NaBloPoMo 2020 Art Tour
Wanda, Derek, Tom and I set out on our Art Tour promptly at 11am. You have to make a firm plan these days due to the timed ticket situation at museums. This is really a hitch in my giddyup because I enjoy a spontaneous outing wherein I show up whenever the hell I want.
Despite the timed tickets, we showed up pretty much whenever the hell we wanted. Derek and Wanda overshot the Whitney and had to walk the whole way back. Upon learning this news, Tom detoured to look at some sneakers and then of course we had to walk through Arhaus beause we were right by there anyway.
This is about the fifth time I've seen the Craft exhibition at the Whitney. It is really something, I tell you. Of course the bedazzled kitchen is the standout every single person sets off the alarm trying to get a better look at. It really is something.
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| This whole entire kitchen life-sized diorama is covered in glittery beads. |
This time I really appreciated this "femmage" by Miriam Schapiro who stuck fabric to painted canvas:
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| "the Beauty of Summer" |
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| "Four Friends" by Salman Toor |
Salman Toor was born in 1983 and he paints "young, queer Brown men in New York and South Asia as fictional versions of himself and his friends. He grew up in Pakistan but he now lives in New York. I'm glad he made it here. It feels like it would be incredibly rough to live the kind of life as depicted in these paintings anywhere but a place like New York City.
After that we walked up to David Zwirner to see Donald Judd.
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| Self portrait of me, wanda, derek & Tom in two dimensions shrunk down by this metal sculpture that looked like a very long bread box. |
OK fine. Our self portrait looked a lot cooler in real life.
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| This is some serious craftsmanship |
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| A painting of a fantastical forest. |
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