Hole in the ...???

So. She cut a hole in the ceiling, and I'd thought it was supposed to be in the floor. I'd had this terrific idea (preconception?) that she'd smashed through the floor, there'd be a guard rail, and you could see people circulate in the galleries below. FAT CHANCE. There's a timid, well-behaved slice in the ceiling. You gaze up, that's it. Tidy polygons of white material (plaster, hmmm?) are carefully arranged on the floor. In a measly 10 ft. ceilinged gallery. Damn. Should she need help smashing through a floor, I'd be glad to offer my services. Her work "furnishes", according to the wall notes, "a physical opportunity, and a metaphor, for the play of the imagination." This is New York. We want more.

Monika Sosnowska: The Hole
MoMA, "Out of Time", on the second floor
through Nov. 27

ps. The equivalent if being served foam. Cool, but still foam.



These drawings snap, crackle and pop. Exploded gunpowder on paper. Vivacious and alive and oddly sepia-colored. He sandwiched the fireworks between the two vast sheets and let fly. Two arcs. Mirrored but different. Call it the best application of detonation, or of its after-effects.

Cai Guo Qiang, Drawing for Transient Rainbow
MoMA, "Out of Time", on the second floor
through Nov. 27