Sunday, June 21, 2009

The New Museum - on Fathers Day!




Today my son took me to the New Museum on the Bowery, where I had never been, and we both saw things we could never have imagined. New art: The Generational: Younger Than Jesus. All art by people younger than 34.

But, can you imagine: art as a young woman sleeping under a comforter, on a white bed, among museum visitors? Yes! Thanks to the aid of sleeping pills!

Oh, I'll just post the pictures and let you make of it what you will!





There was also a chair that seemed quite presidential - but what was on the chair was electronic debris: wires, transisters and the like, all as if the entity there had melted away, leaving all that debris as well as a brown liquid-like smear all over the seat! And the flags! What to make of that? We older people may wonder ....!







But then there was, toward the end of the exhibition, on the ground floor, a room full of real debris!












But, let's look closer at those signs on the wall:

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