Monday, June 28, 2010

Your ex-boyfriend's mug shot

Everyone knows you don't forget your first love, that the initial rush is tattooed in your memory for better or worse. What if the general public could see your first boyfriend or girlfriend the way you see them, colored by heartbreak or softened with nostalgia?
As part of her mid-career survey, A Day Like Any Other, Brazilian conceptual artist Rivane Neuenschwander has hired a forensic sketch artist on the third floor of the New Museum. Visitors can sit with the artist, who will listen to descriptions of their first love and create portraits that will hang on the walls of the gallery. You can sign up with the sketch artist by emailing firstlove@newmuseum.org. A word of advice: might be better to fly solo on this one.

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