I knew--thanks to Ms Harris's comment a few weeks ago--that Maurizio Cattelan has a big show at the Guggenheim. What I didn't know until today is that he refused the service of walls and instead hung all the art from the ceiling in the center.
Road trip to New York?
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I love Cattelan AND the NYC. Did you hear about this show? The artist won an award & wallpapered the Guggenheim with $1 bills. Maybe he's creating a juxtaposition between ubiquity & 'sacred' spaces. Personally, $2 bills would've garnered more of a visceral response from me. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/arts/design/german-artist-hans-peter-feldmanns-installation-100000-1-bills-on-guggenheim-walls.html?pagewanted=all
Ms Harris, you're betraying your newness to Art History Links. I wrote about the Feldman show this July.
But I do like your $2 bill idea--he can get them from the metal recyclers here in town that advertise paying in two dollar bills.
Oh! There was an article about Cattelan in the New Yorker a couple of weeks back. The author didn't share Ms. Harris' love of Cattelan. Much of the article was devoted to explaining why Cattelan didn't consider himself an artist and why he wasn't even worthy of the title of artist.
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