On Saturday we visited the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, in La Jolla. It was a beautiful day and it was fun to see the interesting contemporary art. They had a special exhibit called "Laugh-In, Art, Comedy, Performance. Twenty artists featured in the exhibit make use of the strategies of stand-up comedy. The program states that stand-up offers a model of audience engagement, one that not only captures attention and entertains, but that also opens onto a more direct and perhaps intimate conversation. Most of these works were on video so I can not represent them here.
I also took pictures from their permanent exhibit. Here is a sample of what I saw:
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| "About Women" 1965-1966 by John Altoon, American, 1925-1969, color lithograph |
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| "System of iconography - Plug, Mouse, Good Humor, Lipstick, Switches," 1970 by Claes Oldenburg, American, born 1929, offset lithograph |
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| "Untitled," 1963 by James Kelly, American, born 1913, color lithograph |
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| "Pacific Mutual Life Building with Palm Trees," 1964 by David Hockney, English, 1937, lithograph |
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| "Colossal Baked Potato in Landscape," 1972 by Claes Oldenbury, lithograph |
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| "Green Hornet," 1963 by James Kelley, color lithograph |
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| "Flight Over India," 1963 by James Kelly, color lithograph |
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| "Nightshade," 1963 by James Kelly, color lithograph |
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| View from museum window |
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| "Pleasure Point," 2006 by Nancy Rubins, American, born 1952, nautical vessels, stainless steel. |
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| "Standing Juchiteca," 1966 by Francisco Zuniga, Mexican born Costa Rica, 1912-1998, bronze |
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| "Big Ganesh," 1998 by Niki De Saint Phalle, French 1930-2002 |
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