Running for Your Life Notes from “The Long Run”

There’s a cool, off-the-grid show you’ll not want to miss at the Museum of Modern Art.

It’s headlined, “The Long Run,” and dedicated to keeping alive artistic inspiration.

Nothing new on God’s green Earth? Think again.

It am sitting before the living, breathing panels of Agnes Martin, American, born Canada, in a room called “With My Back to the World.”

What is interior? Exterior? Showing the courage of a commitment to show it all. Not just in the beginning of your artist life, but during the middle and later years.

“Leave it all on the trampoline.” That’s was what super long shot gold medalist, Canadian, born Canada, Rosie MacLennan, told the press when she surprised the nation with her championship performance at the 2016 Summer Olympics. That's what these artists do in "The Long Run." They leave it all on the "trampoline."

The “Long Run,” as described in the show, celebrates the “ceaseless desire to make meaningful work.” And not always in the limelight.

This is from artist Louise Bourgeois: She worked in peace for forty years. Success eluded her during that time, but she calls that a blessing. “My image(s) remained my own.”

Then there is Gerhard Richter, whose room explores the mystery of evil, a story of domestic terrorism. Terrorists incarcerated and murdered in their prison cells.  Not the banality, rather the impish, the all-too-human. What are the masks the terrorists wear? And how they reveal nothing.

Each viewer will see something different; we detonate the idea of a universal truth.

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