A few minutes in the Anschutz Gallery in the new building at the Denver Art Museum and I was so excited to be there -- and for free! It's a room of all modern art, a collection of oversized gigantic pieces, meant to titillate, mostly colorful. The pieces are on loan, but right now, there are many many pieces of modern art by Asian artists, many Chinese. The first item is this urethane number, called "Headless" by Michael Joo. They're meditating figures, but headless, with various doll heads suspended above each body. It sits next to a piece by Wenda Gu of New York City by way of Shanghai. It's called "Babel of the Millennium," with old-style characters in hair, glue and rope.
Photography actually isn't allowed by visitors, but I bet you can surf the Web for pictures by news media of "Terra Cotta Warriors" by Yue Minjun. It's five life-size figures of cartoonish men in white T-shirts and blue jeans, all with their hands clasped in front of them. Their eyes are closed, with wide smiles. They stand in triangle formation. They stand back to back with five figures, dressed the same, also standing in triangle formation, but with hands up behind their heads. This piece is "The Last 5,000 Years." The figures are not always in triangle formation, as you can see on the Web. Apparently, sometimes they are also in a straight line. Anyhow, there are also anime-style pieces in this gallery right now, more huge canvases, etc
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