All I can say tonight are
these two things:
I wonder if anyone else in town noticed the art inside some kind of ground floor building (with huge windows) about a 1/2 block north of P on 14th street….It was really fantastic, huge huge heads on their sides in the windows that I couldn’t help but notice, even flying by on my bike. Otherworldly and reminding me of something that I can’t put my finger on. Definitely said something to me about how some art, some public-style art, can be amazingly effective. They’re gone now, though, but apparently the gallery that was in charge of those heads is putting something else in soon. I can’t imagine it’ll be as good, though. My other thought: maybe art (esp dance) in europe is more interesting, more thoughtful and less experimental for the sake of being experimental, and less active for the sake of just being active, b/c the artists are actually able to make a living making art, and therefore tend to be older (rather than dropping out at some point to make real money or give up and have a family)? What a surprise that age would make a difference….
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[…] i saw this article in the washington post while looking at reviews for the fringe: “The Art of Gratuitous Praise: Compliment Machine Gives Passersby Pats on the Back”. it’s about a machine on 14th street that gives out automatic compliments as people pass by. somehow it interested me, and i explored further. turns out it’s part of SiteProjects DC, a project curated by the corcoran that’s been going on for the past month and a half on different parts of 14th street. i wish i’d known about it earlier! and i wonder if the amazing huge heads that were in a 14th street storefront window some months ago (and which i wrote about here) were also somehow part of that project, or inspired it. […]
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