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Modern Art Monday Presents: Mirror Stratum By Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson Mirror Stratum
All Photos By Gail

Mirror Stratum (1966) by Robert Smithson (1938 – 1973) is made up of Stacked Mirrors on a Formica-covered base and makes for such a lovely, pyramid-shaped reflective thing that’s challenging to try to get decent photos of. The reflection you see slightly in the above photos is a fragment of the phrase, Wall Pitted By a Single Rifle Shot, which is a caption (itself a work of art by Lawrence Weiner) written high across the wall closest to the sculpture.
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Damien Hirst Skate Deck

Damien Hirst Skate Deck
Photo By Gail

The New Museum of Contemporary Art on Bowery in NYC is selling this Damien Hirst Spot Painting Skateboard Deck in its gift shop, but I didn’t even bother to look at the sale price. Seen here with Skull Bunny Playboy-inspired logo Designed by Lawrence Weiner with Artwork by Richard Prince. Functional Art!

Robert Montgomery at C24 Gallery

All Palaces
All Photos By Gail

To be honest, if a work of art also ‘lights up,’ I’m in. So it’s a bit appropriate that I was attracted into the C24 Gallery on a recent Saturday by the light emitting from London-based artist Robert Montgomery’s poetic, text-based installation works as seen from the sidewalk through gallery windows. Random!
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