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FOCUS: KAWS at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Brooklyn artist KAWS hurls the onlooker into a cartoon’s daytime nightmare with effectively targeted film and television favorites, calling forth a sense of the unexpected that is fun and funny but also disturbing and super-creepy. You might call it macabre (which is a pretentious word, like pescetarian). KAWS (whose real name is Brian Donnelly) developed his style [...]
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Actors Playing Artists: Will The Real Andy Warhol Please Stand Up?
In response to the record heat, I am trying to move as little as possible. Even body heat is the enemy. Therefore, engagement in anything cultural becomes problematic, so I turn to two fine resources that combine entertainment with immobility: Netflix and the iPhone. This installment of “Don’t Look. Okay Look.” pays tribute to laying [...]