This spring, the National Academy of Design hosted “Modern and Reformed: Carlos Jimenez + Patricio del Real in Conversation,” an event highlighting the work of Houston-based architect Carlos Jiménez—a recent inductee to the Academy—within the larger Sites of Impermanence exhibition. The show, which opened in February at the Academy’s newest space in Manhattan, features art and architectural works by members of the most recent cohort of National Academicians. Joining Jiménez are New York–based architect Richard Gluckman and artists Alice Adams, Sanford Biggers, Willie Cole, Torkwase Dyson, Mel Kendrick, and Sarah Oppenheimer. While broad in artistic medium and style, the 2023 inductees are all are linked through, what the Academy terms, an “understanding of formal interventions and the mutability of space.”
The National Academy of Design is a fitting locale for the exhibition’s theme considering its itinerant status over the last few years. The Academy, founded in 1863, sold its longtime home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 2019, and temporarily based itself in the National Arts Club, in Gramercy Park, before leasing a new home on West 26th Street in Chelsea last year. The 7,800-square-foot administrative and curatorial space was designed by local firm Bade Stageberg Cox.
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