The New Museum's exhibition called, "Double Album: Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer" is something you don't need to prepare for.  Actually, i went to the New Museum totally blind not knowing what I was going to see (my friend Brian told me, only, as usual, I forgot).  So when I saw Guzman's and Shearer's works it was easy to see their references of 1870's and 1980's pop icons.  Both men approach their work differently and yet simultaneously portray youth, rock-n-roll, and the people that inhibit them.  The exhibition flows like a collage, using different mediums to the express how Guzman and Shearer perceive the world. The instillation piece like the pile of mix tapes, the short films using disco funk songs, and the huge collages of tons of people sleeping that Shearer found on the internet, ultimately  paint self portraits of these men who's identity today was shaped by the subcultures they chose to present. Pretty deep for being hungover on a Sunday.

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