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Sunday, September 3, 2017

Ana Pellicer at House of Gaga


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Huge jewelry, what could be better, smarter? The idea is almost psychotically perfect, magnificent. Bejewel the architecture, placed around the institution's neck, in the courtyard, what all those modernist objects implicitly stood as, pearls for a building, softening stark verticality. These were made to adorn the Statue of Liberty, but sensibly they fit anywhere, fill the same function, there's been a rise in jewelry/art crossovers, in the youth of today, and its because maybe we realize it's no different.


See too: Lucy Skaer at MRAC,  Amanda Ross-Ho at The ApproachK.r.m. Mooney at Pied-á-terre