In the beginning… (Photos by C-M.)
Last Friday was the last, exhausting day of the USC Annenberg Getty Fellowship. Thankfully, the three weeks of Chicken Little driving around L.A. were capped with an absolutely sublime happening: we got to watch the sun set inside a James Turrell sculpture at the home of a pair of prominent L.A. art collectors. The piece is super simple: a giant white cube, where you can sit and gape at the sky through an opening overhead (reminiscent of his piece at P.S. 1 in NYC). The square cut out of the ceiling makes for a nice frame. The lights within the sculpture highlight the intensity of changing blues. Naturally, I snapped the whole process. I’m not quite sure that I was able to fully capture the subtle variations of the sky as the sun set, but I wasn’t gonna leave without giving it a try.
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In the conference room at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with ceiling wallpaper by John Baldessari. (Photo by C-M.)
Hey Folks:
Due to the crazy schedule on this fellowship (today is the last day), the Digest is a bust. In lieu of something informative, please enjoy the view of John Baldessari’s ceiling installation inside LACMA’s boardroom. It’s what I was looking at while museum director Michael Govan was coyly leaving the door open to a merger with MOCA.
xox, C.
Victorious Youth, a Greek bronze from roughly 300-100 BC. (Photo by C-M.)
Hey Folks: This Annenberg/Getty fellowship is keeping me on the run about 14 hours a day and I’m seriously wiped. So, no Digest today or tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy the Getty Villa’s Victorious Youth, above. Hubba hubba.
xox, C.
Genius Loci: The pooper at Thom Mayne’s architectural firm, Morphosis.
Dawn at Joshua Tree. (Photo by C-M.)
Work-in-progress: A painting of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium at the Warner Bros. backlot in Burbank.
Tommy, ready to strike. In a thigh-revealing micro-mini. (Photos by C-M.)
Today, I would like to pay tribute to The Gay Recluse, who regularly pens one of the most awesome art-related features in the blogosphere: Hot Gay Statues. While hanging out on the USC campus yesterday, I realised that storied USC mascot Tommy Trojan would make a perfect addition the list: he’s got six-pack abs and an ass that you could bounce quarters off of. Not to mention a very large sword.
TGR: Hope it’s okay to borrow your idea for a day. I couldn’t resist. In the meantime, check Tommy out right this second on the 24-hour Tommy Cam.
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Dude in loin cloth, tanning, with a very large knife. Spotted on our walk through the Griffith Observatory.
I’m in the Fred Astaire room. Kick ass.
