New York to Celebrate South Pasadena Artist Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley, the renowned South Pasadena artist who had a studio in Highland Park and who committed suicide in 2012, had a special affinity for schools. His father was a public school janitorial chief in Detroit, and Kelley "returned to the school as the crucible of American identity, of values (some of which we’d be better off without), of high and low culture, of repression and cruelty and of modern folk rituals," according to the New York Times.

On Sunday, Oct. 13, Kelley's artwork will completely fill a school building in Queens, NY, at the Museum of Modern Art’s affiliate in Long Island City, according to the Times. "It will be the first time the entire building has been given over to one artist, with a survey that covers almost three decades of video, sculpture, performance, painting and installation, and seeks to make a case for Kelley’s career, even cut short, as one of the most important and influential in contemporary art."

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