Rio de Janeiro has a Christmas tree floating on a lagoon and London’s Tate Britain has just unveiled a green Norway spruce that can receive Bluetooth texts sent by visitors to the art gallery.
It is the 17th year that the gallery has invited an artist to dress their Christmas tree. Mark Wallinger decorated it last year, Tracy Emin in 2002, and Catherine Yass fashioned a minimal neon tree four years ago. My favourite so far could be Michael Landy’s interpretation in 1997.
Sculptor Richard Wentworth‘s work of this year includes ordinary household light bulbs, multi-coloured broken plates and an antenna (to get those SMS) in the place of an angel.
The plates decorating the branches will be auctioned off for the children’s charity ArtWorks.