Geoffrey and I spent a few hours this afternoon uptown at the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art blowing our minds at their current exhibit, Summer of Love, which is so amazing it will make your head explode. We were able to get in free with my ID card from work, but it’s totally worth the $15 admission. One of my favorite parts of the exhibit was the Roomful of Mirrors, while Geoffrey couldn’t stop talking about this one installation Phantasy Landscape Visiona II, by Verner Panton, which he repeatedly referred to as “The Vagina Room.”
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Happy Easter and the Controversy of the Chocolate Jesus
Your Own…Choc-o-late…Je-sus…
Nothing says Happy Easter to me quite like this fantastic sculpture of Jesus made entirely out of milk chocolate, which was lovingly crafted by Brooklyn-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro. A lot of ignorant, narrow minded, tight-ass religious conservatives have given Cosimo a hard time about the My Sweet Lord sculpture, as it is also known.
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Good News: The Scream Has Been Recovered!
Not McCauley Culkin
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s oft-coopted and wildly iconic masterpiece The Scream has been recovered two years after masked gunmen stole the painting from a Norwegian museum, Oslo police announced Thursday. Yay.