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Robert Rauschenberg (1925 to 2008) made Grand Black Tie Sperm Glut (1987) in response to the recession in the 1980s in his native Texas when a “glut“ in the oil market threw the state’s economy into a tailspin. Here, and in the artist’s larger series of Gluts to which this work belongs, he assembled metal scraps, often the debris of American car culture. He observed, “I think of the gluts as souvenirs without nostalgia.” This amalgamation of weathered road signs, some of which are riddled with bullet holes, rejects the idea that there’s a single way forward.
Photographed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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The most popular art exhibit in the city right now is Kara Walker’s massive Sugar Sphinx: the crouching figure of an African America woman, completely covered in white, refined sugar, which was constructed over an eight week period in the cavernous interior of the now defunct Domino Sugar Factory building that faces the waterfront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Continue reading Kara Walker’s Sugar Sphinx at the Domino Sugar Factory →
10. Well, how about that? I’m lost! Looks like we’ll have to stop and ask for directions.
9. You know Pumpkin, now that you’re thirteen, you’ll be ready for unchaperoned car dates. Won’t that be fun?
8. I noticed that all your friends have a certain “up yours” attitude … I like that.
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