Wes Anderson Fan Art to Have Its Day — Make that Three Days
Wes Anderson’s vast, zany fan club seems almost as ubiquitous and rabid as Taylor Swift’s. You’ve seen them; think ennui-stricken, fur-clad Margot Tenenbaum wannabes and mopey, beanie-wearing Steve Zissou doppelgangers. And like any good cult, they wield fan art, loads of it, equally schlocky, meticulous, horrifying, and genius. Now they’re having their self-styled kitsch featured in an exhibit in an actual New York gallery — 100 unframed pieces by 70 artists in homage to the filmmaker’s eight films.
Well, not so much an exhibit as a two-day pop-up. Titled ‘Bad Dads,’ the idea sprang from San Francisco art writer Ken Harman’s imagination in 2010 as a Halloween masquerade party. That first show was such a hit that it inspired Harman to open his first gallery, Spoke Art, and continue his yearly tribute to the cinematic auteur, this year making its New York debut — for better or worse, the worse the better.
Bad Dads, August 7-9, Joseph Gross Gallery, NYC
