Saturday, January 4David Hammons at Ace Gallery, New York City
Ace Gallery is currently the best date spot in Manhattan.
I phoned my lover in the middle of the weekday to meet me on the corner of Spring and Hudson. He didn't know where we were going. It was raining really hard. He had no umbrella, and was remarkably uncranky about standing in the rain waiting for me.
I took him by the hand and led him into the low and wide brick building. A woman at a desk in the lobby handed us two tiny plastic things. We opened the doors to the gallery. It was semi-dark. The door very slowly closed behind us, and it got darker and darker.
When you pressed the little plastic things they lit up with a great cobalt blue LED.
We were completely alone in room after room of thousands of square feet of space. It rained invisibly on a skylight dozens of feet above our heads. We made out a little in the dark. We used the lights to try to give each other acid flashbacks. No one jumped out at us. No one was skulking in the corners. We roamed and roamed, all alone. It was sense-enhancing and relaxing at the same time. I would like to go on a Saturday afternoon, and find the gallery full of people, like tiny cold toxic fireflies.
Eventually, we got hungry. So we left.
David Hammons is a contemporary artist known for his biting and darkly playful conceptual works on race and art.
On view, as it were, until February 1, 2003. Ace Gallery, 275 Hudson Street. ⊕
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thanks for spending a moment with me. perhaps you'd enjoy seeing who i see:
my girl gang will totally cut you:
→blaise →elizabeth →jennie →jonno →lance →leslie →meg →philo
gangsters from the block:
→aaron →anil →ariel →ernie →faustus →lisa →lockhart →mom →nick →richard →steve
join me for a meeting in town hall:
→gothamist →the morning news →world new york
clock some mofos who can write:
→alison →bob →dana →dong resin →mary →matthew →michael →mimi →skot
about this site:
©2000-2003, choire sicha. i use blogger for posting automation. the rest is handcoded by my squirrels. i am hosted by kinetic medium. this page is validating css.
