Art Institute of Chicago in June 2023. “Pat Hearn” by Andy Warhol (1985). Sir, you can look away, but you can’t un-see. GeorgesSeurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” (1884-86) always draws a Sunday crowd.Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA)” had candies first piled in 1991. They are surely stale by now. Had I not seen it before, I might have thought the figure one of Duane Hanson’s life-like sculptures (of Ross!). But there was a more simple explanation: museum workers sometimes crave a small snack. Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago from June 2023. My alternate title here is “Beauty’s in the Eye”
Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.
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