"Nonstop imagery is our surround, but when it comes to remembering, the photograph has the deeper bite....
In an era of information overload, the photograph..is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb."
(Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others 2003)

14 March, 2008

New York PS


At the Guggenheim...
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/cai.html

Cai Guo-Quiang fills the snail shell with perhaps the most extraordinary installation ever.
Anyone visiting NYC between now & May 28th should definitely take a detour to 5th & E 89th...

An excellent review of the show and perceptive comments by Time's Richard Lacayo who blogs on art and architecture

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1720099,00.html