I'm in Love

...with Cai Guo-Qiang.
it's for real.

I've been watching this series on 21st century art by PBS, art: 21.
It's contemporary artists mostly in their own words. It's very empowering as you can see the range of what "artist" means and how the people who do it feel about doing it, and it fractures the myth that artists do only one kind of thing. The definition is broadened to general curiosity. It's all about observation and asking questions rather than a definitive synthesis of meaning. It's rather like a junior high school science project where each person makes their own rules for the scientific method.

Here is a short list of contemporary visual artists that interest me:
cai guo-qiang so dreamy
kara walker
sally mann
tom friedman
barnaby beese whitfield
oh and arthur ganson
{in making that list, it was hard to keep to living people and folks who primarily do gallery work. I think that's why it's so short. rules.}