03/03/08
Text: Scott Indrisek
Photographers: Thomas Shelley
Certain things just go well together. Peanut butter and jelly. Sex and drugs. Also: high art, electro, gallons of free rum, and a museum-full of beautiful people wearing bright colors and gyrating against each other until the wee hours of the morning. The hipper-by-the-day Museum of Modern Art brought these disparate elements together over the weekend with the newest installment of their PopRally series.
The occasion was MoMA's brand new exhibition, “Color Chart,” which is based around ‘ready-made’ and industrial concepts of color—think paint chips and color wheels. Anthem sobered up enough to stagger through the brightly-lit gallery on the 6th floor, and we can assure you that Dan Flavin’s neon, Damien Hirst’s dots and some other art world luminaries explorations of pigment and palette were all there. (Security guards wouldn’t let us take our drinks—or a camera—into the room. We were thirsty, so it was a quick visit. We promise to return sometime soon to soak up the full effect of the work).
Downstairs, kids were playing Twister on the 2nd floor and Juan Maclean and Holy Ghost were DJing along with DFA labelmates in the atrium. (The DJ booth itself sat atop a gigantic Jim Lambie colored-tape-on-the-floor piece, which Anthem had observed MoMA staffers hand-assembling a week prior. Or maybe they were unpaid interns. Thanks, interns!) Starr African Rum flowed all night long—it comes in a sexy, triangular red bottle, and we definitely wouldn’t mind being sent a few free cases. (Hint, hint). All in all, more than enough bang for your 20 bucks. PopRally continues this month on March 14th over at P.S.1 in Long Island City, where they’re hosting WACK!, the acclaimed survey of feminist art. Click here for more info.
View all of Thomas Shelley's photos at Flickr.
