I spent a few hours at the Denver Art Museum yesterday afternoon, and although I must say it made for a very pleasant day, it made me realize that the museum has a lot of very strange art on display. Just one example is Mark Wallinger's Angel, a short video featuring the artist as "Blind Faith," walking in place in front of two escalators at the London Underground's Angel Station and reciting the first 5 verses of the Gospel of St. John over and over again - backwards. I know the theme is spirituality and the work is filled with symbolism, but after finding out that Wallinger lives in London, I suspect that in reality London's notorious weather simply made him go crazy. And understandably so.
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