Mars on Park Ave

Bill Powers grading exams on Mars

Since I started at Creative Time in January the talk of the office has been about the Tom Sachs Mars exhibition we had planned for this May and June at the Park Avenue Armory.  Well it opened on the 15^th and Runs until the middle of June and was in fact the best opening I have ever attended in my life even surpassing my own shows.  His work is easily accessible for all kinds of audiences, there was even a lack  of the horrible pretentious stereotype  of the art world surprisingly present in an opening filled with serious collector and celebrities like Michael Stipe, Kanye West, and Cynthia Rowley. Really the work is simply just fun and every one in the Armory for a brief bit of time let down there guards and believed  in being human for a moment perhaps having a bit of childlike nostalgia during the experience on Mars .  This might be due to the fact the works although some being monumental are clearly created by people, no fancy fabrications just years of hard work by Sachs and his amazing team of skate boarding  whisky drinking assistants.  The truth is the show is self-reflexive of humanity and the youthfulness and joy so often over looked in this city and in our society as a whole as computers and finance define us.  No one exemplified this more then gallerist and TV personality Bill Powers who was the most engaged person on Mars.  Wearing a Nasa Lab coat and grading exams of those  at the testing station on Mars.  His glow was so bright and smile so large I believe for the evening he was simply playing as he did as a 10 year old.  My time at Creative Time is almost over as I was just there for 6-month internship and this was the perfect culmination of my experience working for such a fantastic organization.  I will be kicking it on Mars a few days a week until the expedition  is over and I recommend you come so you can journey to Mars your self.