The challenge for Frankel’s video is to do that in the train hall, and it can’t.
Frankel’s piece matches our expectations for screen-play rather than transcending them, which means we’re not likely to notice it at all.
Like lots of critics, curators and artists, I’ve always thought it made a lot of sense to insert video art, or art of almost any kind, into our everyday lives and communal spaces.
And up on the screens at Moynihan, Frankel’s piece functions, whether he wants it to or not, as another ad for us to ignore.
But would corporate titans stand to see their ads screened alongside art that’s wild enough to outshine them?
Persons:
Moynihan, we’ve, Frankel, I’ve, —, I’d, Marcel, “, Mona Lisa, it’s, William Kentridge
Organizations:
Amtrak, Art