Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Visual Arts Ten Things to Know about the High Museum's "Fast Forward"
Posted by Andrew Alexander @AndrewAWriter on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM
- Courtesy MoMA
- HAVE A BALL: Roy Lichtenstein's "Girl with Ball" is one of the works in the new exhibit "Fast Forward," opening this Saturday at the High Museum.
10. The exhibition covers 100 years of modern art. "Fast Forward" explores the last century in art by displaying key works from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, starting with works created in 1913.
9. Think of it as time travel. The exhibition is divided into five sections: 1913, 1929, 1950, 1961, and 1988. In each section, only works created in that year are displayed. You'll see amazing changes when you walk from room to room, jumping from 1950 to 1961 for instance, seeing the shift from abstract expressionism to pop art all at once. Think of yourself as a time traveler landing in each year and observing the art being created before jumping ahead several decades to take another look around. (And no, you can't grab a work from 1913 and try to sell it in 1988, sorry).
8. The exhibition includes some of the world's great modern masterpieces. Throughout the exhibition you'll find works by the past century's greatest and most famous artists: Picasso, Dali, Matisse, de Kooning, Warhol, O'Keefe, Lichtenstein, Rothko, and many others.
7. Plan to go more than once. There are 105 artists represented and 164 great works of art in the exhibition. If you spend an average of about two minutes with each work, that's five hours of viewing time. More than one visit might be in order, since all this awesome stuff has to go back to New York at the end of the exhibition. See it while it's here.
6. There's a cool iPod Touch. The informative audio tour has been placed on a snazzy, specially-made iPod Touch, which you can use at $4 for members and $6 for non-members
- Courtesy MoMA
- FORWARD MARCH: Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity" is part of the new exhibition.
4. There are lots of movies, too.The High isn't displaying only sculpture and paintings from MoMA, but there's also an independent film series featuring rare films from MoMA's collection. Films will screen on Saturday nights through November and include the rarely-screened Warhol gem Kitchen starring superstar Edie Sedgwick and David Lynch's Eraserhead. For a complete schedule, visit the series site.
3. If you tweet, you have the chance to see the exhibit for free. On Thursday, November 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. the museum is offering free admission for those willing to tweet their impressions of "Fast Forward." For more information or to register for the event, visit the High's "Tweetup" page.
2. Get to know Sarah Sze. It's a pretty formidable task for an artist to be asked to represent the present moment. ("By the way, we're gonna display the past 100 years of the greatest art in the world, and we're ending with you. No pressure.") But Sarah Sze, who was recently awarded the art world's two most prestigious honors, a MacArthur Genius grant and being chosen to represent the US at the 2013 Venice Biennale, is clearly up to the task. Don't miss (well, you can't miss it, really) her enormous installation in the exhibit's final room, utilizing thousands of everyday objects arranged in surprising and often disorienting juxtapositions. Sze lectures about her work at the High on Thursday, October 18, at 7:00 p.m. For more info, visit the High.
1. You have til January 20, 2013. That may sound like a long way away, but it will be here before you know it. Plan your visit now.
- Courtesy MoMA
- A LOT CAN CHANGE IN A HUNDRED YEARS: Jeff Koons' "Pink Panther" is one of the works selected to represent 1988.
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