Photo By Gail
Fred Wilson’s Guarded View (1991) aggressively confronts viewers with four black, headless mannequins dressed as museum guards. Each figure wears a uniform, dating to the early 1990s, from one of four New York cultural institutions: the Jewish Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Painted Bronze Sculpture by Zhang Xiaogang (All Photos By Gail)
There are two things you can usually count on when attending an art opening at Pace Gallery: The art will be physically imposing in some way and the room will be absolutely packed. Such was the case last Thursday when we attended the reception for an exhibit by Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang, who has been represented by Pace since 2007.
Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman named to a major-party presidential ticket, has passed away today after a long battle with cancer. She was 75 years old. Oh man, I am too sad to even talk about this right now. Rest in peace brave lady.
Here’s a little snippet I paraphrased from a press release sent to me earlier this week.
“School’s Out! Alice Cooper and Barack Obama Headline ASU Graduation.”
On Wednesday, May 13, Alice Cooper will appear before an anticipated crowd of 63,000 [Note: the release actually gave the number as “63,00,” so I’m just guessing], including 9,000 Arizona State University graduates, at ASU commencement ceremonies at Sun Devil Stadium in Phoenix. Alice will perform the perennial start-of-summer anthem “School’s Out,” backed by Runaway Phoenix, the band of which his son Dash Cooper (ASU Class of ’10) is a member.
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Happy To See McCain Winning this Contest!
I know this is stale-dated but it’s still extremely hilarious. Why didnt I see any of these posters in and around NYC last year? I would have contributed a wad of gum to McCain’s face, for sure.
