Is This Part of the Piece?

Im stuck at work in the photography building until midnight which makes for a very long day that started at 8 a.m.. The first few hours of my morning were spent fighting my eyelids in "Art and Popular culture", we watched a documentary about Claus Oldenburg which was great, but i was just super tired. For those of you who arent familiar with his work here are a couple of his famous pieces:
He basically does these gigantic sculptures in public spaces and in museums at times. They are pretty awesome if i do say so.

After class I headed to Chelsea to meet with my other class to check out some shows and they were definitely interesting to say the least. At the Elizabeth Dee Gallery the exhibition was "Ryan Trecartin's, I-Be Area".....and in my opinion "It-Be Insane in a not good way". So i really dont even know where to start, you walk into this room and its just full of "stuff" with broken objects and paint splattered all over everything. Im all for crazy art, but i just couldnt get into it:

The title for this one was pretty great though; "My Dads Dont Believe in Door knobs...My Birth Mother". Classic, seriously. There was a video involved in another room and i guess these pieces were supposed to represent the settings in the video. here is a still:

That kid is gonna have issues forever. This character was kinda scary, and dont expect me to explain the film cause i couldnt if i tried man. The best part of the whole exhibit was when my classmate and i stumbled across this thing on the floor and he asked me "Is this part of the piece?" and to be honest we still dont know:

And on that note onward and upward to PaceWildstein Gallery. Exhibition: Keith Tyson's Large Field Array. This was by far my favorite and i thought it was awesome. The exhibit was named after a field of radio telescopes in New Mexico that focuses on one spot from different view points in order to give us a better view of our universe. we werent allowed to take pictures but here are some from the website:

You basically have this room full of cubes in a way, each one of these objects i believe represents a part of our reality. I like singular objects so this show was really great i thought.

Im gonna skip a couple of galleries cause they just werent my thing, lastly we had Andrew Kreps Gallery, exhibition by Jamie Isenstein "Acephal Majical". The show was pretty minimal as far as physical pieces go, but I liked it. The whole thing was based on a magic show, so there was one of those boxes where the magician cuts the assistants head off:

The cool thing about this was that i guess for a couple of weeks the artist would come in and lay down in the box with her feet sticking out for about 6 hrs. Alot of her pieces involve her interaction, such as this one where she holds her arm out with a light bulb in her hand for hours at a time:

There was also this tv looping a video of someones hands, they were still and every few minutes would clap, the audio from the clap would set off a "Clap on" light receiver that would turn on this lamp:
Lastly she had these two videos that were playing next to each other, one was a fan blowing back and forth across these different sized glass bottles so that they would create sound like when you blow into and empty bottle

The other video was of a seemingly headless musician playing a saw, the music being created via the saw and bottles was actually quite nice and soothing, the artist had worked with a composer to score the piece.

Aside from the fact that it was stupidly hot out today, the galleries were good and so was our teacher as usual, she really is great and knows her shit. I dont think anything exciting is going on today or tomorrow that are planned anyway, but the city always brings you something random. There is a burlesque/drag king show goin on friday which i plan on going to and with the pple that are performing, the shows are always good.