The New York Times Online has a review of the opening exhibition at the NY Museum of Arts and Design. The review is decidedly mixed:
The shows resemble an art seminar-cum-food-fight — an amazing cacophony that is by turns dismaying, enervating, infuriating and invigorating.
But, in the end, is recommended. And I would certainly take a turn through if it were to come to Vancouver.
There are two parts to the show: The first is called “Second Lives: Remixing The Ordinary” which uses the post-modernist cliche to take lots of small parts and make a larger whole. It is a cliche these days, but that doesn’t mean the work is bad or ordinary. I rather like this version of an old classic called “Sound Wave” for example:
The second part of the show seeks to introduce some elements of the new permanent collection and some promised donations. The reviewer notes that:
I’m against museum deaccessioning, but around a third of the promised gifts on view should be tactfully declined.
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