Volume 31, No. 3, Dec 2008
Umbrella News
Contributions to Umbrella Museum
John Furnival, Nat Dean, Anna Banana, Genie Shenk, Claire Isaacs, Harley Spiller, Anne Hicks Siberell, Gayle Wimmer, Klaus Postler, Susan Karpinski Gaylord, Jennifer Henderson, Ilgim Veryeri, Picasso Gaglione, Gabriel Rummonds, Chuck and Judy Goodstein, Claire Satin, R. Simonson, Clemente Padin
Umbrella News
- The cover of the New Yorker on 21 November was full of umbrellas of all those animals wanting to get on the Ark. Hilarious!
- After the G.O.P. Convention in New York, many of the items such as chairs were distributed to centers for the elderly around the city. Elderly New Yorkers also received rain ponchos and umbrellas.
- Umbrellas made the front page of the New York Times on 15 October where “umbrella” is the conversation of the day because of all the drenching rain that inundated the BigApple in October. This article was about the peddlars of cheap $3 umbrellas on the streets of New York City.
- Jurgen Mayer H.’s Metropol Parasol features mushroomlike structures in a grid formation framing a plaza, expected to be finished in 2007.
- In Robert Rauschenberg’s exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, curated by Los Angeles MOCA’s Paul Schimmel, there is a work of art made out of found objects, including an umbrella, called “The Tower.”
