curatorship
Installment 2: The Female Gaze
Unfortunately, we missed this one on the gallery hop last Thursday night in Chelsea, due to unexpectedly closed doors at Cheim & Read, but it is on the agenda for the next trip to the west side. The impressive roster includes names from Jenny Holzer to Kara Walker to Bernice Abbott, and of course, Louise Bourgeoise.
Prodigal Suns
I met Russell and Carl at their store, RePOP on Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill, and then stumbled upon (or, kind of internet stalked them until finding more) this seemingly outdated, but wonderful website of theirs: Prodigal Suns.
Saltz takes on MoMA
The Guerrilla Girls may have their own count in protest of sexism in museums, but art critic Jerry Saltz confronts MoMA on their gender-imbalanced collection and curation on the 4th and 5th floors, via his Facebook page. More after the jump.
Playing hide and seek with Yinka Shonibare
I’ve never quite understood the concept of reassembling historic rooms, putting a red velvet rope around it, and funneling tourists on a counter-intuitive path through a house, castle, or museum. But once Yinka Shonibare placed child figures ducking under desks…
fans in a flashbulb
Great vintage photography site, Fans in a Flashbulb.
Featuring:
45 RPM
The Butchers of Fort Greene Place
Let’s Eat
and more!
cover me bad
This one’s too easy, and it ain’t a museum or a library, but we’re filing it under personal collections, as we tend to do with weird galleries and such that we find around the webs. The Worst Album Covers.
We want to have a stuffparty sometime, for the record.
curated by michael jackson
MJ is auctioning off his goodies! There is so much for sale that its being held in a former department store.Here is a brief sample of the collection of the King of Pop, via the NYTimes.
more excuses to say “the orient”
While we’re at it, we thought we’d link to this interweb “Museum” of Olde Asian Commercial Arte. The Old Orient Museum has all the things we hate about an internet Museum–a flash interface that prevents saving images and any other 3rd party archiving, embedded sound that starts automatically, you get the idea–but some of the images are neat in a kind of late 90s kitch kind of way, and we appreciate the efforts of the collector and restorer, regardless.
Also, with this soundtrack, we kind of feel like we’re in a lesser David Lynch project. Warning: do not go to the about page with the sound on. And that is all.
Walk around like I got an S on my chest
Nice flickr set of Superman’s chest. We are liking these personal curatorial sets more and more.
See also:
Superwoman on flickr
Superwoman on Google Images
Superman on Google Images
Shaq’s Twitter, one of the most awesome pages on the internets.
Real Life vs. Internets Life
Archivist, SD conspirator, and web-1.0 aficionado Jesse Aaron Cohen has just celebrated the 50th installment of his monthly email exhibition series, a set of curated images and links sent to subscribers once a month for the past several years. Often the material is drawn from his day job as archivist at a yiddish library/archive in Manhattan, but over the years there’s been plenty of other cultural ephemera included in the exhibitions. They are awesome! Subscribe to them!
Slides from all 50 months-worth of exhibitions are going to be shown as part of an upcoming ‘real life‘ event on internet bloggers and artists.
More info after the jump, takke.
