I’ll get serious about the installation transformations of the LA-to-Brooklyn Murakami show in a bit. But first, art-lings, this report from last night’s Kanye West Fest.
From today’s Gothamist blog comes the following news flash: “Murakami Gala at Brooklyn Museum Eclipsed by [Bruce] Ratner Protest.” The real estate developer, now faltering in his attempt to install a collection of Frank Gehry buildings at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards, was the gala’s honoree. (Vuitton’s artistic director, Marc Jacobs, had assumed that role at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s gala for its show.) The protesters are opposed to the plans for Atlantic Yards, as well as to the “residential development proposed for a 22-acre site just a stone’s throw from the museum,” according to Gothamist.
But enough politics. Let’s go to the photos at the bottom of Gothamist’s post. Don’t miss the shot of the wacky “Louis Vuitton ‘anti-counterfeit’ installation outside the Brooklyn Museum, featuring authentic Vuitton goods.”
Talk about high/low! Memo to my anonymous curatorial correspondent, who quipped that the museum “should organize all the
counterfeiters from Canal Street to set up just outside the show”—You (almost) got it right!
And in very tenuously related news—Murakami has been called (not by me) the Japanese Warhol. But why settle for the copy when you can have the real thing? If you want to live in one of two former New York homes of the real Warhol, now you can. (Just bring mega-millions to the closing.)