currently on view is the 'picasso looks at degas' show and a collection of sculptures by juan munoz (1953-2001).
"During his twenty-year career, Muñoz invented a mode of storytelling through objects that spoke to space, memory, and displacement. His very first sculptures used an architectural language of disappearance and loss—wood banisters in unused spaces, metal balconies shrugged off from buildings—while his later works introduced figures that programmatically resist attentiveness in order to push absorption out into the viewer's precarious and lived space."
the concept behind 'picasso looks at degas' became stronger as the viewer moved through the rooms and progressed deeper into picasso's later work. the initial comparisons appear weak and made me wonder where the proof of the connection was. my favorite comparison was on from he section 'women: their private world', where two large paintings, one in warm reds and the other in cool blues, hung side by side in obvious conversation.
other pieces:
"eyes" by louise bourgeois was installed in 2001 when the artist was 90 years old. she died this past may.
listening to: the dirty projectors
reading: a distant mirror; of mice and men
watching: garden state; dragonball
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