June 27, 2007

Summer of Love

Forty years after hippie counterculture blossomed in San Francisco with a famous summer of liberated love and music, a traveling survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art fêtes the spiritual and psychedelic art of that legendary era. We discuss its look back at the '60s and '70s in connection with the current revival of mind-expanding art, as seen in the works of dearraindrop, Vidya Gastaldon, and Fred Tomaselli, among many others. We interview the collective assume vivid astro focus, known for its colorful, conceptual installations, and highlight the handiwork of Misaki Kawai, who fuses autobiography with pop imagery. Finally, we review a collection of Richard Prince's Hippie Drawings , as well as new exhibitions around the globe, from Marlene Dumas' paintings in Tokyo to the futuristic Hotel Everland in Leipzig.