Big Moon

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