Tag: museum

  • A Simpler Way

    And then there’s the magic of our own neighborhood.  Where one day you can spend the day seeing Ai Weiwei at The Brooklyn Museum through the eyes of a five year old… And playing in the trees of Swoon… Only to wake up the next morning to a note, on a branch, on a tree,…

  • Yayoi Kusama’s “Obliteration Room”

    Gotta gotta gotta love Yayoi Kusama.  Always have, always will.  My friend Ben Austin’s feed reminded me about Kusama’s simple yet striking new show at GOMA.  Here’s an excerpt from thisiscolassal, showing what the installation looked like when she started, and what it looks like after Kusama gave thousands of colored stickers to thousands of kids at…

  • My Statement On “Progress” For The Guggenheim Museum’s New Tino Sehgal Exhibit

    It’s harder than I thought to write about progress.  The kind of question that stops you from making any progress in answering it.  But the the challenge from The Guggenheim Museum — part of Tino Sehgal’s new exhibit — gave me a chance to write about an inspiring yet unsettling visit, months ago, from a…

  • Guggenheim This Thursday Night

    My good friend, Nancy Spector, is doing another breakthrough idea at Guggenheim tomorrow night. It’s the ART AWARDS by artist Rob Pruitt. Great coverage in ART IN AMERICA and pretty much everywere else. Go if you can!

  • Rothko In Liverpool

    In case you happen to find yourself in Liverpool, spend an afternoon at the Tate… Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals 2 October 2009 – 21 March 2010