The Missing Peace

A contemporaty art exhibit about the Dalai Lama seems kind of besides the point to me. Thankfully this show is much more than a biographical homage. In fact the title is downright misleading. There's a ton of great work there from Laurie Anderson's tiny video sculpture to Bill Viola and Binh Danh's photos on leaves. Some of the best work I've seen in ages. Even Richard Gere's portrait was good. That's right, Richard Gere is in the show... Let me know if you're going, I want to go again. "From the site":http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=3861: _Works by upwards of 88 artists from 30 countries in a landmark exhibition that offers up art as a lens through which we experience our common humanity. Established and emerging artists, celebrities and others, have been invited to create works that capture the essence of His Holiness and his mission of peace. The exhibition, which has been attracting large crowds at every tour venue from Los Angeles to New York, has an explicitly moral and educational purpose: to promote engagement with essential questions of values and ethics. Artists include Marina Abramovic, Seyed Alavi, Laurie Anderson, Richard Avedon, Sanford Biggers, Squeak Carnwath, Long-Bin Chen, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Santiago Cucullu, Binh Danh, Richard Gere, Jim Hodges, Jenny Holzer, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Anish Kapoor, Kimsooja, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Michal Rovner, Sebastiao Salgado, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Mike and Doug Starn, Pat Steir, Adriana Varejao, Bill Viola, William Wiley, Negishi Yoshiro and many more._