![Newly Restored Destruction: Menil Installs John Chamberlain Anniversary Show](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118104934im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/chamberlain-menil-150x150.png)
Newly Restored Destruction: Menil Installs John Chamberlain Anniversary Show
The Menil is topping off it’s 25th Anniversary with an installation of four major John Chamberlain sculptures in its foyer, reiterating its inaugural show of 1987. But they’ve been busy: the pieces have been restored (if that’s a word you ought to use for crushed auto parts) through a grant from Bank of America Art [...]
![Chamberlain Building Decrepit: Chinati Issues Plea for Fix-It Dollars](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118104934im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/chamberlain-bldg-150x150.jpg)
Chamberlain Building Decrepit: Chinati Issues Plea for Fix-It Dollars
According to an email broadcast last week, The Chinati Foundation’s John Chamberlain Building needs roof repairs, the adobe and concrete walls need patching, and the Donald Judd-designed wooden doors and windows are rotting and need to be replaced. The Foundation is looking for year-end donations to help pay for the fixes, calling the former wool [...]
![Menil Gets Bank of America Grant to Restore Chamberlain Sculptures](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118104934im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/chamberlain-150x150.png)
Menil Gets Bank of America Grant to Restore Chamberlain Sculptures
The Menil Collection has been granted an unspecified, but “generous” amount of money to restore 12 sculptures by the American artist John Chamberlain through Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project. The Menil is one of four domestic projects awarded a grant. Chamberlain’s steel works “possess inherent vulnerabilities”, from flaking paint to rust, and grime in [...]
![Car-avaggio of American Sculpture John Chamberlain is dead at 84](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118104934im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Picture-11-150x150.png)
Car-avaggio of American Sculpture John Chamberlain is dead at 84
The Master of Mashed Metal, the Car-avaggio of Crushed Steel, relentlessly lowbrow and matter of fact about his work despite years of international acclaim, John Chamberlain has died at his home in Shelter Island, NY at age 84. Chamberlain took Duchamp’s anything-can-be-art promise literally, fusing pop art’s agressive contemporariness, Duchampian readymadiness, and poetic abstract expressioniness [...]