Where High Gets Low.
I have an interview over at WNYC with art critic Ken Johnson about his new book, Are You Experienced? which chronicles the influence of 1960s drug culture on the last half century’s worth of art. Also included: tips on the best New York museum to be stoned in. (Image of the painting Rabbit, by Judith Linhares, featured in the book, comes courtesy of Prestel.)
Leviathan, 2011, by Anish Kapoor, at the Grand Palais, through June 23. (Photos by Vincent Desjardins. With a hat tip to Yvonne Connasse.)
I am currently cultivating a healthy obsession with crazy works of public art in Peru. (See my earlier post here.) Which is why I was excited to hear about the work of Peruvian-born photographer Pablo Hare, who has a whole series devoted to some of the most sublime/absurd monuments you have ever laid your eyes on. From top to bottom: a statue of a puma, a tribute to the maca (a type of tuber) in Junín, and a contemporary rendering of the Lord of Sipán, a Moche figure found entombed on the North Coast of Peru (where my family hails from). Hare has captured some absolutely sublime public art ridiculosity. Be sure to click over to view the whole series.
Thanks to Andrés Marroquín Winklemann and Joerg Colberg for the tip.
…where you can find my latest NYC listings — including a bit on Cory Arcangel’s new show (above) at the Whitney, complete with stonerrific video. Whoaaaaaaa!
The Fowler Arts Collective has gathered all manner of streety types for a combined mural project called Paint it Now that will debut this Friday at 7pm. The above image is from one of the exhibit’s previous incarnations at the Distillery Gallery in Boston. Now organizers Thomas Buildmore and Scott Chasse are bringing it to NYC, making this a good opportunity to get your black and white on — all while checking out works by Darkclouds, Celso, Nineta, Royce Bannon, Damon Silver and many others. See y’all there!
It’s impossible to take a bad picture of Milwaukee Art Museum’s atrium (designed by Santiago Calatrava). This museum is all kinds of killer. I couldn’t get enough. (As always, click on images to supersize.)
Would look smashing with a plastic cover: a mid-nineteenth century sofa attributed to John Henry Belter.
A sculpture by Donald Fortescue and Lawrence LaBianca in the museum’s New Materiality exhibit, up through June 12. This piece had a very subtle audio component to it: stand under the trumpet and you could hear the faint sounds of water sloshing. It was the kids there who pointed this out to us.
Continue reading ‘Photo Diary: A visit to the Milwaukee Art Museum.’
Find the latest (including this totally amazing 15th century illumination of the Whore of Babylon at the Morgan Library) at WNYC.
Things That Are Totally Awesome: The corn murals at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, S.D. Somebody please put these guys in a biennial. Click on images to supersize. It’s worth it. (Photos by C-M.)
The Vincent Price Art Museum at East L.A. College is opening the doors to its brand new building and it looks like it’s going to be all kinds of boss. In fact, it’s making me wish I wasn’t going to be out of town — because the inaugural shows appear to be all kinds of fantastic, including one on the roots of Mexican modernism and another featuring eight high-profile alums (including figures such as Kent Twitchell, Gronk, John Valadez and Diane Gamboa — who painted the above piece, Consensual Behavior, in 2003). Things get rolling this Friday, May 20, at noon. If you live in L.A., seems like a must-do.
