MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
April Fool’s the only holiday where you are allowed to prank your friends and get away with it. So if your car tiers get “Slash”-ed, don’t worry it’s for a National Holiday.
Dawoud: My work is not intended to demystify the myths surrounding the Underground Railroad since they are not documentary photographs, but the project is meant to provoke the imagination around that history. It aims to give it a resonant visualization and make that history come alive in the photographic object. The work is intended to place the viewer in a liminal space in between the past and present, and between fact and fiction.
Alec: When I photograph people, I try to be honest about who I am and what I’m doing. Just as I’m involved in reading a subject’s body language, they are undoubtedly reading mine. I try not to fabricate this language. If I’m nervous, I’ll show them my nervousness. If I’m confident, I’ll show them that. If I want people to be real for me, then I try to be real to them.
In the wake of Brexit, the art community is dealing with the consequences of potentially closed borders. In an attempt to move their art into countries in the European Union before the potential “No Deal” scheduled for March 29, artists scramble to get their art across the country lines.
Sarah Singh’s film, I thought I was dreaming… premiered at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur. The film will be displayed at Musee Départemental des Arts Asiatiques de Nice in France as part of the YSL show, opening April 5th running through October.
In this video, Musee interviewed with the visual artist, Tabitha Nikolai, at Dire Jank Exhibition at apexart, curated by Porpentine Charity Heartscape. Together, we walked through ‘Ineffable Glossolalia’, a virtual environment that takes audiences to a dreamy world that is inspired by Borges' Library of Babel and the German Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.
From National Puppy Day to National Waffle Day, there are plenty of unofficial holidays to celebrate all the little things that make our lives a bit more worth living for. Today, March 26, is National Make Up Your Own Holiday Day. So from all of us here at Musée: Happy Musée Day!
Stephen Mallon: The story behind that aircraft was that it was taken out by a flock of Canadian geese that took off at the wrong moment and got ingested into these turbo fans inside the engines. The engines are designed to handle this. They literally take frozen turkeys and shoot them out during testing. But this was the worst case scenario.
From Trump’s temper tantrum over the arts to MTA subway cars becoming new homes for fish, this is your update on all you need to know the ins and outs of the art world.
It has been 9 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook that revolutionised the public perception of American gun control laws. Yet many choose to ignore the spilt blood in favour of defending the dusty Second Amendment with a-near religious fervour.
Mary Reid Kelley: We've been together since 2002, but we didn't start working together until 2008. We've been collaborating together for ten years, so it's been a slow roll towards this full collaboration together. When we started making films together it was just under my name, but gradually Pat's involvement became much more significant and we started crediting him over the years.
Ashley Yu: What is it about cowboy culture and the Great American West that fascinates you so much?
Norm Clasen: I grew up with it. It was part of my younger life and that has made it very easy for me to photograph it now.
It is now time to put an end to, yet again, cancelling plans and instead snuggling under the covers with your heat-radiating beau. The time has come to take off the handcuffs and step back into the social arena. It’s Spring Equinox today, and your 2019 starts now.
Sarah Sunday: Your process of creation seems very intricate and complicated. Can you describe it?
Meghann Riepenhoff: I hand coat cyanotype emulsion onto paper and then introduce the paper into the landscape, in waves, rivers, rain, snow, ice, etc. Elements from the landscape physically inscribe into the photochemistry.
Vicente Wolf: Around 45 years ago I was working with my partner at the time, Bob Patino, with Richard Avedon, the photographer, in his studio, and he said, "You know, you should be collecting photography. It's the next trend of collecting." And it started this tsunami of purchases that has gone on for 35 years.
From artists deemed enemies of the state in Venezuela to the installation of female statues in NYC, this is all you need to know about what happened this week in the art world.
