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...however, Mudam may have a winner, a show that does justice to its elegant new quarters and tickles the imagination as well. The exhibition, open until May 7, features that rarest of commodities, a Luxembourg-born artist: Michel Majerus, who in an intense, tragically shortened career fused Pop, Minimalism and other genres with a punk sense of fun. Majerus was more a painter than a video or installation artist, so most of the 250 works in the show are canvases - big ones, some the size of billboards, all throbbing with color, text and images purloined from comic books and advertising...
...delight in believing in a world where anyone that works hard enough can make it. It’s easy to see it that way from where we stand. All around us there are success stories of people overcoming overwhelming odds. Although these concepts can pop up in multiple contexts, the paradigmatic example is the 19th century American author, Horatio Alger, and his famous rags-to-riches stories. The popularity of this theme is exemplified by Alger’s success and continues to be the driving force in the concept of the American Dream...
...expects it. "Young Londoners are used to everything around them changing quickly. They've grown up with the rave scene, and their mentality is to try new things." Waddington says, "It's all about the moment. Things become 'so yesterday,' 'so over' really fast. The great thing about a pop-up is it doesn't have time to go out of fashion." The pair are investigating building restaurants in shipping containers that can be attached to events, including London's Frieze art fair...
...pop-up phenomenon, which started among retailers like Comme des Garçons and Target, has migrated to the art scene. Works by Banksy, a graffiti artist, are now so acclaimed that residents of London neighborhoods want to keep them as local attractions. Banksy was among those artists contributing to a one-month-only gallery on Oxford Street in December that proved so popular, security had to be hired to control the line waiting...
...fact that people love pop-ups means things intended to be ephemeral might return. Although every last scrap of the Reindeer?from the private dining log cabins to the cups and saucers?was sold off, Waddington and Flack are already being asked about next year and are talking about a '50s-theme Christmas pop-up, this time in Los Angeles...