New Monuments TV welcomes you to today’s coverage of match play between Team Annenberg and Team Rockefeller. I am your host, the Golf Widow, joined by my old pal and yours.

The Old Man.

He will cover the action at Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, New York.

Behind me, a view straight out of the Hudson River School.

While I have the mic at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California. Behind me, the San Jacinto Mountains, as seen on local easels. Sponsoring today’s exhibition is New Monuments Golf Club: «Not Your Grandfather’s Golf Club!»

«Nor Your Grandmother’s!»

What’s at stake, Old Man?

Our viewers can see that I am standing by the 1st green and 8th tee with Henry Moore’s «Knife Edge Two Piece».

Beside me, they may detect Yaacov Agam’s «Square Waves».

Technically, out of bounds, because it is not on, or visible from, the golf course.

Well spotted, my friend. Let’s begin our walk, evaluating as we go the art found in our respective «galleries», if you will. In match play, the winner is the team ahead by more holes than remain to be played.

If I were a betting man, I could characterize Team Rockefeller as the prohibitive favorite. Will either side exercise its right to a score adjusted by a handicap? The Rockefellers were in the art game longer than the Annenbergs. We don’t want the broadcast to finish early.

According to reports from the locker rooms, the curators decline to factor in handicaps.

Let’s begin then. As both teams are at home, we will flip a coin to decide who goes first as the guest and who presents last.

Hole 1
Sunnylands: «Birds of Welcome» (1971, Art Price, Canadian), «Cranes» (Meiji era, unknown artist/s, Japanese), «Mausoleum» (2001, Alfred H. Cook, American).

Kykuit: «Gazebo» (1968, Wendy Taylor, English), «Knife Edge Two Piece» (1966, Henry Moore, English), «Vertical Blue Hieroglyph» (1969, Jean Dubuffet, French).

Hole 2
Sunnylands: «Palms» (1966, Dwight D. Eisenhower, American), «Chinese Pavilion» (1976, Harry Saunders, American).

Kykuit: «Large Spiny» (1966, Alexander Calder, American), «Lippincott II» (1966, James Rosati, American), «Barbara» (1972, Benni Efrat, Israeli), «Akapotic Rose» (1965, Eduardo Paolozzi, British).

Hole 3
Sunnylands: «Delos Bench» (1979, unknown artist)

Kykuit: «Night» (1944, Aristede Maillol, French), «Horse» (1951, Marino Marini, Italian), «Wandering Rocks» (1967, Tony Smith, American).

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The Old Man, Kykuit: August 2024, Sunnylands: May 2017.