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June 21, 2005
"The Art of Sport" or "What To Do With Your Old Baseball Trophies"
I admit it. When Noel turns on an NBA game and rhapsodizes about the art of pure basketball, I sometimes pull out my watercolors.
But the current exhibit, “Sports,” at the Socrates Sculpture Garden in Long Island, NY, could meld our worlds together. The show, curated by Alyson Baker and Robyn Donohue, serves up a surprisingly nostalgic and personal perspective on sports. The focus is less on the extreme professional athlete and more on the you-that-won-the-Little-League-championship-trophy or the you-that-is-a-rapid-Packers-fan. Question if you will the merits of conceptual performance art, but you can't deny that these "projects" have a certain sympathy and an appealing quirkiness about them.
You might also want to check out Lee Walton's other projects and learn about his deeply passionate relationship with the little red ball. You can also help poor Tim Laun so that he can watch all Brett Favre, all the time.
Meanwhile, I'll be beginning my first Jock Art project: eat a piece of sushi every time fellow Asian Hideki Matsui strikes out.
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Edit 09:34 am: Fixed silly links.
Art | By elissa | 09:05 AM
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