@freerangepigeon: Mom, the lady’s crying about art again Works for further reading (or hating) 1) Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty Six Attempts), John Baldessari 2) Life of a Memory, Lindsay Smith 3) (untitled) Perfect Lovers, Felix Gonzalez Torres #art #contemporaryart

Ace :

My favorite piece of contemporary art is Portrait of Ross, so seeing their clocks really hit me:')

Ghost :

The perfect lovers 🕙🕙 😭😭😭😭

gobbleknoll :

As an art history major, I think museums do a terrible job at providing detail and context where it would really add to the enjoyment of the piece.

KingKat :

NO BECAUSE THE WAY WE CAN LOOK AT THE CYCLES OF GRIEF IF WE IMAGINE ONE CLOCK'S BATTERIES WENT FLAT. THE OTHER CLOCK CONTINUES ON ITS JOURNEY ALONE, YES; BUT IT WILL FOREVER COME BACK, EVEN JUST FOR A MOMENT, TO THE TIME WHEN THEY WERE TOGETHER

lachlanbridge6 :

“Untitled”

Jolene 🖤💀 :

If nothing else, understanding it helps you hate it in a ✨smart✨ way

Goblin4Coin :

I love silly af art pieces. "Throwing 3 balls in the air to make a straight line (best of 36 attempts)" made my morning

El :

as a fiber artist, for "Life of a Memory," if the yarn is not dyed after it was knitted my guess is that the artist might have dyed the first one and replicated the second one from memory. Regardless of methodology, what I immediately noticed is that both are dyed the same exact way (same colors on the same rows) but there's a very minor variance between them, almost like its saying that as a memory lives, it also changes. we forget things and remember others. the sharpness of the image declines as we struggle with the fine details. The first one is the memory in its original form and the second is the way you remember it.

lettuce_and_pb :

It took me a long time to decouple the idea of "art" from the idea of "decor." That I can appreciate something and not want it hanging in my house.

Nate Krogel :

one of my favorite pieces. at the 9-11 museum, hundreds of people were asked to recreate the color of the sky from that morning. each one is slightly different, because everyone's memory is slightly different and sees color a little different.

skyler :

there's a really beautiful letter Felix wrote to Ross before he died about the work

Laurel Holyoak 🖤💛❤️ :

"perfect lovers" is incredible. as a person who experienced the AIDS crisis first hand, I'm just weeping.

Ryan :

I thought the first pictures were just captured power line warning balls from different angles so the title changes a lot!

Mandy :

I do a lot of craft hobbies, so I find myself considering the materials and processes used even if the content or intentions aren't immediately clear to me.

A Redo :

this is why I get so irrationally annoyed when a piece of art is untitled

Aster :

jenn23472 :

I WANT the context!! and museums do a terrible job explaining that on the plaques. I wish they had better explanations

tealeafthesis :

This was a good watch, but also the irony in trying to send people who don’t want to have to find the context in a piece of art to a part 2 is hysterical

Jordan Ribbans :

I hated art and decided to play a pretentious game of "let's try and come up with the most ridiculous symbolism in each piece" and then after a while I was like "I get it now"

Viviana :

Now I’m crying over clocks

Charly :

My Problem is you dont know the Story about much pieces. And only a title mostly doesnt help, but the Story bwhing it. But most Museums dont Provider further inside

Jon :

I didn’t expect to cry looking at two clocks but here we are

Tezhefas :

That first one like actually resonated hard with me. Not sure if it’s because I’m an engineer and I really love the intersection of physics and art or if there was something else, but I was taken aback by how much it meant to me as soon as you read the title.

Elizabeth Pearce :

It's a common practice in yarn arts to take yarn from an old project and use it in a new one. I always think of a person using yarn from a sweater made by a loved one to make something for a new love (like a child or friend). The love in the fiber lives on. The lines between the pieces will connect them for eternity.

Chelsea :

What breaks me on the clocks is the one being off by the smallest millisecond