Our own MasterCard Museum of Contemporary Art
Just yesterday, taking my overworked laptop into NorthPark's new Apple Store for an adjustment by one of the geniuses (what their t-shirts say and rightly earned), I was reminded. How remarkable is it that such significant contemporary art would be on display here? In a shopping center for crying out loud.
Ya got your Neiman-Marcus, your Barneys of New York, your "Five Hammering Men", 1982, Jonathan Borofsky. (Painted wood with steel, aluminum, foam, Bondo, and electric motors. Each 175 x 72 x 6 inches.)
Even the semi-pro shopping princesses of Dallas were enough in awe of these 14-foot, kinetic colossi to walk around instead of between them. But I relished the experience. A few minutes later, just an arm's length from one of Antony Gormley's "Three Places", I was particularly aware of the absence of "Museum Guard Giving Evil Eye".
("Ad Astra" [2005], Mark di Suvero. Photo courtesy of NorthPark Center)
And note these other selected works from the collection, the likes of which you might do well to see on any Manhattan Saturday afternoon (not to mention with free parking. It's a shopping center for crying out loud.):
"Ads" (1985), Andy Warhol
"Ad Astra" (2005), Mark di Suvero (big red thing in picture above)
"Washington Island Gadwall (Exotic Birds)" (1980–81), Frank Stella
"Waves" (1985–89), Frank Stella
"20 elements" (2004-2005), Joel Shapiro
"F-111" (1974), James Rosenquist
"Dallas Land Canal and Hillside" (1971–72), Beverly Pepper
"A Surrounded Figure (Assediato)" (1983), Mimmo Paladino
"Corridor Pin, Blue" (1999), Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
"Rediscovered King" (1987), Alain Kirili
"Large Leaping Hare" (1982), Barry Flanagan
"The Field of the Cloth of Gold" (1987–1988), Jim Dine
"The Maeght Scarves"
Valerio Adami (1971), Marc Chagall (1958), Raoul Ubac (1964) and Pierre Tal Cott (1962)
NorthPark Center is located on US 75 between I-635 and I-30, at Northwest Highway.
