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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Dali and SpongeBob: Surreal and Unreal
Posted by Steve
Continuing our mini-theme of Summer art events in New York, two you can't afford to miss are the Museum of Modern Art's
Dali: Painting and Film
and Steve Powers'
Waterboard Thrill Ride
.
One is surreal and the other unreal (
or is it?
). Can you guess which? The MoMA exhibition is a survey of Dali's
romp through cinema
, featuring paintings, sketches, and original scripts, as well as large screen projections of his most bizarre imaginings, including the
torturous scene
from "
Un Chien Andalou
" and the nightmarish fantasies in Alfred Hitchcock's "
Spellbound
." For Powers' spectacle, he recreated a Guantanamo Bay-style waterboarding torture scene using robots in New York's Coney Island. (The piece will soon move to the
Park Avenue Armory
for the
Democracy in America
exhibition). At the "
Waterboard Thrill Ride
," visitors are charged a dollar to look through a barred window while a hooded robot pours water into the face of an orange jumpsuit-wearing robot. Outside, a sign shows SpongeBob (
isn't he supposed to be gay?
) SquarePants saying "It don't GITMO better!" See a video
here
.
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8/13/2008 8:07:00 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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