this is what LA gets as its public art most of the time….. Oh well… at least its bright even though it looks like the start of a high school friendship bracelet…
Choi Jeong-Hwa Welcome 2009
You know how I have been really upset about the lack of discourse surrounding this over-the-top piece at LACMA? Well, who else but my favorite, Christopher Knight of the LA Times, to answer my plee:
A decade ago, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl famously coined the term “festival art” for this 1990s development. LACMA repeats it out on Wilshire Boulevard with Choi Jeong-Hwa’s party-bunting of red, yellow and blue ribbons gift-wrapping the Ahmanson Building. Titled “Welcome,” Choi’s installation is a decorative adornment as fitting for a Hyundai showroom as for an art museum. via…
