Big Moon

“Big Moon” Animal Crossing New Horizons island installation (2022)

Back in May 2020 while resisting Animal Crossing’s suggestions that I should decorate my house with the furniture that you could buy or craft in the game, it occurred to me that I could, instead, turn it into an art gallery. And that’s what you have here. There are large, island-spanning recreations of works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude along with two houses turned galleries.

Big Moon is included in The National Videogame Museum (NVM) online exhibition: The Animal Crossing Diaries.

If you have Animal Crossing and a Nintendo Online membership, you can visit Big Moon via dream address DA-0414-5851-1428.

Artworks

• Outdoors
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers and The Gates

• East Gallery
• Both galleries look identical; inspired by the gray bungalows in the neighborhood surrounding the Menil Collection.
• Main Room
• Andy Warhol: Marilyn Monroe, Cow, Flowers, Electric Chair
• West Room
• Piet Mondrian: Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, New York City I, Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue
• North Room
• Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills #10, #24, #14, #3, #21, #6 (Video about this series), Untitled #153, Untitled #123, Untitled #96, Untitled #92
• East Room
• Nina Chanel Abney: Hobson’s Choice, Pace Prints, Additional Prints
• Attic
• Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait Dedicated to Dr. Leo Eloesser, Self Portrait as a Tehuana, The Two Fridas, Self Portrait with Monkeys
• René Magritte: The Son of Man, The Treachery of Images, The Lovers II, The False Mirror
• Giorgio de Chirico: The Enigma of a Day, The Song of Love
• Man Ray: The Kiss, Glass tears, Untitled (plate 4) from the album Champs Délicieux, Ingres’ Violin, A l’heure de l’observatoire – Les amoureux
• Fritz Lang: stills from Metropolis
• Robert Wiene: stills from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí: stills from Un Chien Andalou (watch it on YouTube)
• F. W. Murnau: stills from Nosferatu
• Basement
• Kieth Haring: Pop Shop VI, Radiant Baby from Icons series, Untitled, Untitled
• Shepard Fairey: Push Forward, Obey, Barack Obama Hope Poster, Mozilla logo
• Invader: Obey, Alien, Aladin Sane, CCTV
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: World Crown, Trumpet, Red Kings, Per Capita
• Eva Marengo Sanchez: Conchas, Salsas

• West Gallery
• Main Room
• John Cage: 4′33″
• West Room
• Mark Rothko: Rothko Chapel (website)
• North Room
• Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
• East Room
• Yayoi Kusama: with all my love for the tulips, I pray forever
• Attic
• Nam June Paik: TV Garden
• Basement
• Cafe & Gift Shop