Sleep schedule all jacked up*? Stuck at home? Explore–virtually–the American Visionary Art Museum’s current exhibit, The Science and Mystery of Sleep (alt YT).
What about the exhibition’s visual components?
“It is anchored by three handmade bedrooms by visionary artists — one by [the late Romanian-American artist] Noche Crist, who painted and sculpted a dream bed. Then, we have a beautiful bedroom set from Adrian Lee Kellard, a very handsome young man who was HIV-positive when that was a death sentence. He loved going to church, but then [because he was HIV-positive] was told not to come to services. So he transformed his bedroom into a church. And one [artwork] by Sam “The Dot Man” McMillan that was given to us 12 years ago and we wanted to include it.”
“The sleep research punctuating this exhibition covers a multitude of topics: the impact of sleep on obesity and diabetes, traffic and workplace accidents, test scores and crankiness among adolescents, and the influence of sleep on hormones and the size of testicles (!).”
And the mystery?
“”Dreams are 1/60 of Prophecy’… Like most of my shows, the exhibit is laden with quotes like the Talmudic quotes and ‘Sleep is the best meditation’ by the Dalai Lama, and “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight” by [comedian] Phyllis Diller.”–AVAM’s Rebecca Alban Hoffberger
Other art: Alex Grey, Insomnia and Dying
(Bonus, elsewhere at AVAM! Patty Kuzbida’s What me worry? bed)
* Soundtrack/pandemic anthem, first link: “Sleep Schedule” by Landis Expandis/Landis Harry Larry.