The Whitney Museum in NYC is staging some kind of Summer of Love retrospective, featuring "posters, artwork, light shows, trippy album covers and experimental film from a counter-cultural movement that brought together peace activists, musicians, hippies and artists." That all sounds fantastic. But get a load of some of the PR they're trying to push:
"You can experience the 60s and what it might have been taking LSD without actually having to resort to the drug," [curator Christoph Grunenberg] said.
Riiiiiiight. Yeah, boy,
that will sure bring in the commoners. You'll get whole field trips from teenagers who are ready to push past DXM and, given their lack of an actual acid connection, think that the Whitney might actually do the trick. Seriously, they're honestly pushing this kind of thing:
"What I think this exhibition hopefully will do is provide intense experiences," he said. "I think that's a critical element of psychedelic art -- the intense experiences."
And what do these intense experiences actually entail?
The exhibition includes several darkened rooms playing light shows of trippy psychedelic patterns and gently rising lava lamp-style swirls, to a soundtrack of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles.
OMG!!! Why, I own a lava lamp TOO! I am SO getting super high this weekend! I mean, I have to pick up a Jimi Hendrix record from CD Warehouse, but then, MAN, I am gonna get WASTED!
