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Taken from the west side of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science @ sunset 12.17.08. Assisted by Craig Ericson |
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Greer Lankton's It's all about ME, Not You was first shown in 1996. Unfortunately, Greer passed away after the exhibit opening and when the show closed, we put the piece in storage. Now, thanks to the generosity of the Lankton family, it has been donated to the Mattress Factory for permanent display. Open a tall door and pass through a narrow alley beside a "white trash" house. It is clad in white siding with old windows and an astroturf patio littered with fall leaves. Inside, Greer Lankton recreated the Chicago apartment where she lived and worked. The walls are painted in deep colors. Stars cover the ceiling. The room is inhabited by the dolls and figures Lankton made during the course of her life – Raggedy Anns, one of whom is anorexic, a morphine addict on a cot surrounded by pill bottles. Throughout the room are very personal shrines Lankton has created, to Patti Smith, Candy Darling, to Jesus, and many others to the artist herself. Several of Lankton's figures were included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial and the 1995 Venice Biennale, but she never before had the opportunity to create a large-scale installation. Much of her work is clearly autobiographical, revealing her obsession with her own body. Born male, she became female at the age of 21. Her work has been described by critic Holland Cotter as "art of superbly disciplined and unusually distressing beauty." Lankton wanted to recreate her apartment in an ideal form, designing an environment of "artificial nature/total indulgence," filled with "dolls engrossed in glamour and self-abuse." Like the artist herself, Lankton's dolls and environments possess a disarming mix of innocence and decadence, hope and pathos. She said her work was "all about me," reflecting her life as an artist, a transsexual and a drug addict. But beyond this, from her position as an outsider, Lankton eloquently explored and questioned accepted norms of gender and sexuality, as well as the powerful imagery of popular culture and consumerism. It is tempting to think that Lankton knew her installation at the Mattress Factory was her last, filling the space with a retrospective selection of her beloved dolls and everything that was most meaningful to her. |
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in McMinnville, OR
with the new IMAX and Space Museum buildings on the right (which are not yet in the Google Earth satellite picture data base) |
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Pterosaur view of Dinosaurs in Their Time Jurassic sauropods. |
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Hangar 3 of the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum at Creve Coeur Airport (1H0), a hidden treasure of St. Louis, MO. Many of these vintage aircraft are in flying condition. Hangar tours ($10, weekends) are a must for plane fans anywhere near the St. Louis area.
http://www.historicaircraftrestorationmuseum.org/ |
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Cold War Aircraft display, at the National Museum of the Air Force (formally the Air Force Museum) at Wright Patterson AFB (WPAFB), in Dayton Ohio.
Summer 2009. Help me identify the planes in this photo. |
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The front facade shows its Beaux Arts architectural style.
It is the second largest art museum in New York City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum Gigapan beta notes: GigaPan Stitcher version 0.4.2733 (Macintosh) Panorama size: 143 megapixels (21137 x 6803 pixels) Input images: 40 (10 columns by 4 rows) Field of view: 91.5 degrees wide by 29.5 degrees high (top=25.5, bottom=-4.0) Original image properties: Camera make: Panasonic Camera model: DMC-LX2 Image size: 3568x2376 (8.5 megapixels) Aperture: f/8 Exposure time: 0.0125 ISO: 100 Focal length (35mm equiv.): 112mm White balance: Shade Exposure mode: manual Raw converter to Jpeg: PS/CS3 ACR Horizontal overlap: 44.8 to 49.8 percent Vertical overlap: 36.6 to 46.3 percent Computer stats: 4096 MB RAM, 8 CPUs Total time 13:07 (0:19 per picture) Alignment: 1:23, Projection: 1:52, Blending: 9:51 |
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USS Midway aircraft carrier, decommissioned in 1992, now a floating museum in San Diego harbor.
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This sperm whale skeleton is on display in the Whaling Museum of the Nantucket Historical Association. It came from a 46 foot long bull sperm whale that beached on Jan 1, 1998 at Sconset's Low Beach.
Many Nantucketers participated in the messy process of extracting and preparing the bones for display. Tools from the NHA's collection of whaling implements were used in this process and found to work remarkably well. The museum shows a movie about this project regularly. Read more about the Whaling Museum here: http://www.nha.org/history/hn/HNwhalingmuseum.html More on sperm whales here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale This image made with the permission of the museum and the kind assistance of museum staff. |