You know those ridiculous and hilarious Japanese game shows, where contestants run around dressed up as, I don’t know, Lego blocks while trying to swim through ponds of pudding and sing karaoke at the same time? Imagine if the twisted genius responsible for that kind of thing also made paintings and sculptures on the side. Now slowly open your eyes… and your dream has come true at the Cartier Foundation! Beat Takeshi Kitano, who manages to be both a silly physical game-show comedian and an award-winning serious filmmaker, has filled the Cartier Foundation with hilarious… well, I’m not sure if they deserve to be called “artworks,” so let’s say “fun stuff which occasionally attempts to parody the contemporary art world.” Paint a giant dinosaur with a machine-gun-style spray gun! Learn about Kitano’s theories on why the T Rex went extinct (e.g., because it couldn’t brush its teeth)! Watch French toddlers frolic amidst his paintings of cartoonish and yet sexually suggestive tomcats! In short: both fun and extremely, extremely random.
Bourbon-Ginger Pecan Pie
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