Push Pops "Rainbagladybow" for Art in Odd Places Festival 2011

Rainbagladybow is a performance pilgrimage from the East River to the Hudson for Art in Odd Places Festival 2011: RITUAL. These images were made i one of their performance last weekend. The performance art is a three-tiered woman chorus exploring the necessity of magic, whimsy and ritual under the word salad banners of the trash adorned urban spiritual elite. Carrying East River Holy Water they will dump ceremoniously in the Hudson, The Push Pops will travel along Manhattan’s 14th st. a bustling place of commerce burying a historical canal once a rich source of natural resources. Navigating glitter trash and the porous boundaries of the commercial and chaste, secular and religious, the intelligible an unintelligible, the Push Pops dawn ribbons, coconut water bottles and otherwise odd baubles like precious totems. Part streetside shrine, gypsy caravan and consumer spectacle…Rainbagladybowstakes a proud claim in the power of ethereal sludge.
Information from the Go! Push Pops website.

A VISIT TO THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA)

Last Saturday, I visited the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA) in midtown Manhattan. The museum was designed by architect Yoshio Taniguchi who created a final effect that is rectilinear, immaculate and spacious. There are acres of white wall, white-oak floor and a lot of halogen lights on discreetly recessed tracks. One of the stairwells caught my attention so I made a photograph of it framed on a vast wall creating a simple image with clean lines.

Architect’s statement: “The primary objective in the design of a museum is to create an ideal environment for the interaction of people and art. Galleries and public spaces are the core elements in a museum. A variety of gallery spaces appropriate to MoMA's collection of 20th-century masterworks as well as new galleries for the yet unknown works of contemporary art is the first requirement for an expanded Museum. Renovation and reuse of the intimately scaled existing galleries, along with the addition of multiuse new galleries with high ceilings and long continuous walls, would provide a diversity of exhibition spaces while creating an interlocking dialogue of space, art, and architecture....”