Hello, 2010! After skipping a year of life, I have officially quit grad school, and thus I am resuscitating my blog. (Now with less inane commentary! More posts that way!)
With March comes Spring rain, pretty flowers, and potholes. And some British dude named Pete Dungey (who clearly needs to pay the Bay State roadways a visit) has been prettying up potholes with tiny guerilla gardens. Which, while beautiful, make last summer's basil plant failure that much more depressing to yours truly. Check them out!
Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang is having a mid-career retrospective, entitled "I Want To Believe," at the Guggenheim this month. I'll be honest, I've never actually heard of him before. But I have to say that his installation in the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda is pretty much the coolest thing ever. It's a bunch of cars tumbling (well, suspended) down seven stories, stop motion photography-style, erupting with sprays of neon sparks. Though I've been thinking, anything resembling a car bomb is probably not a good idea for an art installation in Manhattan, am I right? Nevertheless, this exhibition might even give me the motivation to actually go to New York for a few days over break. Anyone have a couch I can crash on? Pun intended.
