Today Sarah and I went to the Whitney Museum to see the Summer of Love Exhibit. I read about it on the Subway and thought it sounded awesome. It was! As a student, it only cost 10 dollars and that included free audio tour with music -Austin's own 13 Floor Elevators were one of the artists represented. Sarah and I walked around looking at all the art and played in the coolest Psychedelic "room." It reminded me of this really cool "kid spaces" book from the 1960-70s that I used to read as a kid that mom and I had bought at Goodwill.
My other favorite works from the exhibit:
- Framed LSD squares that looked like sheets of mini stamps. Perforated sheets of paper, the smallest being a tiny one cm by one cm square with a picture of a man fishing. Medium sized was a kid's scene with a rabbit and a turtle (with three squares missing), and the largest a 7 x 7 inch square of squares that were golden pyramids on black paper. I wanted them, they were awesome art!
-A digger dollar.
-"Flower Monster" by Jimmi Hendrix. I didn't even know it was by him and I loved it before looking at the artist name. Even cooler that he had painted it himself. It looked more Asian than psychedelic though.
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