Monday, May 18, 2015

Whatever Floats your boat

The New York Times Style Magazine featured a story about what may be the ultimate in performance art: taking the viewer to see an installation on a remote trip through the Swiss Alps.

Dreamed up by the French architect François Roche (left), the trip
began in St. Moritz (right), a resort town in the Swiss Alps.
Credit Aurélien Chauvaud (tmagazine.blogs.nytimes)

The article explains the elaborate planning and staging that only one per-centers might even fathom.

From the naked actor in the snow, to the cast of characters on board the train and the fois gras lollipop snacks along the way, a head-scratcher for me.

To each his own. But I will say I very much enjoyed the Wes Anderson-y movie that played in my mind as I read the newspaper this morning.