Tag: Hockney, David

A Fantasy That Comes With a Price Tag

What happened to fun? In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic. Shouldn’t it also, sometimes, be joyous? The collaborators behind Luna Luna thought so. This was the amusement park staged in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987, where nearly 30 professional artists including Basquiat, Hockney and Dalí designed the rides. […]

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Where the Ferris Wheel Is by Basquiat and the Carousel by Keith Haring

audience report Luna Luna, an art carnival that appeared in Hamburg in 1987, then vanished, has been resurrected in Los Angeles. You can wander there, but the rides are verboten. Text by Lauren Herstik Photographs and Video by Chantal Anderson The lights dimmed and a Ferris wheel designed by Jean-Michel Basquiat began turning in time […]

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