The Untitled: Final Fridays events at the Denver Art Museum are history. They are being replaced by Untitled: Creative Fusions, which will take place quarterly (the last Fridays of January, April, July, and October). I suspect that the change is due to the drop in attendance at these events last year, which I myself blame on the end of the free buffet table. Art is so much more inspiring when combined with free food. In any case, I did happen to visit the DAM last week, and as expected, there was very little new to see. One exception was "Phantom Canyon, A Digital Circuit," which consists of 15 digital artworks on display in the lobby areas. One of these "artworks" is titled "Angel," by British artist Mark Wallinger, in front of which which I posed in the above photograph. The description on the wall plaque says that this video shows Wallinger as his "alter ego," Blind Faith, walking backwards on the escalator at the Angel Underground Station in London, speaking the beginning of the Book of John backwards. The video is then reversed to make it appear that Wallinger is walking forward and speaking normally. The Denver Art Museum (The DAM) probably spent a small fortune acquiring this piece. You think they would be able to afford a monthly buffet table if they can spend good money on something like this, but that is just my opinion. The correct one, of course, but who am I to say?
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