Hrag Vartanian

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  So true, so true…
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From Borofsky’s website:

…Ballerina Clown was fabricated in 1989 out of aluminum, steel, fiberglass and an electric motor that activates the extended kicking leg….This sculpture is an accommodation or resolution of opposites in one. Not only does this image bring the male and female together into one figure, but also, two opposite types of performers are represented: the formal classical ballet dancer and the traditional street performer…this public sculpture pushes the envelope in “taste”, but if you have ever walked the Venice Boardwalk on a Sunday afternoon, you might understand why this figure is right at home.

Here’s another view of the dancing beauty.

• Time - By A Waterfall
  Lacayo’s has a wonderfully clear perspective on Olafur Eliasson’s new spectacle: “The Waterfalls draw on everything from Baroque fountains and the Hudson River School of painting to the shock displacements of Surrealism.”
  (tags: art nyc brooklyn)

I saw this on a van on the way to downtown LA:

Here’s the original at the Musée d’Orsay…how much do you wanna bet, it ain’t licensed?

I’ve been trying to figure out what the company was been trying to communicate by using this image and then decided I shouldn’t try to read into it to much though some grad student could probably have a field day.