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Eleanor Antin
Born 1935, New York The Freebooters, 2000
Fiberglass, wood, yellow rubber boots, and miscellaneous sound objects and materials
Boone Children's Gallery, LACMA West; LACMA West Green (Wilshire Boulevard);
Ahmanson Building, Permanent Collection Galleries, LACMA East; Belzberg Atrium, LACMA East

  

 

Why do you think Antin uses boots?

These yellow rubber boots are ready to do some exploring. When she was asked to create an artwork just for kids, Eleanor Antin invented the Freebooters and posed these yellow kid-sized boots around the galleries, doing things that kids—and some adults!—would love to do in a museum.

In the Boone Children’s Gallery, visitors will find the Freebooters—or pirates—as they set out on a raft for their adventures at the museum. Outside the gallery, you'll find a pack of boots on wheels headed off to explore LACMA’s permanent collection. Antin thought the Freebooters’ antics would get kids more interested in looking at works of art. Do you agree?  

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

A LACMALab Exhibition
Free at Boone Children's Gallery, LACMA West, NE corner of Fairfax and Wilshire, L.A. 90036
September 7, 2000, through September 3, 2001
E-mail: LACMALab@lacma.org
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