{"id":7186,"date":"2017-12-27T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2017-12-22T15:03:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:03:57","slug":"john-mason-at-albertz-benda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/john-mason-at-albertz-benda\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mason at Albertz Benda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like models strutting down a catwalk, a row of abstracted ceramic figures by nonagenarian LA artist John Mason exude confidence and style. Recalling Duchamp\u2019s Nude Descending a Staircase, Brancusi\u2019s sculpture and Lygia Clark\u2019s bichos they combine Cubist form, Futurist dynamism with a suggestion of moveability often alien to ceramics. (On view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzbenda.com\/exhibitions\/upcoming\/john-mason-sculpture\/1\">Albertz Benda Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea through Jan 13<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7187\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7187\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7187\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7187\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/john_mason-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mason, Figure, Spring Green, ceramic, 63 x 24 x 21 inches, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like models strutting down a catwalk, a row of abstracted ceramic figures by nonagenarian LA artist John Mason exude confidence and style. Recalling Duchamp\u2019s Nude Descending a Staircase, Brancusi\u2019s sculpture and Lygia Clark\u2019s bichos they combine Cubist form, Futurist dynamism with a suggestion of moveability often alien to ceramics. (On view at Albertz Benda Gallery &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/john-mason-at-albertz-benda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Mason at Albertz Benda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[1420,6836,8,1215,117,3455,13,7717,3033,10,7718,16],"class_list":["post-7186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-abstract","tag-albertz-benda","tag-art","tag-ceramic","tag-chelsea","tag-figure","tag-gallery","tag-john-mason","tag-representational","tag-sculpture","tag-spring-green","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1RU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7188,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}