It’s a foliage plant disguised as a flowering plant disguised as a foliage plant disgui… Oooo, my head is swimming! It’s like Victor/Victoria with chlorophyll. All these plants that look like one thing but act like another all together, it’s beyond gender-bender and headed straight for anthocyanin-androgeny. But unlike drag queens these plants don’t scare me. Rather instead they are welcome additions to my gardening party – disco globe and all.
I’ll tell you what I want. What I really, really want.
Aside from the "zigazig ah" that everyone wants, I want IMA to be, “genre-defying.” Films, bands, authors, artists: they can all be genre-defying. So why can’t we?
In many ways museums have been required to wear many hats for a while now. They have found themselves in precarious places, needing to get a piece of that proverbial cash pie, necessitating competition with movies, sporting events, zoos and other, much flashier leisure time attractions. Read the rest of this entry »
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