If you’ve ever read my “about” page, which likely dissuaded your continued interest in my blog (should I say I’m a 30-something for credibility?), you’ll know I was once on the fence between graduate school for public policy and art history.  Knowing what I know now, I should have gone straight to law school and never looked back.  But, in haste, I ended up at the London School of Economics.

It seems LSE has gotten some religion on public space (it’s not a very attractive campus), and commissioned San Francisco-based artist Michael Brown to create a super cool piece of public sculpture out of blue LED lights that literally reflects the research going on inside the library.  Online database searches and the titles of books being checked in and out of the building are displayed– sort of like a muddled, real-time Jenny Holzer sculpture.  Such a cool idea.  Learn more details from the press release here and a check out a YouTube video of the piece in action here.

I’d love to do something like this for my blog, but the search “amateur ass” would unfortunately come up all too often.

Jenny Holzer‘s Protect Protect exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art is guarded with hawk-like security– it took sneaky iPhone work to take this quick detail shot of her 2008 piece Purple.  The bright, happy colors are in sharp contrast to the seriousness of the scrolling text; much of the language in the exhibit is lifted from declassified U.S. government documents from the Iraq war, including internal memos, interrogation transcripts and even coroner reports of captives dying during beatings.  Needless to say, heavy stuff for a beautiful weekend here in NYC.  Oh yeah, and look up “lustmord.”

Note to artist: my friend Mikey and I suggest a slip ‘n slide be installed underneath this work.

Super glad I was able to see this before it closed.  For those who missed it, here’s the New York Times review accompanied by a slide-show containing non-degenerate (read: my) photography.