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The Broadway Bomb: 200 skateboarders have a death wish on Saturday
Published on 10/10/08
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Chinese-born contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s work invokes, according to a Guggenheim press release, “temporal dislocation…where we feel ourselves to be at the beginning and the end of life on earth.” That kind of illusory style takes years to hone. Turns out, so do Cai's works themselves. In a prior TONY story, we focused on one piece in Cai’s current Guggenheim survey, following it from conception (on a visit to Berlin) to installation (dangling over a ramp in Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda). Then we got to thinking about how an entire, museumwide show like this one—titled "I Want to Believe"—comes together. As you might imagine, the answer is slowly.
Click the timeline below to see how this show took shape.
