A performance in Queens, drew a very different audience and packed a punch to the gut, rather than the wallet.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

 In Venice, collectors ogled and Instagrammed their way through Damien Hirst’s splash back into the center of art-world attention—a massive, for-sale museum show spanning François Pinault’s Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, where a single, barnacled sculpture can reportedly run you north of $5 million. A performance in Queens, however, drew a very different audience—the parents, friends, and children of some 350 members of the community that took the stage—and packed a punch to the gut, rather than the wallet.

 

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Source Name: 
Artsy Editorial
Author Name: 
Alexandre Forbes