Posts Tagged ‘museums’
The IKEA Parody
It is nearly impossible to access a kunsthalle in Scandinavia in late August, particularly before 12 pm. I learned this quickly while traveling there as of late. Art spaces are also not always in the most accessible locations. In Helsinki, a former cable factory/Nokia headquarters called Kaapelitehdas is inhabited by various disciplines of artists “from [...]
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Tags: commodity, criticism, decorative arts, design, furniture, ikea, ikea at liljevalchs, kunsthalle, liljevalchs, museums, reproduction, scandinavia, shopping, stockholm
When I saw the largest rhinestone in the world at the Liberace Museum, I was surprised at my own disappointment. It sparkled as much as one would expect as it rotated on a black motorized base, but the impact of physically seeing this object was strikingly minimal.
World’s Largest Rhinestone, the Liberace Museum, Las Vegas; image [...]
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Tags: authenticity, billie jean, dave hickey, display, experience music project, glove, liberace, liberace museum, michael jackson, museums, objects, rhinestone, wonder
The Best Museum in America
I love Las Vegas, particularly as someone who loves art theory. I don’t gamble but would go there every weekend to indulge in the fascination, if I could. One of the best places in Vegas is the Neon Museum. My essay in The Stranger this week explains why.
Image from the Neon Boneyard.
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Tags: las vegas, museums, neon museum
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is typically the first place I visit while in San Francisco. Small to mid-sized contemporary arts institutions often struggle to become part of their communities for myriad reasons. Some problems stem from preconceptions of Modern and Contemporary art and the inacessibility associated with these periods, which [...]
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Tags: anthropomorphism, bay area now 5, community, contemporary art, interdisciplinary, museums, performance, san francisco
No Known Copyright Restrictions
I can post this image, just as it is, because the Smithsonian recently published a group of photographs from their archives on flickr. They did this while recognizing the fact that these images have no copyright restrictions. This may seem obvious to anyone familiar with copyright laws and the notion of the “public [...]
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Tags: copyright, flickr, internet, museums, mw2008, public domain
You, You, and You
Three things that centralize the viewer this week in the arts sphere:
1. Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf
The Walker’s series of miniature golf course installations looks like a fantastic experience that can appeal to the general public in a way museums often strive for through their exhibitions. This year features a focus on [...]
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Tags: exhibitions, film, museums, participation, performance art
The Exhibition Age
“It is now widely accepted that the art history of the second half of the 20th century is no longer a history of artworks, but a history of exhibitions.” (Harald Szeemann, via Art History Newsletter)
I thought of this quotation as I plan a quick excursion to Los Angeles this weekend and realize I am most [...]
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Tags: Add new tag, contemporary art, exhibitions, los angeles, museums
3 Potentially Amazing Things
1. Dennis Oppenheim’s Saftey Cones at Olympic Sculpture Park.
I saw them (there are 5 total) being prepared for installation two days ago, still in 9-ft. halves, waiting patiently outside the pavilion to be installed throughout the park. Yesterday, a colleague mentioned how his girlfriend could see them from her place of employment, which happened [...]
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Tags: Art Blogs, museums, public art, seattle art, suburbia
Strangers in Our Own Worlds
I’m dying to see Doug Aitken’s Migration: 365 Hotel Rooms, which Tyler Green recently blogged about in relation to the Carnegie International 2008 and Roberta Smith cites as one of the few pieces in Life on Mars that succeeds in exploring the exhibition’s concept as well as the catalog’s essays manages to do. The [...]
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Tags: carnegie international 2008, contemporary art, disney world, exhibition, hotels, las vegas, life on mars, motel, museums, neon, pop culture
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