It’s a concept that takes Warhol one bold step further: receive $100,000 in prize money and instead of spending it, tack 100,000 used $1 bills to the walls of a museum.
Yesterday London's stately Tate Modern, the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, got an unexpected new installation. On the anniversary of the BP oil spill, a group of artist-activists removed a bench in one of the museum's large galleries, and poured "oil" (actually a mixture of charcoal and sunflower oil) over a naked co-conspirator who lay on the floor. link
April 21, 2011
Katy Grannan
The Happy Ever After: The Believers and Boulevard Series
"Someone asked me once if abstraction was subversive. I did not think so. And I don't think so now. It's subversive in the sense that it makes or helps people to think freely. But it's not trying to bring some other structure down to be seen. It makes its own space or has invented its own space. A space that didn't previously exist." Sean Scully