31/5-NY17 handling reality
With the Robert Hughes Goya TV special programme mentioned before last night, get up real late today. call on HK to say a happy birthday. Watch a bit of a Spelling Bee Marathon competition, absolutely a national torture for US kids, before we met and went north to Bronx, which is also my first time there. Visited the Bronx Museum of Art, with a group show going on of a group of selected artists after joining their program, which including short courses on presentation, law etc, different sorts of professional/survival skills. The works, maybe, because of the spacious venue, seems quite good. An artist with a map copied onto his hand, walked with the pace of his fingernail growth, immediately remind me of Pak's work he did on his plane to Taiwan.
Then we move on, but it is already getting late for HK to eat before he attend his friend's film screening, so he gave up to the next stop at Bronx Roverside Art Center, which have another no bad show addressing "Katrina and the Waves of its Diaspora".
Then I too returned to Manhattan midtown public library for a talk on Dada, by a curator of Fluxus exhibition in Germany and scholar on Dada, part of the program for the coming Dada show in Moma (coming from Washington?). Something learnt from the talk, like a Merz column which immediately seems to be a must reference for reading Hirschhorn's earlier monument.
But after the talk, I asked her a few questions and that were quite disappointing, for she said that Duchamp's fountain was withdrawn after exhibiting for a day during the talk, and I asked her if she has done some research to support this version of history, and she seemed originally quite sure, but when I mentioned about de Duve's version, she said de Duve should have done more research into the matter and should be correct. I do admit, very different sorts of audiences came to this sort of public lecture, and so the academical level wasn't really that high. but she thus suddenly turned in my eyes, into one of those highschool teachers which simplified the matter (in this case, not for student's but audience's level sake), regardless of her credibility as a scholar. But everyone is surely happy, as they have prepared some MOMA family pass for the coming Dada show for those who filled in the questioniares over the talk.
nothing much art program on TV tonight, with the arts channel playing some opera, which is no fun to watch with tuned down volume. watch a bid of In the Mood for Love during cooking and just now another extremely funny Whose line is it anyway? Wish all artists in the entertainment industry could be as talent. Or maybe I like them for their improvisational skills are also a supreme kind of bricolage.
Then we move on, but it is already getting late for HK to eat before he attend his friend's film screening, so he gave up to the next stop at Bronx Roverside Art Center, which have another no bad show addressing "Katrina and the Waves of its Diaspora".
Then I too returned to Manhattan midtown public library for a talk on Dada, by a curator of Fluxus exhibition in Germany and scholar on Dada, part of the program for the coming Dada show in Moma (coming from Washington?). Something learnt from the talk, like a Merz column which immediately seems to be a must reference for reading Hirschhorn's earlier monument.
But after the talk, I asked her a few questions and that were quite disappointing, for she said that Duchamp's fountain was withdrawn after exhibiting for a day during the talk, and I asked her if she has done some research to support this version of history, and she seemed originally quite sure, but when I mentioned about de Duve's version, she said de Duve should have done more research into the matter and should be correct. I do admit, very different sorts of audiences came to this sort of public lecture, and so the academical level wasn't really that high. but she thus suddenly turned in my eyes, into one of those highschool teachers which simplified the matter (in this case, not for student's but audience's level sake), regardless of her credibility as a scholar. But everyone is surely happy, as they have prepared some MOMA family pass for the coming Dada show for those who filled in the questioniares over the talk.
nothing much art program on TV tonight, with the arts channel playing some opera, which is no fun to watch with tuned down volume. watch a bid of In the Mood for Love during cooking and just now another extremely funny Whose line is it anyway? Wish all artists in the entertainment industry could be as talent. Or maybe I like them for their improvisational skills are also a supreme kind of bricolage.
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