6/5-LA2
Finally find a corner in the hotel lobby that got more stable wi-fi connection.
Despite repeated warnings from people staying in LA that it is impossible to get by without a car, I went to getty by myself yesterday, and where I took the transfer is exactly where Hammer museum is, so at least I could visit Getty, Hammer, LA County (walking distance from hotel), by myself. The other places I intend to go by myself is Redcat (Calarts downtown annex) and LAMOCA. Met with a friend a friend introduces, and learn a bit more about why he left HK, the art scene here in HK is really too much like what the writer Chan (?, co-founder of City Magazine) has written, that the last generation is just too lucky, and it is now in the hole that it dug itself. He will take me to the rest of the places like Santa Monica, and Cal arts.
Getty is grand in style, upon arrival at the foo of its mountain, everyone was given first a finely full-colour leaflet, of just yesterday programme (yes, printed for just one day purpose), before we got on that private train uphill. It is pretty educational in setting and display information setting. the more interesting rooms are not of artworks, but those different period household setting, not as Chicago in miniature! you see how a living space suddenly turned into a museum. The best show on is not the Courbet, or Degas or Robert Adam, but one rare one on John Heartfield, unfortunately, despite all the wonderful first-hand materials, they haven't any postcard or catalogue for sale, just a brochure on it as the rest special exhibition. There in the bkshop is a little booklet called camera as weapon published in 1993(?), I didn't buy it, but it should be a gd one, hope I came upon it somewhere later in the trip. What mingpao is doing, and making a comparison of it or referencing it to Heartfield's work in the media, uupon the media use of images, should be interesting and suggestive enough, despite, also problematic enough (in term of the difference in political agenda).
Despite repeated warnings from people staying in LA that it is impossible to get by without a car, I went to getty by myself yesterday, and where I took the transfer is exactly where Hammer museum is, so at least I could visit Getty, Hammer, LA County (walking distance from hotel), by myself. The other places I intend to go by myself is Redcat (Calarts downtown annex) and LAMOCA. Met with a friend a friend introduces, and learn a bit more about why he left HK, the art scene here in HK is really too much like what the writer Chan (?, co-founder of City Magazine) has written, that the last generation is just too lucky, and it is now in the hole that it dug itself. He will take me to the rest of the places like Santa Monica, and Cal arts.
Getty is grand in style, upon arrival at the foo of its mountain, everyone was given first a finely full-colour leaflet, of just yesterday programme (yes, printed for just one day purpose), before we got on that private train uphill. It is pretty educational in setting and display information setting. the more interesting rooms are not of artworks, but those different period household setting, not as Chicago in miniature! you see how a living space suddenly turned into a museum. The best show on is not the Courbet, or Degas or Robert Adam, but one rare one on John Heartfield, unfortunately, despite all the wonderful first-hand materials, they haven't any postcard or catalogue for sale, just a brochure on it as the rest special exhibition. There in the bkshop is a little booklet called camera as weapon published in 1993(?), I didn't buy it, but it should be a gd one, hope I came upon it somewhere later in the trip. What mingpao is doing, and making a comparison of it or referencing it to Heartfield's work in the media, uupon the media use of images, should be interesting and suggestive enough, despite, also problematic enough (in term of the difference in political agenda).
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