Best laid plans
As predicted, the Matthew Barney event at the Hirshhorn last night drew an overwhelming crowd. The make-sure-and-get-there-early-to-ensure-that-you-get-a-ticket warnings were heeded so Alex and I arrived at 5:30pm, well before advanced ticketing began. There was already a throng of ticket-hopefuls snaking around the lobby, but we took our place in line optimistically. It was around 6:15pm—when they were supposed to start handing out tickets—that we noticed the crowd thinning. However it wasn’t thinning out because people were being let into the auditorium, it was getting smaller...
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Short list
All dressed up and no place to go? Allow me to suggest the following activities taking place this week in and around Baltimore: + Meet the Artist: Matthew Barney: The acclaimed artist and filmmaker best known for The Cremaster Cycle, and more recently for his collaboration with Björk in Drawing Restraint 9, will be at the Hirshhorn this Wednesday at 7pm with Guggenheim Museum curator Nancy Spector discussing the influence of Joseph Beuys‘ art on the evolution of his work. If you really can’t make...
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No love for the MoMA
I’m temporarily blacklisting the MoMA (no link = no love). I deliberately made a late train reservation back to Mobtown so that I might be able to catch a glimpse of Doug Aitken’s sleepwalkers, which was going to be showing on (yes, on) the MoMA beginning at 5pm. A little before 4pm, I decided that rather than wait around in the cold, that I would be somewhat ridiculous and buy a ticket for the museum, so I could wander around and see something for an...
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Sunday misc.
Where my mind’s been: - Condi Rice gets reviewed in the Times. - Andy Rooney talks about education. A generation of “cultural idiots”—haha. - Ian Burama on Park Chanwook. - Paris-Roubaix 2006: Cancellara attacks, Hincapie snaps, Boonen derailed delayed at the tracks. - Hello Jesse and Joe—two Michigan MUSICOL 501 friends! Recently Read: Invisible Cities and Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino, The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende, The New York Trilogy (yay) and Timbuktu (nay) by Paul Auster, A.H.W.O.S.G. (a book has never...
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Slowness
I recently watched the film Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2001). It’s a portrait of the artist Andy Goldsworthy, who works exclusively with materials found in nature, like stone, wood, leaves, and ice. His work is stunning. Ephemeral. Fragile. Trascendent. Beautiful. It’s all of those things. But what also struck me about Goldsworthy was his absolute engagement with his sculpture. His concentration is immense. He is completely engrossed in the moment while at work, highlighting both the beautiful and ephemeral in his pieces. Time...
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