After our lunch at M. Wells, we did a little low impact museum visit at MoMA P.S. 1. One of the exhibits there through April is called The Talent Show, and it’s artists’s — and our own — takes on everyone’s 15 minutes of fame during (and before) this age of YouTube and reality TV. Appropriate, then, that the first exhibit you see is a podium (for you to stand on, of course) in front of Andy Warhol’s screen test short film. Only Josh was brave enough.
The museum is in a 100-year-old former public school (P.S.) and so the building is as much fun to look at as the art inside it.
All the hipsters were at the museum today.
Hipsters we know:
The podium:
Another piece in the exhibit. In this one, you can stand in front of the light and see yourself as you would if you were standing behind you.
The hunna looks a little like Roberto Benigni to me here:
Maybe it’s the scarf?
The stairwell:
Hunna walks up the Stair D:
We wandered through another exhibit called Only the Lonely by Laurel Nakadate.
The exhibit was the premiere of her photo series, 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears. According to the web site, “These photographs document a year-long performance that began on January 1, 2010, in which the artist documented, and continues to document herself before, during, and after weeping each day.”
We found that all a little self-absorbed.
Gregory, weeping, Feb. 19, 2011:
Elizabeth, weeping, Feb. 19, 2011:
Gregory and Elizabeth weeping. Pixels on Blackberry, 2011:
Josh, weeping, with Elizabeth and Gregory. Pixels on Blackberry, 2011.
Isn’t art fun?
I wanted to weep, really I did, but instead I laughed and laughed. Thanks for sharing the pics. Always a good time with you and Greg. Thanks for introducing us to Karen.
K&J
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