Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Visual Art The Pinky Show: We Love Museums...Do Museums Love Us Back?
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Museums never seemed so sad as they do in the final shot of this video. (And there's some funny stuff along the way, too.)
(Thank you, Meghan!)
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Interesting perspective. Kind of makes you think about the whole museum experience in a different light.
Loved the video. Thanks Jen.
Loved the video. Thanks Jen.
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yum black lil kitties
if i was an art rap star this is like the things that i would vomit in the bedrooms of very important people such important vomits of chunks and colour
one time i thought about endurance and build up i realized that building ups are inevitably dialectically going down like frowns or a muddy girlfriend or my asymmetrical siamese friends sometimes when i was a sad cowboy hunter cat i just get my lick on or mope around the house
please bring me some juice it is always for the skank i feel bad for
if i was an art rap star this is like the things that i would vomit in the bedrooms of very important people such important vomits of chunks and colour
one time i thought about endurance and build up i realized that building ups are inevitably dialectically going down like frowns or a muddy girlfriend or my asymmetrical siamese friends sometimes when i was a sad cowboy hunter cat i just get my lick on or mope around the house
please bring me some juice it is always for the skank i feel bad for
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So, does this kind of attitude give me permission to think that half of what passes for "art," regardless of genre, is just crap? That it's just some guy's opinion?
How very different from science, where scientists can actually demonstrate that there stuff is true and important just by blowing stuff up.
How very different from science, where scientists can actually demonstrate that there stuff is true and important just by blowing stuff up.
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Thanks for introducing me to The Pinky Show. It's a further-left-leaning cartoon cat version of Rachel Maddow. I'm going to watch all of them.
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This is the sort of editorial that refutes itself. It is infantile, limited in scope and poorly thought out. It also reeks of sour grapes posing as egalitarian outrage. All cultures have objects and history they value and would like to preserve. The idea that this is somehow wrong because it is object fetishism, leaves out museums of ideas, science and history. Personally not liking an object such as the painting denoted as "ugly" and using it as an argument against preservation is the worst sort of narcissism.
The writer carefully avoids mentioning that anyone can start a museum of any objects, or ideas he/she deems important. There are small personal museums everywhere. These idiosyncratic collections can be a delight and are surprisingly effective. Also, one need not allow the museum to dominate one's experience of an object. Look at it yourself, think about, make it your own. Grow up.
The writer carefully avoids mentioning that anyone can start a museum of any objects, or ideas he/she deems important. There are small personal museums everywhere. These idiosyncratic collections can be a delight and are surprisingly effective. Also, one need not allow the museum to dominate one's experience of an object. Look at it yourself, think about, make it your own. Grow up.
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6 - Erik Satie is the composer; it's from his set of Gymnopedie, originally for piano but often done with all different instruments these days.
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As a member of the professions that this video focused on - I have to say that it was brillant, and pretty right on target.
What gets saved and (of those objects) which ones get the resources for ongoing preservation and remain in collections, is a highly subjective process.
I really want to share this with my fellow archivists/curators/librarians. The folks behind The Pinky Show clearly have more than a passing familiarity with how "repositories of cultural memory" function.
Nicely done. Thanks for sharing this Jen.
What gets saved and (of those objects) which ones get the resources for ongoing preservation and remain in collections, is a highly subjective process.
I really want to share this with my fellow archivists/curators/librarians. The folks behind The Pinky Show clearly have more than a passing familiarity with how "repositories of cultural memory" function.
Nicely done. Thanks for sharing this Jen.
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