Is the Coptic Stitch Right For You? (Day 4)

MOMA (color chart)

I like color. It would appear that many artists also like color. Our interests are so in tune with one another that I think I may just have to friend them on facebook. I’m going to “poke” you Baldessari!

I’m always amazed at the discussion that goes on over color being under-represented. David Batchelor’s Chromophobia heatedly argues an existing prejudice against color. The MOMA exhibition is in a way antithetical to this view. Color has been used, liberally even, for a long time when it comes to, not just art, but design as well. Color has not been put on the sideline in favor of some monochromatic dystopian future. But, rather finds its way into almost all work at some level, and only when conceptually necessary is it omitted.


Whitney Biennial

The Whitney Biennial was curated to showcase the lesser known and the up and coming. It was, coincidentally, awful. There were several exceptions to this rule. Along with a pants poopingly good film by Omer Fast, there was a great series of sculptures by Walead Beshty. Like a glove over an aquarium, multiple Fed Ex boxes were fitted over glass cubes, which were then shipped to the Whitney. The cracking, splintering, and subsequent buckling of the glass cubes chronicled their trek through the shipping system. I feel that these were likely chosen for material reasons. The simplicity and relatively cheap/simple construction of the work played into the idea of new artworks, as if the curator wanted to be positive that those who visited the Whitney knew exactly what they were looking at.