Thomas Struth

Paint by Pixels Harry Bliss

The cover of this week's The New Yorker magazine shows a young couple looking at the LCD of a digital camera that has just captured an image of a painting. Coincidentally (or not) there is a short review of a show at the Marion Goodman Gallery of Thomas Struth's photographs of people looking (or not) at paintings. "Art provides an occasion to gather and gawk; Struth observes the tribal rituals with a sociologist's eye and a satirist's wit." An earlier (2004) article on the project at ArtNet Magazine provides a more thorough look.

For those of you keeping score that means we have a picture of people looking at a picture of a picture on a publication that mentions the opportunity to go look at pictures of people looking at pictures. I want to know if anyone at the opening was taking pictures... of people looking at pictures of people looking at pictures. Ok, I'm done now.