Poking a Stick (or Spoon) at Consumerism

Mission17, a sleek little gallery above a thrift store in San Francisco’s Mission District, is showing an exhibit that has ArtLicker all in a tizzy. Ryan Alexiev’s mixed media installation “The Land of a Million Cereals” is a commentary on American consumerism featuring pieces made entirely of breakfast cereal.
LICK!
Alexiev creates exaggerated and at times gawdy [...]

Untitled (Aretha) by Roni Horn at MoMA

Oh, COME ON!
I mean, if you don’t want me to lick it, why make it look like a big Jolly Rancher?
This piece, Untitled (Aretha), is currently showing at the MoMA in the exhibit “Multiplex: Directions in Art 1970 to Now”
I lurved this sculpture because it really did make me want to paw it, sniff [...]