Archive for ‘Art’
Spotted Dog | Matthew Kargol | East Village, Des Moines | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang “Spotted Dog” by artist Matthew Kargol of Oskaloosa, located in the corner of East 5th and Locust Street in the trendy East Village district in downtown Des Moines, is a bike rack sculpture with a fun twist. Six Iowa artists were selected to create bike racks with funding support from Mayor's Annual...
More →Valiant Struggle No. 11 | Chen Wenling | Boeing Galleries | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Chen Wenling's "Valiant Struggle No. 11” was a part of Boeing Galleries’ exhibition A Conversation With Chicago: Contemporary Sculpture From China. In addition to Chen’s work, the exhibition also featured three more large-scale sculptures by Chinese artists, including “Windy City Dinosaur” by Sui Jianguo, “Jia Shan Shi No. 46" by Zhan Wang,...
More →Prophecy of the Ancients by Brower Hatcher | Minneapolis Sculpture Garden | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Navigating byzantinevery complex street-network in downtown Minneapolis was no less than a thorny commission and I did it while listening to an anomalous mix-tape made by Sue, my perky graphic designer friend. I missed my Interstate 94 exit while Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax masterfully interpreting Johannes Brahms’ Sonata No. 1 for Cello...
More →After a stimulating conversation with Q about her preference to adopt a dinosaur as her pet-slash-bodyguard, I have been conducting rummages in every pet store to determine the probability of that particular command. Q, my painter friend’s five-year-old cutie, was very explicit about her dinosaur. The specification is as followed: 1. The Dinosaur Pet needs to be as big as Sue the T-Rex in the Field Museum 2. The Dinosaur...
More →MCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, was initially conceptualized in a 1964 meeting of Chicago personals at art critic Doris Lane Butler’s home to establish a museum devoted to the modern art to complement Chicago’s Art Institute of Chicago. The MCA was opened in 1967 in a small space in the Kunsthalle model and began to establish a collection of contemporary art in 1974. In 1996, the museum was moved...
More →After a fun-but-somewhat-long unsubscribed lecture by a mysteriously jovial barista in a café in downtown Chicago, I was finally able to put the image of ten heavy-duty helicopters carrying "The Bean", a bit like what happened at the end of film Swordfish, from a remote arty island to its current urban location. Detecting my hearing-is-not-always-believing kind of expression, the barista acutely assured me that this $23 million uneatable bean was...
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