Yesterday I went and saw Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow exhibit at the "Nomadic Museum" on Pier 54. The structure of the nomadic museum consists of shipping containers and cardboard. From the outside it looks like junk arranged in the manner of lego blocks, but inside the architecht and artist managed to create a kind of sacred space. Serving as a means of exhibiting Colbert's photos and video, the interior is really striking. You can read the articles below for descriptions of the photos; this is something that should be seen.
Here's a CBC article about the show.
Here's a Washington Post article about the architecht, Shigeru Ban.
Here's a NY Metro article about the whole situation.
Here's the official site for the exhibit.
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http://www.davidbyrne.com/journal/current.php
Am I to consider it neat that david byrne and I tread to the same places once in a bit? or am i to consider my opinions less sophisticated than the illustrious mr. byrne? hmmm
ah haha. no!
1) neat that within a day you both went (maybe he copied you--you posted about it earlier!)
2) also I like that he wrote about his daughter so much. once right after a show, I saw him walk off down the aisle I was sitting in, and his daughter ran excitedly to meet him halfway--and he was still all roboty, and it was so nice/weird to see him sort of awkwardly, lovingly say "ah malu!" really happily despite the robot residue, as he bent sideways to put his arm around her, still swiftly moving forwad, now bringing her along with him. she was like a puppy and he was a little like a robot.
3) and also I liked, in his artshow rant, that he seems to ramble and get a little lofty in a tangential (almost silly/embarrassing) way it's almost *so* self-conscious, self-reflective, trying to hypothesize, etc. that it's not self-conscious at all--like, it sort of makes me feel ok about all the things I might write...and so, glad that he's willing to think-write like that. (and he IS illustrious, isn't he?)
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