Dead Letters to Lost Worlds
April 24th, 2005

An Interview with Avant-Pop Master Mayo Thompson of Red Krayola

An Interview with Avant-Pop Master Mayo Thompson of Red Krayola
Tyra Banks searches for America's next top model, Paula Abdul searches for America's next idol, and art dealer Jeffrey Deitch is searching for America's next art star. Huh? I didn't know that America had art stars!
A few numbers to serve as a final note to the unstoppable coverage of Christo's The Gates:
The greatest problem that Western museums face is that they are, as one of my SAIC professors described, a guilty pleasure. Re-opening this fall is the de Young Museum's snazzy new Swiss-designed building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

With the success and/or undeserved publicity surrounding Jeanne-Claude's and Christo's 16-day exhibition of The Gates in New York's own Central Park, do you ever wonder what kind of life you would lead if you were a bona fide public artist, working outside the gallery circles?

While last February saw Central Park packed with an estimated four million visitors for Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates", the saffron structures were certainly not the only art activity happening in New York City this winter.
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