A little more about the museum:
They had an excellent display of art photography, on 3 floors. There were some works by Cindy Sherman, which were fascinating to see. A couple by these two guys who dress as dandies, then pose around town, or get rip roaring drunk. I can't remember their names, unfortunately. Then there were a couple floors on Jasper Johns, not really my thing. A floor of pop art, including a plushy, upside down city. I came into that room just as the sun was setting, and there was an entire wall of glass, so the upside down city had an orange right-side up city as a background. And a floor of what I want to call modern art, but that is an actual time period, isn't it? What I mean is art very recently created. A smashed car, spraypainted gray. Two screens of teens dancing selfconsciously, isolated in a partitioned room at a London club. A video of a naked woman hitting a punching bag. Bronzed lightbulbs.
My favorite was a fascinating laser disc called, I believe, Crematin 1, named after the muscle that causes the testicles to involuntarily retract in cold water. Women looking futuristic/retro, slowly dancing on a football field, forming geometric patterns mirrored by the actions of grapes in 2 Goodyear blimps above the action, manned by 50's style stewardesses. Fabulous.
Tomorrow is the GOONIES!!! Midnight showing in Uptown! I am so excited!
The smashed car spray-painted gray reminds me of an installation back here in SF. Outside the Yerba Buena center there's an artwork that involves a truck turned on its side and sending up smoke. There are also TVs with strange videos and such, but they can't be seen from the street and the fire department here is getting annoyed at all the calls about the overturned truck on the steps of the museum.
Posted by: Kira | November 14, 2003 at 10:08 PM
Hey, I had that same thought! There is a sign by that overturned truck now that say "this is an art work, do not call 911".
I have to go to a mall today and I'm hoping to make it a hit&run... don't let the Mall of America poison your brain! It's not natural!
Posted by: Stella | November 15, 2003 at 09:03 AM