I’m old enough to vaguely recall a TV special about the premiere of LACMA back in 1965. There was a segment that featured actress/comedienne Carol Channing, who was shown standing near “Hello Girls.” The humor of the setup was that, as she was doing her dialogue, she had to keep looking nervously over her shoulder because of the threat of her getting drenched with water from the water spouts.

And, Donald, I think the current and original metal color of the sculpture’s uprights actually is better aesthetically than your suggestion that they instead be blue, violet or green. Such colors would be rather cheesy.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/05/calder-lacma.html

Such beautiful works inside, such bad lightiing and horrible colored building. White and black trim or dark brown wood would be much better, with better light. For very little money one could present the works in much better ways, $20 mil would take care of all that and more.

Creative art is and always has been about defining humanity, exploring nature, and searching for god. The interconnection of mankind and nature, with colors stimulating a sense of more in Calder’s work fits this definition. A Loco-motive is the very antitheses, its about the individuals greed, vanity, and decadence. Search your souls, for art is made with mind, body and soul, layering philosophy, science and theology in musical ways, of melody, harmony and rhythm. Hello girls does this. Can you really with a straight face, open mind and honest soul claim a loco-motive does the same thing?

Shame.

art collegia delenda est

Now that you’ve updated the sculpture’s water system, how about updating Hello Girls‘ theme?

Think hot Japanese tourists in white T-shirts splashing through it.

XXXO