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Photos: Twelve Artists Who Make Marfa, Texas, a Cultural Destination
One expects to encounter the Milanese fashion brand’s storefronts in such chic locations as Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue and Paris’s Rue Saint-Honoré, but what about finding a Prada boutique just off U.S. Highway 90, a mile west of Valentine, Texas? Such is what the Scandinavian-born, Berlin-based artist collaborators Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset set out to achieve in the fall of 2005 with their permanently installed sculpture aptly entitled Prada Marfa, which actually stands some 30 miles outside of Marfa.
Tom Sachs , dressed in khakis and a white short-sleeve collared shirt complete with pocket protector, stood at a control panel in the front of the Park Avenue Armory ’s cavernous Wade Thompson Drill Hall, his face lit by a bank of dozens of television monitors. Slowly, deliberately, the artist called out over walkie-talkie to his similarly uniformed assistants spread throughout the mammoth hall — “Camera one, okay, camera two. Rockets. Camera four. Space.” A video sequence gradually filled the central monitor depicting a space shuttle taking off from its launch pad, gushing smoke.
Join the Crew of Tom Sachs's DIY Mission to Mars at Park Avenue Armory
Smell This Shit – It’s Art
A truly interactive exhibit at this Aussie museum has visitors gagging, as reported by Reuters : Smelling excrement may not be everyone’s idea of fun, but for those who like to push the boundaries, Australia’s most controversial new museum may be just what they are looking for.
The project, to be financed by UBS and called the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative, will begin with South and Southeast Asia.
Guggenheim and UBS Project Plan Cross-Cultural Program
These thoughts were crystallized for me by one of the most beautiful exhibitions I have ever seen: “Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800)” at the National Gallery of Art here.
‘Colorful Realm,’ Works by Ito Jakuchu at National Gallery
‘In Vibrant Color’ - Harry Warnecke - National Portrait Gallery
¶ “I Love Lucy” wouldn’t have been as funny in color. ¶Gen.The exhibition, which comes to the Met by way of the Grand Palais in Paris and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, explores the closely intertwined collections of the siblings Leo, Gertrude and Michael Stein (and Michael’s wife, Sarah). It casts these wealthy American expatriates as ahead-of-the-curve art patrons, whose tastes and social networks shaped Modernism as we know it.