Greenpoint, October, 2015

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Legging It

From The Nurse and the Hijackers (1977)
Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's "Selves" is at the Wallach Gallery at Columbia University. Reader, if you are a fan of Florence Nightingale, life-size cardboard cut-outs, nurses, paper dolls, makeup, ballet, soap operas, 1970s sky-jackings, or any combination of the above, you must attend. Here is the artist as the King of Solana Beach, a project from 1974. Walking amongst his (sic) subjects.


Solana Beach is a small kingdom but a natural kingdom for no kingdom should extend any further than its king can comfortably walk on any given day. My kingdom is the right size for my short legs.


See more from the series here (oddly) on this Washington University in St. Louis site.

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