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Thread Number: 27040
Jeff Koons Vacuums at the Whitney Museum NYC |
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| Post# 302443 10/19/2014 at 22:31 (3,468 days old) by Stricklybojack (Southern California) | ||
Last day for the Koons exhibit so I made the trip uptown on the 6 train.
Not too happy with the pics, but the fluorescents in the exhibits played havoc with my iphone. Overheard a viewer comment on the, "sexually provocative" appearance of of the machines, "lying next to each other like that." CLICK HERE TO GO TO Stricklybojack's LINK This post was last edited 10/19/2014 at 22:51 | ||
| Post# 302448 , Reply# 1 10/19/2014 at 22:34 (3,468 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.) | ||
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| Post# 302454 , Reply# 2 10/19/2014 at 22:43 (3,468 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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| Post# 302456 , Reply# 3 10/19/2014 at 22:50 (3,468 days old) by Marks_here (_._) | ||
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| Post# 302457 , Reply# 4 10/19/2014 at 22:56 (3,468 days old) by stricklybojack (Southern California) | ||
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Info about:
Another example is The New, a series of vacuum-cleaners, often selected for brand names that appealed to the artist, which he had mounted in illuminated Perspex boxes. Koons first exhibited these pieces in the window of the New Museum in New York in 1980. He chose a limited combination of vacuum cleaners and arranged them in cabinets accordingly, juxtaposing the verticality of the upright cleaners with the squat cylinders of the "Shelton Wet/Dry drum" cleaners. At the museum, the machines were displayed as if in a showroom, and oriented around a central red fluorescent lightbox with just the words "The New" written on it as if it were announcing some new concept or marketing brand.
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| Post# 302462 , Reply# 5 10/19/2014 at 23:49 (3,468 days old) by Marks_here (_._) | ||
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| Post# 302470 , Reply# 6 10/20/2014 at 06:03 (3,468 days old) by vintagevaclover (Athens, GA) | ||
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| Post# 302480 , Reply# 8 10/20/2014 at 10:33 (3,468 days old) by stricklybojack (Southern California) | ||
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Nice..
much better pics Fred.
The line was especially long on the last day, around the block and up another 100 yards. I was lucky as someone leaving gave me their old admittance sticker so i skipped the line. Before you call me a scofflaw know that I would have entered for free anyway as i have a family pass. So more the rapscallion than scallywag i be... | ||
| Post# 302496 , Reply# 9 10/20/2014 at 15:04 (3,467 days old) by alexb1186 (Ferguson/St. Louis, MO) | ||
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Post# 302552 , Reply# 10 10/21/2014 at 02:21 (3,467 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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The flourescent bulbs may cause the plastic above the lamps to yellow before any damage is done to the vacuums. | ||
| Post# 302595 , Reply# 11 10/21/2014 at 17:41 (3,466 days old) by constellation86 (Roy, UT) | ||
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Very cool to see the vintage Hoovers. But I can't call it art. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Nicholas | ||
| Post# 302701 , Reply# 12 10/22/2014 at 12:36 (3,466 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR) | ||
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