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Walker Art Center this is something of a spy photo. Of a spy plane. Well, not a real spy plane, but a sort of replica of one by Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, a retrospective of whose work was the highlight of today's visit with Sarah, my sister Marketa and two of her kids, David and Emma. Fine art is mostly boring to 9 and 6 year olds, bur they did like an interactive Q&A oracular dolphin, Robert Smithson's Mirror with Crushed Shells, and Jasper Johns' Flags optical illusion painting where you stare at it for 20 seconds, then look down at a dull grey surface where the correct colors appear due to lingering effect on your eyes. My favorite piece had to be Charles Ray's Unpainted Sculpture, a fiberglass reconstruction of a smashed-up Pontiac Grand Am. What he did was buy a wreck from a yard, take it apart, cast each individual part, reassemble it, and paint it flat primer grey. It took two years to make. |
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