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March 16, 2010
In Glowing, Magnificent, Shiny
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Olafur Eliasson makes me shit my pants full of rainbows

Are you in Kanazawa, Japan right now? If the answer is yes, then a) I’m super jealous b) you can still catch Olafur Eliasson’s show “Your Chance Encounter” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art of Kanazawa until March 22.

I have a rocky relationship with Olafur, personally; one minute I’m hating on his stupid waterfalls, the next I’m getting all weepy and transcendent at his warm glowy womb room at the MoMA. His work is so good when it dematerializes and then reappears all up in your personal space. It’s also often terribly beautiful. There’s no doubt in my mind that when this sucker is on, he is ON.

I can’t say I’ve seen any of this work in person so I can’t help you out by explaining how it works, so instead just ENJOY. And maybe gnaw your fingernails in jealousy. Because, giant rainbow light rooms? Rhombic kaleidoscopes? Come on!

Images via Olafur Eliasson’s website.

December 8, 2009
In BFFs, Kids These Days, Magnificent
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Living in Delusion (Downtown)

The ladies of the Delusional Downtown Divas do something you don’t see all too often: make fun of the art world through being root-tootingly HILARIOUS (as opposed to normal art world criticism, which is often pedantic and hypocritical and snoozerfest). Maybe it’s because by “art world” we mean “themselves.”

Meet Oona, Swann, and AgNess: hyped-up versions of their real world selves, who were artworld born-and-raised, but are 1000x more embarassing and 1000x more entertaining.

They’ve just launched their second season which you can watch here. And if you don’t you are making a SAD SAD mistake for yourself and your sense of humor. Watch it and laugh until you wonder how many people are actually unselfconsciously like this all the time? Answer: Um actually quite a few.

Cheers, ladies!