Pulitzer Arts Foundation

“It’s a duet between me and Scott Burton, conceptually, but also between my dancers and his sculptures, or my dancers with themselves.” – Brendan Fernandes

This Saturday, November 9, join artist Brendan Fernandes and Joanna Dee Das, Associate Professor of Dance at WashU, for a special conversation about Fernandes’ work on view at the Pulitzer.

Learn more about Fernandes’ and Scott Burton’s work from St. Louis Public Radio here: https://www.stlpr.org/arts/2024-11-06/dancing-through-a-museum-an-artist-duets-with-a-departed-influence-at-the-pulitzer

📸: Virginia Harold

Join us ✨tonight✨ from 6–8pm for a public discussion and networking event dedicated to promoting the next generation of artists, art professionals, and cultural leaders. Enjoy light refreshments and mix and mingle with other emerging professionals in the arts!

Learn more here: https://pulitzerarts.org/events/emerging-professionals-in-the-arts-conversations-and-cocktails/

📸: Virginia Harold

This Saturday, November 2, join Assistant Curator Heather Alexis Smith and Genny Cortinovis, Associate Curator at Saint Louis Art Museum, for a design-focused tour of Scott Burton: Shape Shift. The pair will discuss Burton’s “furniture sculptures” and his use of design history and decorative arts for inspiration.

Learn more and register here: https://pulitzerarts.org/events/design-and-decorative-arts-tour-scott-burton-and-his-muses/

📸: Virginia Harold

Calling all emerging arts professionals! Join the Pulitzer and Midwest Artist Project Services - MAPS this Friday, November 1, for a public discussion and networking event dedicated to promoting the next generation of artists, art professionals, and cultural leaders.

Learn more here: https://pulitzerarts.org/events/emerging-professionals-in-the-arts-conversations-and-cocktails/

📸: Virginia Harold

Thank you to Christopher Chablé and to everyone who came out to move their bodies with art at the Pulitzer! 🎶🇧🇷💕

📸: Virginia Harold

Where art and nature meet. 🍂🍁

📸: Virginia Harold

Today at 1pm, join us for a performance lecture by Gordon Hall, exploring the theme of waiting in Scott Burton’s work and beyond. Hall, Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Vassar College, is a sculptor, performance-maker and writer based in New York

Learn moA L E Xulitzerarts.org/events/performance-lecture-1-2-pm-by-gordon-hall/

📸: Alex Vanderheyden

a wonderful evening with Yosh Dafney and his stunning collection! It was a truly inspiring night of fashion, art, and community. ✨🪡🥂

Image Credit:
1, 3, 6 ) Photography by Virginia Harold
2 ) Susan Sherman
4 ) Michael Fears
5 ) Artemas Quibble
7 ) Câmi Thomas
8 ) Tsunami
9 ) Mason Ellis

Scott Burton's Onyx Table glows warmly at the Pulitzer. Made of polished stone sliced thin and lit from the interior with orange and pink fluorescent bulbs, Burton appreciated the material's "primeval chaos" with its colorful veins and gradients.

📸: Virginia Harold

Artwork by Scott Burton, © 2024 Estate of Scott Burton/ Artists Rights Society (ARS)

On Saturday, October 19, join New York-based artist Gordon Hall for 1-2pm, a lecture-performance that engages the sculptures in Scott Burton: Shape Shift and the museum’s architecture, transforming the space into a dynamic stage.

Through a blend of text, projection, and movement, we will explore the often-overlooked experience of waiting—a state where time becomes palpable through inactivity. Situated somewhere between an academic lecture and a dance, Hall engages Burton’s practice and legacy, highlighting the potential of focusing on passive objects of support.

Learn more here: https://pulitzerarts.org/events/performance-lecture-1-2-pm-by-gordon-hall/

Photography by Brittni Mosby.

"In the 1970s, Burton made a bronze cast of an old-fashioned wooden chair he’d found. It weighed about 250 pounds. The chair was placed on the street outside a gallery, and Burton and some friends amused themselves by watching people trying, unsuccessfully, to take it away. “Sculpture as agent of performance” is how Burton came to think of the event." - The Wall Street Journal

Scott Burton's "Bronze Chair" is on view now at the Pulitzer.

📸: Virginia Harold

Artwork by Scott Burton, © 2024 Estate of Scott Burton/ Artists Rights Society (ARS)

The 21st season of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra: Live at the Pulitzer kicks off on November 12! Experience innovative, contemporary chamber music curated in response to the art on view in the Pulitzer’s superb architecture.

The November concert is sold out, but tickets are still available for select dates. Learn more from St. Louis Magazine here: https://www.stlmag.com/culture/music/st-louis-symphony-orchestra-s-live-at-the-pulitzer-series-re/

📸: Virginia Harold

Join Pulitzer curator Tamara Schenkenberg for a special STL Design Week tour of our current exhibition, Scott Burton: Shape Shift, tomorrow at 1pm. On this tour, we will explore the sculptures, photographs, drawings, and performances that shed light on the artist’s contributions to conceptual, public, and q***r art. You’ll also learn about Burton’s roles as a curator, art critic, and designer.

The Pulitzer is proud to sponsor this year's St. Louis Design Week!

Learn more and register now: www.stl.org/sched

📸: Virginia Harold

Richard Serra, who passed away in March of this year, was an American artist widely regarded as one of the greatest sculptors of his generation. Emily Rauh Pulitzer shares a tribute to Serra and his lasting impact both personally and at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

Explore the story on The Brooklyn Rail here: https://brooklynrail.org/tribute/a-tribute-to-richard-serra/emily-rauh-pulitzer/

Image Credit:

1) Richard Serra, Pulitzer Piece: Stepped Elevation, 1970-71/. Weathering steel, three plates: 60 inches x 40 feet 3 inches x 2 inches, 60 inches x 45 feet 11 inches x 2 inches, 60 inches x 50 feet 7 inches x 2 inches; installed in an area of 450 x 450 feet. Collection of Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Artwork © Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Harry Shunk.

2) Richard Serra, Joe, 1999. Weathering steel, torqued spiral, overall: 13 feet 6 inches x 48 feet 2 inches x 44 feet 10 inches; plates: 2 inches thick. Installation in the courtyard of The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri. The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri, 1999. Artwork © Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Dirk Reinartz.

"Oh, yes, sitting, the great leveler. From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn’t enjoy a good sit?"– Mr. Burns, The Simpsons

"The late Scott Burton would agree. Much of the artist’s practice engaged with chairs and sitting, and a new show at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation aims to introduce the underknown visionary—who died at 50 from an AIDS-related illness—to the wider world."

Thank you for covering our current exhibition of Burton's work, Observer! Read more at the link below. 📰🪑🎨

https://observer.com/2024/09/art-review-scott-burton-shape-shift-is-on-view-at-the-pulitzer-arts-foundation/

Photo by Alise O'Brien Photography. © 2024 Estate of Scott Burton/ Artists Rights Society (ARS)