Building Coachella’s Giant Art
The New York Times covers Assistant Adjunct Professor Andrew Kovac's Installation
Assistant Adjunct Professor Andrew Kovacs created Colossal Cacti, an installation for Coachella 2019. He told the New York Times, “You don’t have to bring people to architecture, you can bring architecture to people.”
"Over the weekend, there’s a good chance your social media feeds were flooded with photos and video from Coachella.Over the past two decades, the music festival has become a kind of unavoidable cultural juggernaut, famously spawning not just scores of imitators, but also an entire season on the fashion calendar.
This year, the monster name performances are almost secondary to stars’ semi-sanctioned offstage pursuits, like Donald Glover’s release of a new film, and Kanye West’s planned Easter morning “Sunday Service.”
Still, Coachella’s full name is the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for a reason: Visual art has, from the beginning, been a major part of the event."— Jill Cowan, April 15, 2019
This post is an excerpt. Read the full article on the New York Times website.
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