“Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) No. 2.” by Mike Kelley, 2002

Can anybody say “Wheel of Fortune”…juxtapose some comic illustrations some color chips and throw in the word sex and you’ve got a winner…

Today Karen Rosenberg in New York Times reviews the latest installment at MOMA “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today.” “Color Chart” looks at contemporary artists for whom color functions as a ready-made — something to be bought or appropriated, rather than mixed on a palette. I’m sure I’ll have much more to say after I’ve been to the exhibition, but I do have a few initial thoughts…Karen Rosenberg’s most pointed comment comes in her analysis of the newest work in the show:

The most recent works acknowledge that our experience of color is increasingly mediated by corporations and consultancies, like Pantone and the Color Marketing Group.

Sounds menacing…like a good conspiracy…in fact come to think about it the people working at the corporations studied at the same art schools and studied the same theory as the people showing in the galleries and museums…i don’t know what that means but it sounds good and somebody’s making money…so we’re off to see the wizard…