Tonight, a Russian Police choir sang the pop song “Get Lucky.” Either some are uncomfortable smiling in public, which might not appear dignified, or they do not know what smiling is. Your guess is as good as mine. Better video can be found here.
Earlier this week, two members of Pussy Riot appeared on the Colbert Report having recently been released from jail in Russia. They were fantastic. Better quality video here.
I think you could also categorize this as: “things you find in the library when you should be working on your thesis.” That aside, I thought this was a striking formal comparison between Genzken’s and Mehic’s work, although certainly serendipitous rather than evidence of a connection between the contemporary German artist and the older Yugoslavian aartist. Having recently seen the Genzken show at MoMA though, it popped out at me.
Isa Genzken’s building representing Berlin’s buildings made by leaning colored glass panes at MoMA’s current Isa Genzken: Retrospective. Part of her 2004 series “New Buildings for Berlin.”
Vasa-Velizar Mehic’s Bouquet (1970) in the Belgrade Museum of Contemporary Art, found in a book in the library called The Museums of Yugoslavia, which dates it pretty clearly.
