Wednesday, 11 February 2009

1) Nipples 2) MOMA Ad-Bombs Brooklyn's Top Transit Hub 3) Angel of the South 4) Chinese moral story from Ming Pao


1) Grow up... they are nipples, cows have them, your mum has them.
As if you would turn down a free Picasso if it was given free to your gallery. Not that Christina here has the same energy or artistic quality as Picasso, but find a better excuse to turn down paintings than 'because the nipples might offend viewers.'


2) I have seen ads for museum and gallery visits in public transport systems. But not something like this scale. I bet people from MOMA had more crazier ideas but perhaps was downscaled since the subway is after all a place to facilitate a undisturbed flow of sardines from one place to another.

What I love about it is how
"A few of the works even have audio guides, which can be heard on the stations’ pay phones or downloaded to portable devices."

Congratulations to MOMA efforts. Transport railway systems and government bureaucracies need to have maximum creativity in their space to inspire the public rather than cool, inhuman management risk free space that is clean and boring enough for it to be like airport toilets.

3) A giant horse in Kent is the Angel of the South..... hmmm.... very creative indeed... may I ask whats so special about this sculptural horse?

It's HUGE.... oh... and whatelse?
.... It's HUGE......

I have to say though.. compared to the other competitors, this makes much more sense.. actually the more I thought about this article on "What Does the White Horse Mean?", the more sense it made to me. For me, it is the tie of the Horse to the landscape around it that made the most sense. Afterall this sculptural piece is relating itself with its outdoor surrounding very beautifully.

4) The story of leeching from the wealth of other people and turning into your own.
The difference between Mr. Bill Gates and Mr. Richard Li.

2 comments:

Josekin said...

Sweet. I remember the HK MTR has some art in the Central station as well (between Island line and Tung Chung line) which made me stop and wander... and wonder... for 5 minutes.

Juanjaime said...

better 5 than nothing. You ever pay attention to the ridiculous piano playing they have in MTR or the French Accordion being played over immgration at Chek Lap Kok airport.... I mean why not play Under the Lion Rock Mountain or something that makes Hong Kong, Hong Kong?