Opening day in the Koons corner at the brand-spanking-new Broad Contemporary Art Museum in sunny Southern California.
Spent all day Sunday—yes, all day, from 10 to 4—going from Broad event to Broad event to celebrate the opening of BCAM. The morning began with a visit to the recently re-installed Broad Art Foundation in Santa Monica. This is usually a hard ticket to get. But this year it was easier, because the hard ticket to get was an invite to the Sunday lunch at BCAM. Thankfully, we got into both. (And, sadly, Tom Cruise was at neither.)
Money shots and blow-by-blow after the jump. As always, click on images to see them large.
Continue reading ‘It’s a Broad, Broad, Broad, Broad World.’
“Wait ’til you see the penis thing!”
“Forty-five thousand? Really?”
“I’m so lost.”
Most repeated expression of the day: “…and, you know, the artist attended Yale, and s/he’s been on the cover of…”
Eva + Adele at Art Basel.
Paul McCarthy’s chocolate buttplug Santas. I hate to admit this, but they smelled really good.
Continue reading ‘Overheard at Art Basel Miami Beach’
“This is scary.”
The sculpture is currently on display at MoMA in NYC. In Boston, you can see Bourgeois’s work at the Institute of Contemporary Art through March 2, 2008. Read more about her here.
Posted by C-Monster.
“I’m really worried she’s just going to suffocate in that thing.”
Mahomi Kunikata dressed up as a Kuromu, one of her characters, during her opening at the Jack Tilton Gallery in NYC. (There’s video, too.) More photos after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Overheard @ the Mahomi Kunikata Show’
“I think this whole thing is just one big penis.”
“It’s an artwork, not a Rolls Royce.”
MoCA employee to friend: “Have you seen the boutique? It’s soooo hot.”
“I like this one, it’s like the same thing. But different.”
Most repeated expression of the night: “How long is the line?’
All the dazed people in this foto are staring at Murakami, who is standing just below the bottom edge of this frame.
My overview after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Overheard @ the MoCA Murakami Opening’
“If this were at the Museum of Natural History, I don’t think I’d give it another look.”
“So bourgeois.”
“Ooh, sexy!”
What’s a museum gotta do to display a 20-ton work that consists of one dead cartilaginous fish and oodles of formaldehyde? For one, install a new ventilation system. And while they’re at it, rebuild the floor.
Posted by C-Monster
