Cindy
Art to Go: Tuesday's run
Artist Cindy Tower studied with Allan Kaprow, the inventor of the art happening, and she and 11 other local artists are staging a happening, "Show to Go (To Go to Show)" tonight in Forest Park from 5:30-8 p.m. The crew will start at the Kemper museum and make their way thorugh Forest Park to the Art Museum, where they'll view the shows on exhibit, then turn around and head back to the Wash. U. campus. All the while, they'll be pushing "a moving, self-lit and generated art show featuring their own works," a chimera of a vehicle constructed from shopping carts (donated by Schnucks) and snow fencing (donated by Becker's Farm Supply in East St. Louis). They made their first run on Election Day, when the weather was unseasonably warm to a freakish degree, but today's supposed to stay in the relatively pleasant 34-to-52 degree range. It will be a lark; I'm hoping to make it out there myself. And as you can see, the art attached to the snake-cart-buggy is blacked out in the photo ... you gotta come out tonight to see the actual work. Both myself and our new editor-at-large, Malcolm Gay, have written about Cindy; see more here and here for some background on her work. —Stefene Russell
