Alice Cooper Drummer Neal Smith with Dave at the Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles, 2011
Foo Fighters front man and former drummer for Nirvana, Dave Grohl celebrates his Birthday today, having been born on January 14, 1969. Have a rockin’ Birthday, Dave!
On This Date In 1971: The band called Alice Cooper released their third album, Love It to Death, containing the single “I’m Eighteen.” Their first album produced by Bob Ezrin, Love It to Death went on to become the band’s commercial breakthrough, reaching number 35 on the Billboard 200 album chart and selling one million copies in the US.
If a first glance at the photo above has you wondering how a gallery floor covered with a vast and pristine aggregation of Sunflower Seeds qualifies as “Art,” please consider that these aren’t merely sunflower seeds but, rather, tiny hand-painted ceramic sculptures of Sunflower Seeds, and you may find your perception shifting. The Mary Boone Gallery in Chelsea is currently hosting an installation of Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds (2010), which originally debuted at London’s Tate Modern, where it covered nearly the entire floor of the Turbine Hall gallery. The Boone Gallery show has been significantly scaled down in size (from 100 million seeds in the original installation to several million here) but it is nevertheless an impressive sight. Continue reading Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds at The Mary Boone Gallery→