Deborah Vankin walked through the I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art: Prints by John Baldessari, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation will be exhibited at the Laguna Art Museum with Jordan Schnitzer listening to him speak about much of Baldessari’s work, “We see all the pictures in the magazines, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, the fashion shows. If we think about that and how we react, it’s either: ‘Oh, my God, this is the excesses of society,’ or on the other hand, it’s intriguing. You wonder: ‘Who gets to sit there? What are they thinking?’ What John does is, he blocks all the faces — and it drives us crazy. If there’s a theme about his work that I like, it’s that he grabs you. You can’t walk by these and not stop to look.”
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