Fall Update
Breuer House Progress
It’s been an exciting summer. We’ve had a great response to our campaign to purchase/preserve the Breuer House and after three short months we are approaching $750,000 in donations and pledges toward our $2.4 million goal. Almost all of these contributions have come from individuals and families who want to see the site, house and the critical contents conserved and used for programs benefitting artists, architects, students and the public. In addition to continuing our discussions with individual and family donors, we are now looking to foundations/institutions for support, with hopes that we can diminish or remove the need for a mortgage, which would greatly increase our freedom to expand programming. A heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given so far, and we encourage anyone interested in the success of this project to reach out.
For some recent press coverage, check out:
NPR (WCAI), New York Times, The Architect’s Newspaper, Dezeen
For more information or to make a donation go to Save the Breuer House.
Thank you.
2023 Artist/Scholars are Here
For our 2023 fall residency, poet MÓNICA de la TORRE (b. Mexico City, lives/works in New York) has invited a group of collaborators to meet her for 2 weeks in October, living and working in the Cape Cod Modern House Trust’s 4 houses. Mónica, GABRIELA JAUREGUI, writer, translator, and editor (b. Mexico City, lives/works in San Mateo Acatitlán), and LAUREANA TOLEDO, artist (b. Ixtepec, Oaxaca, lives/works in Mexico City), will revive and expand a project begun in 2004, although the three have never been able to converge in the same place until now. They are joined by JUAN CARLOS CANO (b., lives/works in Mexico City) a writer, architect, professor, and book publisher, and ALEXANDER PROVAN the editor of Triple Canopy and a contributing editor of Bidoun. The group will be working and being inspired together as well as independently. This marks the fifth iteration of CCMHT’s curator-led residency. For past programs see our RESIDENCY page at https://ccmht.org.
For more information on their work:
Mónica de la Torre https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/monica-de-la-torre Gabriela Jauregui https://gabrielajauregui.net Laureana Toledo https://bombmagazine.org/articles/laureana-toledo/ Mónica de la Torre, Gabriela Jauregui, Laureana Toledo collaboration http://www.elem.mx/obra/datos/230156 Juan Carlos Cano https://www.canovera.com Alexander Provan https://www.alexanderprovan.com/sample-page/
Open house at Kugel/Gips, Sunday Oct 29th, 11 - 3pm
Open House at the Kugel/Gips House. Visit this modern house designed by Charlie Zehnder in 1970 and fully restored by the CCMHT. Partly inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, the house hovers over Northeast Pond.
Rain or shine. Parking on site. No reservations necessary and admission is free.
For more info visit our Tour and Updates page
Interthinking Art + Science
A documentary film on the work of Gyorgy Kepes by Márton Orosz
Oct. 21, 2023, 7:00 pm. Wiesner Building, MIT E15, 20 Ames Street Cambridge, MA
Can technology save us from technology itself? “Can prosthetics be used to emulate the pageantry of nature and provide a viable alternative for building a sustainable world? With the scientist’s brain, the poet’s heart and the painter’s eye”—this was the proverb of the Hungarian-American artist, educator, and impresario György Kepes, a forgotten precursor of media art. Kepes was among the first who used the term “visual culture” as an independent research subject in a contemporary sense. Marcel Breuer built a house for the Kepes family in Wellfleet simultaneously with his own, and both houses were artistic and social hubs for the modernists of the Outer Cape.
Márton Orosz’s documentary film is the first comprehensive assessment of György Kepes’s animated life, which introduces him not only as a shapeshifter of modernism but also as a polymath and visionary thinker whose legacy and faith in “optical democracy” grants him a pioneering role in the history of the Art and Technology Movement.
For more information go to:
https://act.mit.edu/event/marton-orosz-gyorgy-kepes-interthinking-art-science/
For the film’s trailer go to:
https://youtu.be/sqPi3fb8VbQ