{"id":332,"date":"2011-12-09T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2013-02-14T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:49:58","slug":"weekend-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/weekend-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_333\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mccar50013_1lo-w0ldXJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-333\" title=\"mccar50013_1lo-w0ldXJ\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mccar50013_1lo-w0ldXJ-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mccar50013_1lo-w0ldXJ-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mccar50013_1lo-w0ldXJ.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Snow Cake, 2011 Bronze 243.8 x 134.6 x 182.9 cm \/ 96 x 53 x 72 in<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/paul-mccarthy\">Paul McCarthy<\/a> fans? If so, then you won&#8217;t want to miss this exhibit. With one more week left, McCarthy&#8217;s &#8220;The Dwarves, The Forests&#8221; sculpture collection is worth viewing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hauserwirth.com\/\">Hauser and Wirth<\/a>. It&#8217;s a twisted reinterpretation of the classic fairytale <em>Snow White<\/em> where McCarthy&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">fascination with the aggression and visceral messiness of sculptural process \u2013 cracks and lumps and slop \u2013 as an analogue for physical violence and decay. Their dark sheen calls to mind the black coal of dank mines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This offbeat exhibition falls in line with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timburton.com\/\">Tim Burton&#8217;s<\/a> intriguing and outlandish work. Either way, this showcase is up until Saturday, December 17.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">-Heather Liggins<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_334\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mccar50010_1lo-1zO89C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-334\" title=\"mccar50010_1lo-1zO89C\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mccar50010_1lo-1zO89C-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mccar50010_1lo-1zO89C-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mccar50010_1lo-1zO89C.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Snow Dwarf Head 3, 2011 Bronze 217.8 x 99 x 90.8 cm \/ 85 3\/4 x 39 x 35 3\/4 in<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any Paul McCarthy fans? If so, then you won&#8217;t want to miss this exhibit. With one more week left, McCarthy&#8217;s &#8220;The Dwarves, The Forests&#8221; sculpture collection is worth viewing at Hauser and Wirth. It&#8217;s a twisted reinterpretation of the classic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/weekend-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[324],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Vc1q-5m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artforprogress.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}