The Greatest Living American Artist
After a brief stop in Nashville, TN working on a secret project for ANPQ #9, I jetted over to NYC for the big ANP party at St. Marks Church. Well as you all know, that party never happened, so I found myself instead sitting in New York with absolutely no (justifiable) reason to be there. So...as the old saying goes, "I made lemons into lemonade" and ran uptown to check out the Richard Prince retrospective at the Guggenheim.
If your not familiar with Prince's work, I highly suggest you start your research now...cause if there's one living American artist working today that's worth knowing about it's this guy. First of all, the show is a total blockbuster (and not in the cheesy Hollywood movie style sense of the word)...it's just massive and beaming and touching and sad and punk and angry and dangerous and well, just damn exciting! It's the real deal folks, and in an art world that's more and more often fraught with fancy packages delivering empty promises, this show is most definitely a welcome relief.
To go into detail about the massive amount of works shown here would be futile, but let's just say the following subjects are covered: Jokes, Gangs, Monster Trucks, Muscle Cars, Bikers, Celebrities, Pulp Fiction, Heavy Metal, Politicians, Products, Protest, Cowboys, Girlfriends, Nurses, Barren Landscapes and the Industrial Wasteland to name a few.
Basically, it's America...in all its glorious excess and pitiful decay. It makes you love the place and feel sorry for it at the same time, yet left me inspired and alive and happy that art exists in this world. It's the real reason I ended up in New York. Thanks Richard, I needed that.
Richard Prince: Spiritual America” continues through Jan. 9th at the Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, NYC.
If your not familiar with Prince's work, I highly suggest you start your research now...cause if there's one living American artist working today that's worth knowing about it's this guy. First of all, the show is a total blockbuster (and not in the cheesy Hollywood movie style sense of the word)...it's just massive and beaming and touching and sad and punk and angry and dangerous and well, just damn exciting! It's the real deal folks, and in an art world that's more and more often fraught with fancy packages delivering empty promises, this show is most definitely a welcome relief.
To go into detail about the massive amount of works shown here would be futile, but let's just say the following subjects are covered: Jokes, Gangs, Monster Trucks, Muscle Cars, Bikers, Celebrities, Pulp Fiction, Heavy Metal, Politicians, Products, Protest, Cowboys, Girlfriends, Nurses, Barren Landscapes and the Industrial Wasteland to name a few.
Basically, it's America...in all its glorious excess and pitiful decay. It makes you love the place and feel sorry for it at the same time, yet left me inspired and alive and happy that art exists in this world. It's the real reason I ended up in New York. Thanks Richard, I needed that.
Richard Prince: Spiritual America” continues through Jan. 9th at the Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, NYC.
posted by Aaron Rose at 9:24 PM
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If your not familiar with Prince's work, I highly suggest you start your research now...
Perhaps the Richard Prince episode of 'Art Talk' on VBS could be a good starting point?
there is also a panel discussion at the museum this tuesday that Prince and others will be on
shit is banannas!
that last one is my favorite! such a classic shot of museum goers.
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