Saturday, January 02, 2016
Rock and a hard place
Today, a documentary about the installation of the big rock at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
It is interesting enough but not something you just have to see.
It is a rock after all. Not even unique. It is from a quarry just over the hill from us in Riverside CA so that is interesting.
This is all in the category of what I think of as practical jokes played on the public by artists who are very skillful at turning the every-day into a special event.
There is nothing wrong with that. After all, an oil painting is also a fake thing. Not real. Just paint on canvas or something else.
There are centuries of debate here and I am poorly qualified to go much further.
Sadly, there was a small fault in the last part of the disc and I missed the end. Let me put it this way. I am not going to re-order the disc so I can see the last part of the film.
A 3 out of Netflix5.
Labels: films, geology, museums
