By Lucia Simek on September 30, 2011
It’s State Fair time again. I haven’t been in nearly a decade, but I’ve promised my small people I’ll go this year. I look forward to it with a kind of glee mixed with fear – a potent cocktail born of memories of sickness and stickiness and the smell of livestock. In honor of those [...]
Posted in Blog, Shelf Life, Uncategorized | Tagged claes oldenburg, elizabeth crawford, janine antoni, jeff kooks, lindee climo, margaret meehan, martin paar, neo rauch, peter saul, Rebecca Warren, state fair, texas state fair, william eggleston |
By Betsy Lewis on July 24, 2011
I saw STATUESQUE for the second time on Saturday, July 23rd, from 11:15 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. The temperature was 90 degrees at arrival and 94 degrees at departure. The sun was already angry. I went to observe how looking at art outside under a punishing sun would affect how we look at art. Rather [...]
Posted in Don't Look. Okay Look., Uncategorized | Tagged Aaron Curry, Big Pink, Calder, City Hall Park, Clamdigger, DeKooning, Frankenstein's monster, Horned Head Trip, Huma Bhabha, Large Concretized Monument to the Twentieth Century, Lord of the Flies, Lumpy Figure, Matthew Monahan, Nasher Sculpture Center, Nation Builder, Nicholas Baume, Nowolipie Group, Orientalist, Pawel Althamer, Public Art Fund, Rebecca Warren, Red Man, Seated Woman, Sprawling Octopus Man, Star Wars, Statuesque, Sylvvia, Thomas Houseago, Yellow Bird Boy |