Mike Kelley’s Chinatown crawl comes to London
Mike Kelleys recreation of a much-loved wishing well in the Chinatown of Los Angeles has been transported to the unlikely setting of Londons Mayfair by Hauser & Wirth (23 September-19 November). The cross-cultural curio, which Kelley found orgasmic, is in in two parts. The well is a spray-painted concrete grotto sprouting kitsch Buddhist and Christian statuettes, while its surrounding, or frame, nearby features a faux-Chinese gateway, paper lanterns plus spotlights and barbed wire. The grot
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