jana Sterbak in Real Life Magazine.

"Securing the Last Letter (BOSS)", 1964 is included in Craig Starr Gallery's current exhibition: "Ed Ruscha: Ace Radio Honk Boss", on view through January 26th, 2019.

10/25/2018

2 artworks from the collection were included in the Whitney Museum's presentation of "David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake At Night". The exhibition travels to Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid during the Spring of 2019, followed by the Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Due Jean in Luxembourg City through February, 2020.

David Wojnarowicz "Das Reingold: New York Schism", 1987.
Peter Hujar "David Lighting Up", 1985.

10/14/2018

Pablo Picasso's "Femme à la montre" has been on loan to the Perez Art Museum in Miami: “We are grateful for the opportunity from lender Emily Fisher Landau to present this important painting."
Franklin Sirmans, Director of PAMM.
http://artdaily.com/news/105885/P-rez-Art-Museum-Miami-presents-Femme--agrave--la-montre--a-1932-masterpiece-by-Pablo-Picasso #.W8OcM1IpDB