national gallery, cape town: i think it's ok to laugh...

I highly recommend the Cape Town branch of the South African National Gallery.  Not only does it smell like a nursing home cafeteria, but it houses such gems as these:


creepy disembodied baby head on a velvet pillow in an exhibition on 'Romantic Childhood'


great Tsonga beadwork drawings


these skirted beaded cylinders.  i hope the label was correct, because it identified them only as 'children.'


this monument to SMUT(s) at the entrance, which was especially clever during the Marlene Dumas exhibition.  those crazy curators!  it's like an episode of Hee-Haw up in here!  in the background is a scrolling marquee that might be mistaken for a Jenny Holzer installation.  it's actually a completely functional informational tool that turns Holzer's work on it's head.  daffy!

 

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